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  1. nah, it's not the alignment. The rollers are still in the same plane but the drive wheel can move up on its mounts so when you try do up the tension, you run out of adjustment before it's tight enough.

  2. 58 minutes ago, flyingbrick said:

    Pisses me right off. Even with a new liner it struggles. Yes probably need to drop roller tension so it just skids. Actually maybe I cranked the tension prior to new liner and then didn't drop tension again.. oooohhhhhh

    If you have not used 0.6 before... maybe you don't know that the roller has a smaller groove on the other side and you must take the roller wheel off to flip it around. Or at least mine does that.

    Also, may or may not be relevant. On mine, the drive wheel/motor can move if you loosen the mounting screws, after many years of use, the motor had moved enough that you could no longer sufficiently tension the rollers.

      

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  3. 14 minutes ago, fuzzy-hair-man said:

    I was just looking at your thread and I've been working on the same solution to making the clutch hydraulic, I took the whole pivot there's two roll pins that allow the clutch release fork to come off. Mine is a new one as I wasn't going to split the box from the engine at the wreckers.

    I think I'll try to mount the clutch master but I think it'll need spacing up or the rod shortened.

    gotta love Nissan's parts interchangeability. 

     

    Yeh, it's so handy that the parts just fit!

    I hadn't seen anyone else using this solution on the UK micra mini forums. I think I saw one person with a dirty great bracket to use a slave cylinder to push the cable clutch arm. Another with some aftermarket 'pull' slave cylinder that was apparently not so reliable. And on the nissan engined mini FB page, some guy was saying to just convert the mini to cable clutch cause it's "simpler".

  4. 2 minutes ago, Kerry-TGI said:

    @cletus I've seen this but am a bit confused about what it is actually stating

    What does it mean "wheel rim above horizontal plane"?

    The way I read it is... Only the tread on the top half of the tire can't stick out past the guard, but the tread on the bottom half can. So you could have loads of negative camber and be all good.

  5. 6 minutes ago, Metalhead96 said:

    I measure a piece I cut out and it was 1.2mm thick, would it be okay using something slightly thinner or does it not matter too much and is just easier to work with. 

    Also cheers for the feedback man, will definitely change up my plan a bit

    Use the same thickness as what you are removing, makes the welding easier. 

    Watch all of Fitzee's Fabrications on youtube. ....But he does like to use thicker steel so he doesn't have to worry about making it too thin when grinding back welds.

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  6. On my way over the Remutakas this morning. I saw a YELLOW CAR. The policeman standing beside probably would not have been pleased if I stopped and got my phone out...

    Not to scale... but the orientation of the vehicle is correct.

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  7. 1 hour ago, BiTurbo228 said:

    Here's a question you've probably already considered, but how different is the geometry of your shiny new machined steering arm to that of the factory power steering dropped arms with the balljoint fitted to the opposite side of them...

     

    From the pic on your thread it looks like you've got manual ones on your car.

    I did consider it. I did try, not very hard, to get some to measure.

    The center of the balljoint needs to be about here for minimal bumpsteer. So I don't think they would drop enough. To 'flip' the balljoint, I would have to use a through-bolt and a rod end bearing instead of a factory balljoint. I'd rather use a factory balljoint for longevity. AFAIK the rules don't allow you to use an insert type thing to reverse the taper. You could ream the taper to reverse it, but then the hole would be HUGE and there won't be much material left around the hole.

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  8. 12 hours ago, SOHC said:

    You can make tapperd holes by cutting the end off an old tie rod end and then drill a hole in the arm to the bolt size and heat it orange hot and drive it in. 

    I've got no bottles for the OxyAcetylene so I am incapable of making it orange hot. But anyway, the Car Constructors manual specifies that the steering arm balljoint taper is to be reamed.

  9. I have some doors in a similar state to yours. My plan is to scrape and vacuum/compressed air blast as much of the loose stuff out as I can. Then make a water tight trough thing just big enough to place the bottom of the door in. Then fill it with a chelation rust remover like Metal rescue or Evapo-rust, enough to cover the seam. Then leave it for as long at it needs to make the rust go away. It doesn't eat the metal, so you can just leave it for ages.

    This stuff really does work. But it does get used-up after a few uses.

    Wash it out with water, then heat it up so it's 100% dry, then flood the area with epoxy. Later,once the door is painted, probably put some cavity wax in there too.

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  10. So work gave me some Repco gift vouchers.... #PROBABLYNOTGETTINGAPAYRISETHISYEAR

    Does anyone have any experience with the spray guns they sell? Are they okay, or should I not bother?

    I need something to spray epotec408 (>1.8mm nozzle I think). And an as yet undecided top coat, possibly 2k.

  11. Was that Howat Engineering in Lower Hutt you used? What did he charge you for cutting the splines? 

    ....I've got some CV shafts I need to get shortened and was planning to go see Brian about it eventually. 

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