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Attend 1st TIPEC club meet at Haigh Hall Wigan classic German Car Show.

Great crowd, good day and plenty of very nice cars!!

Rubbish I forgot that was on this weekend, only 30 mins from me. I spent the day trying to get the air con out of the 944 instead.

Still at least the Tatton Park show is on next weekend.

I'll look out for you Al the next time i'm in Grinstead I'm only up the road in Oxted.

The belts in the back are for the kids so size is not an issue.
The lights still go up but yes I left them up as I didn't want to risk a fail if they jammed and didn't raise fully.
I'm going to take some more pics very soon, once I'm finish with the T cut and polish.

I've just bought an old Blaupunkt stereo which I need to wire in and I've bought lots of other stuff now I know there's no major problems.

Let the fun begin no more laying under it covered in oil

Fitted a new dizzy cap and serviced the injectors with new o rings, caps and filters.
Helicoiled the bolt holes for the fuel rail as the threads were past their best.

James,
Did theoriginal injector filters come out okay ? i was a bit scepticle about taking mine out.

Over the last couple of weekends in between a lot of other commitments I have replaced the Clutch Master cylinder, flexi pipe and reservoir (inc. soft hose) with an almost new looking second hands set from ebay for £30. I decided it was worth a go! I rebuilt the clutch slave cylinder as well and put some fresh fluid and bled it using an EazyBleed (very handy bit of kit!). The old master had disintegrated to the point the actuating rod from the back of the pedal was not actually connected at all to the cylinder! The slave was looking pretty bad to...

Fitted a second hand starter motor and cleaned up all the terminals from the battery and on the starter solenoid.

Money is not available massively for cars at the moment so decided to gamble on eBay. A lot of horror stories about not rebuilding the slave cylinder unless it was in perfect order almost put me off but I decided it was worth a go - cleaned it very carefully inside and out. Mine was pretty tired looking but so far the clutch feels good, just need the small return spring (mine was snapped) to turn up in the post.

The starter motor and battery terminal work has made such a difference - she used to struggle to start before which was hugely annoying, now she just bursts into life! The small earth strap from the negative terminal looked ok but I un-wound it and found green corrosion on the bits of cable that were touching each other. Took a minute to clean that off and wind it back round. To those with issues starting clean the terminals and check the earth strap, it might just do it!

New windscreen on Tuesday as found a chip has now led to a crack but I have a 130 miles of commuting to do until that point.

Re injector filters.

Took some thinking/worrying about. I screwed a self tapping screw in and pulled it with a pair of pliers. As a side note the original filters looked fine.
I found it harder to get the caps off.

ballcocks!!! went to fit my new clutch,( after fitting my new head gasket set ,thanks jmg) found id got 56thou end float in the crank!!!! bottom end was still on std shells,so my local machine shop has taken up the challenge.....another£500 quid....ive spent what i paid for it now!!!!

I passed that point years ago ...........It will be worth it in end .... I wish I had your mechanical skills I would be 4-5k better off

red baron

car is looking shiny.... well done

Had a decent drive - down in York with the turbo to play a corporate cricket match! Nice drive but suspect I have an sp30 heading my way I will try to avoid another on way home!

James O, re Caps: knackered all but one getting them off, which was fine as i had new ones to fit.

maybe so, ken old chap,.....but it was money allocated to the turbo fund!!!!(im at the champs next week ,i need some more broken carbon to fix!! hope its windy!!!)

Gardening





please ignore my yellow sills

did the heads stay on the blue flowers!!!