ThePog

I managed to hook up to my NAS after installing win11, but in a way I didn't understand nor can replicate.

I got the tyre with the slow leak sorted (which was a valve), then though I would have a look at the front struts. These have a flat hardened steel washer running on a fiber type bush to provide the steering swivelling action, and these clag up and stop spinning freely. I thought the steering was a wee bit heavier at slow speeds than I though it should be, although some of this is the wider rubber I have on. Anyway it was probably time. I borrowed a set of spring compressors off @Willdat? to make the process a wee bit safer.. what a good man he is. While unbolting the passenger strut and moving the wheel position to get bolt access the drivers side strut was making some funny noises..... and so it turned out that the bearings were so clagged that the bit actually turning was the rubber in the top bush. I dismantled the tops, cleaned and greased the swivel and bolted things back together, hopefully improving that situation. I did have to make a tool to grab the top of the damper to be able to unscrew the retaining nut. It kindof looked like the nut was bottoming out on the damper thread which meant that the rubber probably wasnt getting as well clamped as it wanted, so I replaced the spacer in there with slightly longer bits I found in my box of bits, atho first I tried stacking washers, which didnt work. My special tool So thats all back together, but you can get a proper flat needle roller bearing to replace the fiber bit, so I might order a set of those as one of the fiber boys was looking a bit sorry... Then it was time to address the gearbox leak, so I drove to Repco to warm the oil and buy some replacement 80/90 non EP gear oil. I pulled the drain plug and modded it a bit to take an O ring rather than a flat copper washer. I did this by welding on a sleeve to create the crush stop and retain the Oring, hopefully this might work a bit better. The thicker oil will probably help too. I topped up the box and called it a day..

I feel your sliding wedge pain, every time I mess with my brakes I ask myself who the fuck thought this was a reasonable solution to that particular problem.

Yea I way prefer rubber over poly, the materials compliance is why it is used. Having said that I would still use a printed part if it the real one was difficult to find...

I printed some shore 90 TPU bushes for someone on here, as far as I know they work fine. Hardness is more like poly than rubber obvs

Ublock origin and revanced fixes much of that....

Shutup10

Another clean sheet wof, what a wee gem. The only non critical issues are a slow leak from the passenger front tyre and the gearbox plug leak, both of which will get sorted at some point. I might even have another go at that 'good' gearbox to see if I just didnt fuck it up, although any future box changes wont get the $200 Redline MTL again, just bog standard slippy shit I reckon. Other than that it just goes like a stroppy, rowdy and unruly bitch, perfect.

Has anyone got any recommendations for a decent battery auto tester? Not just voltage, but if it is actually fucked etc. Maybe this one? https://www.jaycar.co.nz/12vdc-lead-acid-battery-tester/p/QP2261 https://www.repco.co.nz/tools-equipment/automotive-tools/auto-electrical-tools/projecta-battery-tester-100amp-blt100/p/A1004697 Chur

Put 2x in so it is still an 8 cylinder and still have all the space?

CNC routed a box to hold all my cooking stuff for camping.

@Luna Eclipsed will be in chch in his X1/9 on the 5th/6th April, you boys should fix up a meet and drive...

Man I just had the most frustrating conversation with my mother. She wanted a solution for her device charging situation but utterly refused to use anything other than the word 'plug' to decribe either the power supply block, the 3 different usb types or the cables themselves. Then gets shitty when I ask her to explain more clearly, then even more so after I suggested that my mind reading skills were insufficient for the task at hand.

Alex only uses crayons, he wouldn't understand such technicalities.

Like the film based microfiche catalogs etc? Kindof keen if so