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anglia4

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  1. I actually thought it looked pretty quick in the vids. Its hard to judge the speed as it goes past the camera but after the left hander when you boot it down that little straight it looks/sounds pretty sweet
  2. That video is so cool. Car looks sweet! you must be stoked. Pretty brave running over your camera haha
  3. That video is so cool. Car looks sweet! you must be stoked. Pretty brave running over your camera haha
  4. Yeah man, I'm usually pretty good at figuring out whats wrong but that one had me stumped!
  5. Thanks for your help guys, particularly QCADTA. Popped out the pistons and gave them a big clean up, one of the pistons was pretty sticky but also the dowels that the caliper slides on were seized. Bled the crap out of it yet again. I haven't driven it but my flatmate says they have never worked so well the whole time he has had it. probably because it only had one working front caliper! Thanks again guys!
  6. woah that is some pretty flash gear! My Healing Cruiser has a bit of slop in one of the cotter pin cranks. Do you guys know how to get rid of the slop? will replacing the pins do it?
  7. I seriously loved this car with the steels. Those wheels are cool but just not the same
  8. just third or fourth as well?
  9. Pool noodles are no good, you need to get proper fire proof stuff. Your local race car parts shop should have something, its not overly expensive I don't think
  10. All good things to check thanks guys, keep the ideas coming. Keen to get the bloody thing fixed coz he is borrowing my car in the mean time
  11. Seems weird for a seized piston to cause it but he did have trouble with one of the pistons being seized. Perhaps we will check that tonight before the bleed, make sure the piston is moving freely and if not give it a polish. Hope its that simple! Judging by looking at his old pads that right front caliper hasn't been working for a while, the pads are super pitted almost all over with very little actual brake wear. Pads from the other side were down to the steel...
  12. Balls! Diagonal lines suck for this sort of crap haha I was talking to my other flatmate who helped him do the pads, apparently the right front piston was pretty much seized, dunno if that would make a difference to air in the system though. I've had a look around the piston and can't see any weeping so I think it is still sealing. Will bleed it some more tonight and see how it goes. Hopefully he will buy me more mcdonalds and feed me more beer
  13. Had another look at it then, Found a banjo fitting on the front right caliper that wasn't overly tight and looked like it might have been leaking, cleaned it up and tightened it back up, re-bled and still no good. Will have a nudge at clamping the front lines tomorrow night and see what happens then. Cheers guys, keep any ideas/wisdom coming
  14. That is awesome! My mustang has a needle roller and also has a spacer type arrangement that it left behind when the engine builder pulled out the old one Put a nut and washer on one end of a threaded bar, hooked the washer behind the spacer, clamped vice grips onto the other end real tight (like 2 or 3 pairs of vice grips against each other) and then hit the vice grips with a hammer, sort of like cheating at having a slide hammer. worked sweet as.
  15. Bled the whole lot till I had new fluid at all four corners. and without the engine running (so no vacuum on the booster) it feels good, not like it has air in it. This is what I had wondered since it was fine before he changed the pads and has only gone wrong immediately after. Is anybody able to shed some light on anything specific to do with the booster and any way that it can be checked?
  16. Flatmate changed the brake pads in his Toyota Caldina the other day and since then it has had pretty much no pedal. He said he had trouble getting the pistons pressed back into the callipers (he only did the front, has drum brake rear). We bled the brakes tonight and then I took it for a drive. It seems to have good pedal pressure when the engine isn't running, i.e the system is bringing the pads out and pressuring up. But when you are driving the pedal pretty much goes all the way to the floor. Any ideas?
  17. I would guess a vacuum leak. Get a hose and with the car idling listen through the hose to different points around the intake and associated hoses, you will be able to hear the sucking quite clearly where there is a leak. Another way of finding a leak I have heard is by spraying carb cleaner(?) on the different gasket joints etc in the manifold and the revs will rise if it sucks the cleaner through. (Haven't tried this one myself)
  18. that is a fricken sharp price. I got 2 sets of ebay for about that much, I thought it was cheap as chips haha
  19. I have the classic ford mag that has that article. I was soooooo keen on bike carbs but they won't work with my supercharged setup.
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