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It appears I have a case of penis fingers That's from the crank pulley area

Lisa said the car was smoking and smelling horrible smells on the drive home. There was a big puddle under it when I got home and checked. I thought I had fucked a trans seal or something. Turns out I pinched the sump gasket. I managed to loosen the bolts and stuff it back in. Hopefully it lasts long enough for me to find the energy to pull it all apart again

I'll be using Clint if I ever get finished enough to need his services <3. Customer is based in palmy so it's a bit of a drive for them to come up here

Customer had been to two certifies and both have said the same thing? Maybe customer failed attitude test?

5 min easy fix on the churbo motor. Borrowed a tap off the neighbor to clean the rail out. Now the feed stuff fits and should clear the throttle cable

Adjustable upper camber arms. Had some dramas with a customer at work who's certifier claims the skunk2 arms are illegal as they are not notched where the ball joint slides. Seems strange as we have should hundreds of them with no issues until now These are the arms I've had for years for my shuttle, is there a rule change making them illegal ree? Unless I'm looking in the wrong place they should be fine according to this? Aftermarket suspension arms 2.2(31) A suspension arm that is fitted to a low volume vehicle which is a volume- produced aftermarket bolt-in type, and which is mounted directly to the vehicle’s unmodified original suspension attachment points therefore maintaining all original suspension geometry, other than to allow additional adjustability, must: (a) follow sound time-proven designs, and be consistent with the common time-proven makes; and (b) be in good condition, with no evident deterioration or cracking, particularly around welded attachment points; and (c) be of an appropriate size for use with the weight and performance characteristics of the vehicle to which it is fitted;

Omg what a fucking mission. Went to do the crankseal/timing belt on the shuttle Lisa is driving Stopleak didn't fix the cooked crank seal. It leaked out a litre of oil over the past few weeks Turned into a 11 hr marathon Crank pulley was locktited in and done up to 11ty uggaduggas. Had to drop the exhaust to get to the flex plate to lock the motor. Promptly stripped a thread in the manifold Oil seal didn't want to come out nicely so oil pump had to come out, which meant sump out, which meant transfer case out. Transfer case wasn't coming out without a fight Make sure you get rtv in the oil gallery's to pack out the bearings. Luckily I had a oil pump oring in the gasket set Bottom half done New belt finally going back on This fought me at every step. Bloody honda rtv the sump gasket to the sump from factory so it was a bloody mission to ckeam that off. Hopefully that fixes the worst of the leaks. Rear main is weeping and it'll stay weeping as I'm not pulling the trans out

Wanged some radiator flush in the new wagon and ran it, it got hot again. Hoses were cold so no flow Barry fixed it Radiator is mildly worying but held pressure spill. Refit the hose and call it good Floppy mount is floppy

Finally got around to getting the daily reflashed, it has made a massive difference(yes there's no dyno done and some placebo going on) vtax lowered a bunch so there no dip before it engages. Mid range has improved a bunch which was a bit lacking before. Makes good vtax noises earlier now and goes hard azz gee. Both mine and Mrs Chrisr but dybos say its heaps better

I must have dealt with a bunch or useless places. The company who supplies our wheel nuts/spacers didn't have any

I got some metric shank nuts off supercheap and they were a bit shit. Threads were on the piss. Ended up finding a set off rock auto which were mint and significantly cheaper

Oh and who'd have thunk it but Hubcentric wheels don't vibrate....

Installed more shiny bolts and took a crap photo of them Fridge magnet order arrived so I pulled the other rotor off to be skimmed

I'm running evo wheels becuse the daily came with yuck random alloys. They run a shank nut so are a pain in the dick to center properly. Aliexpressed some Hubcentric adapters over as the two places I asked locally couldn't do them. I'm living in denial about the vibrations on the motorway being the inner cv and hoping these help

Had a look at the rear brakes on the wagon - handbrake had all the travel and didn't work. Ordered pads/parking brake shoes as they were both a bit sad. Trying my luck with local rotors - rock are 111 landed for a pair. The "Those tires are super noisy and sound like buggered bearings but aren't" were actually rumbling wheel bearings after all. A quick poke around amayama and the legend or acura RL rear bearings are the same as the wagon - Thanks honda lego. Ordered a set off rock too. Hopefully that's everything parts wise

Installed shiny bolts. Lost the others so will tidy up and see where they went

More punishing daily updates. My genuine eurro R honda shifter lock nut (amayama is great) as my ocd has finally been annoyed after a few years of looking at the shift knob being crooked. Yes the cars a mess

May as well add the new addition to the fleet here. Picked up a 06 accord wagon for cheap off fb. Was a trade in deal and was cheap as it needed a set of tyres engine mounts and lca bushes for a wof according to the seller Because I'm a scumbag I grabbed a couple of mounts and the lcas off a car at zebra. Got lucky and someone had already taken the mounts out for me. There was a set of mudflaps I've been wanting for my daily accord which was a nice surprise. The reason it was traded in was made apparent when I was stuck in traffic It didn't get any hotter than that. It needed a litre of water and the cap was looking suspect so zebras finest cap to the rescue and I'll test it again

Got to save some grams in bolts to make up for the kilos of sound deadening that's going to be installed Titanium dizzy cap bolts arrived on the courier along with the fuel rail fitting

Finally had our container shipment arrive at work. 13 pallets of parts. Right at the bottom of the last pallet was my vibrant muffler. I wanted to keep the oe style twin tips but twin 3" is a bit too rfb for me. It's 3" Inlet and twin 2.5 out I'll replace the mid muffler/reso with the big adrenalinr I've had in my hoard for ages (as long as it fits) Will save up and price up some stainless bends so it all looks purty and shiny

I've had a quick play sroundd with a wood burning and a microwave oven transformer. The wood has to be much wetter than I expected, the stuff I was playing with was out in the rain for a few days but was still too dry to conduct nicely. Or just Wang a few transformers together for max voltage/death and stand back

Just for something to do I gave the rail a polish Grabbed a metric to an6 fitting for the fuel inlet and did a test for with the lines I had, there isn't enough clearance with the tb and throttle cable. I spent far too long thinking about and looking for a solution then I remembered one of our suppliers has a nice banjo fitting Spent some time looking for a low profile M12x1.25 banjo bolt, everything was out of budget (sub 20) Had a poke around on the Honda catalogue and the fuel tank banjo bolt is coated and the same thread and was $5 The barry in me is constantly annoyed with the bonnet rod plastic retainer being broken so I ordered one of those at the same time

Yup great plan. Check it with some electrical load on it too (headlights etc)

Another +1 for fucked battery