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3 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti
Your car is spying on you. Back in the day when was a young buck in my early 20s (sounds so ancient now), my car had two sockets in the middle console. One was the ashtray, and the other was for the cigarette lighter. Being a smoker at the time, both...
28 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments VitalyTennant.com
Retirement is a time to enjoy the fruits of your labor and explore new hobbies and interests. One great way to do that is by investing in a vintage car. Investing in a vintage car can be a rewarding and profitable experience in retirement. If you ha...
18 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments VitalyTennant.com
Rust is caused by oxidation of metal – primarily iron. Most cars are made of steel and so contain large amounts of iron. Although pretty resilient to corrosion, all cars will eventually experience rust if they are continuously exposed to moisture. Sa...
4 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower
Our constipated postal delivery finally arrove tonight, including my new slider bolts and the Irwin bolt removers from my brother, so having dispatched a few other tasks I went out to have a serious look at this rounded off slider bolt tonight. I'd...
8 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower
A bit of a status update, the AC in the Daihatsu got regassed and hold pressure nicely, and is nice and cool while on the move. It loses cooling sat in traffic as I don't think it has a fan for the AC radiator thing but its not a massive hardship. I...
31 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower
When I was last working on the suspension, I noticed that the cotter pins that keep the lower suspension arms attached were falling apart, so I set to and ordered a box of assorted ones from eBay. The new cotter pins arrived and I tapped them in to r...
24 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower
I've (finally) ordered a new speaker grille for the passenger door to finally replace the one that broke when I was replacing the anti-bounce spring in the passenger door look about 3 years ago. The speaker grille arrove tonight so since it was sunny...
17 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower
One of the ongoing bugbears with the Daihatsu is the slight warping of the drivers side caliper carrier. With it all fitted it works OK, but getting the top slider bolt out for greasing/tinkering is a difficult task - it'll unwind on the threads, but...
10 Jul 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Lawnmower
An actually mechanically compentent friend over today to see about replacing the rear handbrake shoes to try and banish The Noise(TM). The suspicion was that the friction material had parted company with the metal of the shoe and was rubbing the insi...
5 Jul 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Lawnmower
The Mercedes MOT didn't go entirely to plan, with a FAIL awarded on two items. The first was the other front droplink. Last year the nearside one was an advisory and got changed, this year the offside one was a fail because the boot was ripped. These...
