Rusty Westy - My Diary

[16vmini]

ok , not quite dark yet .. but i had to try it ....

closed position :


open position :

[lloydy]

Am I allowed to claim it back?

ok , got around to fitting last rear camber adjustment shim , then put all adaptors back on and fitted alloys



again , i painted alloys , so look ok from a distance .. but up close they are not brill ... but hey .. who cares .. i dont !

sadly my sliding door now touches the alloys again ! grrrr , as the shim has brought the wheel out a bit .. also now i have my nice solid sliding door on that dont help.

so looks like i might have to mod the sliding door AGAIN !

Matt

[Cyrus]

ok , not quite dark yet .. but i had to try it ....

closed position :


open position :

It looks like a giant ghost detector thing out of ghostbusters.



What's it like in the dark?

[16vmini]

popped down to west wittering at weekend ,







then popped over to east wittering where you can stay in the carpark for the night for free !







just remember .. dont stay parked near the front of the carpark . as at 5am the surfers arrive !!!!

but it was free.,..

[16vmini]

another 12 months MOT this morning ... sailed through ... nice

Matt

[Cyrus]

another 12 months MOT this morning ... sailed through ... nice

Matt

Great

[Plasticman]

good one matt, i see your cooking on the kerb a few year back we were heading up north to a salvage yard (architectural) and stopped in a newly surfaced layby off the A1 and i went and lit a charcoal barbie on the tarmac bit , cooked our food well but set the tarmac smaouldering burning . we moved on.....sharpish as it stunk
mm

[16vmini]

went to new forest yesterday , just got to forest , and throttle pedal linkage broke !!

had to bodge with duck tape , allan key , and umbrella ...







once home today ( 3 hour drive home like it ! was not going to all RAC ,or cancel my weekend away

problem :



my planned fix



all welded up , throttle pedal was supose be to held on with pop rivets.. but used nuts and bolts instead....

all seems ok now . will give it a drive to work tomorrow and see how it goes...

thanks to Rob from new forrest , as he tried to find me a part so i could fix it there.

regards

Matt

[ninja.turtle007]

Am I allowed to claim it back?

I have a rusty Westy for £2000 if you want one!!

[16vmini]

ok new something big ish had to go at some point , went up north for weekend , and one way back down a1 , the clutch started to slip.

un-known how long its been in there , so better to go now then when we go for our 3 week trip around UK.

order in with brickwerks .. should arrive tomorrow .. not sure if i will do it tomorrow , or wait till thursaday .. update when i do.

also purchased a freeview receiver for iphone/ipad .. tested that out at weekend and worked quite well.

Matt

[Cyrus]

Were you over hastings/bexhill area last week? A red west drove past me looked similar to urs.

[16vmini]

new clutch arrived from brickwerks ,

found out it was the main oil seal that had gone , as when i split the gearbox oil came out .. had a few dodgy bolts , but got it out





new clutch fitted , new seal , new bearing ... new bolts lol ... back together and driving again ...

[16vmini]

just changed rear wheel bearing today ... had worse jobs to do .. had to nip to screwfix to get a circlip pliers ... but apart from that
all went well ...

no more dodgy noises ! lol

AFN conversion next weekend ! cant wait

off to woburn tomorrow night , my kid is a keeper for the day for her birthday


Matt

[Almound]

NIce forum ..........But i have some Information about temporary garage .
I will send its detail soon .Hope its help you .

[1664]

NIce forum ..........But i have some Information about temporary garage .
I will send its detail soon .Hope its help you .

here we bluddy go again

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