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Well, reached 150k this week. Who'd have thought.

Milestone! Literally!

It doesn't matter how many times I look at this thread, I always read the title and think, 'oh, Gary's bought a Mini'

A good milestone -
The Corsa will just be run in now.

Plenty more miles ahead of her yet

Robsey wrote:A good milestone -
The Corsa will just be run in now.

Plenty more miles ahead of her yet

Aye, either in this guise, or with some tweaks deffo need to pull my finger out and get a new belt thrown on her though 55k on this one.

humbucker wrote:Milestone! Literally!

It doesn't matter how many times I look at this thread, I always read the title and think, 'oh, Gary's bought a Mini'

Aye, maybe I will rename the thread sometime

55k on a belt is a lot...
I thought 36k was the recommended change schedule.

I do mine every 32k.

It is so easy on those small 8v engines.
45 minutes tops....

Robsey wrote:55k on a belt is a lot...
I thought 36k was the recommended change schedule.

I do mine every 32k.

It is so easy on those small 8v engines.
45 minutes tops....

Aye 40k is generally where I change them. been putting it off whilst I sort out the other head (still no further forward).

however, that said - I now have light in the shed.



And as that - the corsa got a really good scrubbing at the weekend too.

Dug out a box of goodies I stripped off the Cescaro Astra I broke 2-3 years ago that belonged to my dad.














Since then, the head has been stripped down, cleaned up and skimmed. Just need to get round to rebuilding it.
Pick up a spare fuel pump for the corsa tank, work out the wiring (which Robsey has provided wiring diagrams for so shouldn't be to difficult to sort.

Mmmmm - clean dry man shed!!
Need to sort mine out - I miss tinkering about with oily car parts

Well, got a replacement rear door at the weekend, chucked that on.

So, I have to wonder - do I need to do anything dvla wise due to the number of colourd my car now is?

Envoy CDX wrote:Well, got a replacement rear door at the weekend, chucked that on.

So, I have to wonder - do I need to do anything dvla wise due to the number of colourd my car now is?

'Harlequin' edition

That's what I said last week...

I think that most panels are red - so dvla will be fine for now.

Aye, all fun and games.

Well Friday saw me turning my attention to a squeak and squeal I'd been dismissing for months as a "I'll get round to it.." job.

I' previously bought:

Shocks, springs, discs, pads and various mounts.
Stripped the front end down, pissing about with spring compressors and could I hell get things to line up. So after 3 hours of swearing I bought this:

Clarke 1 Tonne Spring compressor

Really didn't have many other options, so now I need to find a home for it.. Hurrah..

Anyhow, that all flew back together.
However the pads, well they worried me - there was maybe 2mm of material left on them, discs new last July were now scrap! Literally - replaced in the nick of time I say!

If I'd thought about it, I'd have taken pictures - but I didn't

Anyhow, no more squeaks or groans, so something got fixed!

Woohoo -

You'll be pleased you'd got them bits done.

I have noticed this a lot really - brake pads and discs appear to be made from crumbly Lancashire cheese.
They don't seem to last half as long as they used to "when I was a lad"!!

Ah well it's all done now - until next year.. (runs away)

Robsey wrote:Woohoo -

You'll be pleased you'd got them bits done.

I have noticed this a lot really - brake pads and discs appear to be made from crumbly Lancashire cheese.
They don't seem to last half as long as they used to "when I was a lad"!!

Ah well it's all done now - until next year.. (runs away)

Well, next on the list is the rebuilding of the SE head (though, seriously considering getting my hands on an x18xe1 lump and just dropping that in instead).
Got the head back from CAS Engineering, was going to have the valves re-cut and ports fettled, but just settled for a good skimmed face (however more than few thou had to come off, so compression maybe a bit screwy..)

Shed is stupidly full now though.

Well today, I got annoyed looking at rust spots on the bodywork, so in a fit of rage I took the whizzy tool to some of them, gave them a quick red oxide coat and slapped some paint over them.
Doesn't look much better unfortunately, but at least its not rust!

Aahhh - Rust is the devil's spawn

It can always be rubbed down and tidied up at a later date.
Better than getting to the stage of cutting out rotted metal and welding in fresh steel.

Robsey wrote:Aahhh - Rust is the devil's spawn

It can always be rubbed down and tidied up at a later date.
Better than getting to the stage of cutting out rotted metal and welding in fresh steel.

Yeah, bit of pitted metal, but can sort that with little to know work really.

Yup - prevention is always better (and easier) than cure.
So I guess that you have added to the harlequin paint effect
Another colour added to the list.

Robsey wrote:Yup - prevention is always better (and easier) than cure.
So I guess that you have added to the harlequin paint effect
Another colour added to the list.

Red / Blue / whatever is in the shed to hand really

Envoy CDX wrote:

Robsey wrote:Yup - prevention is always better (and easier) than cure.
So I guess that you have added to the harlequin paint effect
Another colour added to the list.

Red / Blue / whatever is in the shed to hand really

Didn't VW use that as a selling point for the Polo at one stage or another?!

You could even get a matching pair of Nike Air!

humbucker wrote:

Envoy CDX wrote:

Robsey wrote:Yup - prevention is always better (and easier) than cure.
So I guess that you have added to the harlequin paint effect
Another colour added to the list.

Red / Blue / whatever is in the shed to hand really

Didn't VW use that as a selling point on the Polo at one stage?!

Yeah, but that was a mass production model - mines a one off surely

So the bitch has bitten again, this time in the form of a groan / creak on left to right lock - but doesn't do it on right to left!
Trying to work out why. Apparently there is a knocking from the passenger side - but I can't see anything obvious - fun and games ensue.


however, 157k now!