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6th March 2012, 10:04
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#81
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Cheers sexy, I have no idea what I'm doing!
This is the first car I've ever actually done anything to!
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9th March 2012, 10:04
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#82
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Frequent Poster
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Cheshire
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Car(s): Nothing fun anymore....
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I know its off your list but I ordered 4 of these on Weds and they have just arrived.
Ill be using two at the front for brake ducts and two at the back for feeding some air into the engine bay.
They are about 12" when compressed and 36" at full stretch. Can be bent and they stay rigid.
Il let you know how I get on with them!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2206669377...ht_1454wt_1174
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14th March 2012, 16:19
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#83
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Saxperience Post Whore
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Well my nightmare continues, possibly due to a lack of tools, and talent, or possibly both.
I got these
I did this
2 went all the way in, 2 ended up about here
I had a cunning plan
I did this
I cried a bit, and rang my mate to lend me his big boys vice, I plan on pressing the rest in using the socket for the prortuding bit to slide into
FML 
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14th March 2012, 16:27
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#84
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 6,640
Car(s): Integra DC5R & VTS
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Should have broke out the lube. 
They must be a pretty tight fit. My Powerflex ones went in with a few taps of a hammer.
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Originally Posted by saxo_ron
Anyhow I only live my life a cup of tea at a time and im all out so im off to boil the kettle
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14th March 2012, 16:27
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#85
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Bournemouth
Posts: 15,289
Car(s): '04 VW Transporter.
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See this is why I pay others to struggle..
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14th March 2012, 16:41
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#86
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there is literally no give in them, harder than nylon they be
they make a sort of "tink" noise when you tap them against eachother
Gibbo, it's only a matter of time before I take the beam to the "bigger boys" and they do it in like 30 seconds with their tool of win
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14th March 2012, 16:47
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#87
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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That bolt looks like B&Q quality....which is why it snapped! A nice 12.9 Cap Screw would have probably worked! 
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14th March 2012, 18:01
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#88
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L-plater
Join Date: Mar 2012
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looks like your havin fun!
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14th March 2012, 19:13
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#89
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Quote:
Originally Posted by qrty
That bolt looks like B&Q quality....which is why it snapped! A nice 12.9 Cap Screw would have probably worked! |
Lol, you got me!
It was big and mentally so I thought it would work
What's a 12.9 cap screw?
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19th March 2012, 15:52
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#90
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Okay, so on friday I had borrowed a big vice, and a bar to help me get the last 2 bushes in.
How could I fail!
well, in an epic way really, nothing happened.
so I got annoyed, held the beam in the vice, and smashed them in with a hammer!
WIN!
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19th March 2012, 16:41
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#91
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Saxperience Hardcore!
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Bournemouth
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If in doubt smash it harder..!
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20th March 2012, 09:41
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#92
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MiniGibbo
If in doubt smash it harder..!
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why did that make me think of transexuals?
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20th March 2012, 10:01
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#93
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MuZiZZle
Lol, you got me!
It was big and mentally so I thought it would work
What's a 12.9 cap screw?
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Basically a High Tensile bolt!
Read this if you want to know a bit more! 
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22nd March 2012, 12:57
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#94
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Saxperience Post Whore
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Well I've just been to collect the following from Citroen:
4 crossmember bolts
4 matching nuts
1 small washer
2 large washers
£41!
Damn you Citroen!
However the existing ones have been on for a decade and I have moved to group A bushes so I thought it was a good plan!
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26th March 2012, 09:13
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#95
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well, we managed to get the rear beam back on, which was nice!
Woo!
Baker BM bushes, woo!
Whapped some new rear discs on, wheels on and out of the garage eventually!, woo!
Got almost all of the rear brake pipes and lines sorted, but I'm missing one of the clips that joins the flexi to the hard pipe, so I couldn't fill and bleed the brakes, 4 motor factors ater and no joy!
FML!
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26th March 2012, 19:33
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#96
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Done your ducts yet?
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28th March 2012, 08:26
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#97
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Saxperience Post Whore
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vtectransplant
Done your ducts yet?
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you're obsessed lad!
I've got small brakes to cool, you appear to have an engine in your boot!
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28th March 2012, 08:38
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#98
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I HATE those bushes haha
I used some lube and a big hammer; worked a treat
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28th March 2012, 08:43
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#99
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jage
I HATE those bushes haha
I used some lube and a big hammer; worked a treat |
how do you find them mate? mine's not a daily so that's a bonus!
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28th March 2012, 19:15
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#100
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MuZiZZle
you're obsessed lad!
I've got small brakes to cool, you appear to have an engine in your boot!
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lol! 
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