The All New, New "What have you done to your Bay today" thread.

I tallied up my receipts

 

Anyway … what happened I. Started it up….. here we go .nack -nack -nack-nack-nack
Have a two litre they said
Have Hydraulic lifters they said ,
Does my crust Nipper

I swear one one day I will start it up and put a house brick on the accelerator and go indoors and let it blow up



or rag the tits off it ..all the way up to them Subaru people with my credit card
I swear if it keeps doing that nack …nack ..nack thing much longer,
I’m going to leave it in a Lidl car park…. And walk home stupid Ken thing Nipper

 

And Breathe..——in——Breathe —-out ——- haaaaaaah……

it’s not helping Nipper … ……. Still goes nack-nack nack

 

Some say a thinner oil pumps up faster.

 

And graded grains make finer flour. Ask @scrooge95 .

 

Yes!! I know but I’m forbidden and not allowed to use sae 30 otherwise I will be beaten to death with my own sun visors,
I only ever used 30 weight in the my type 1 engine’s
But it’s taboo now all the scientists on here say so… but no particular oil grade has ever been proven to make an air Cooley last any longer

 

If one side is bleeding down, try parking it on a slope



You're welcome

 

That’s dangerous

 

This is probably why my caliper lost its thread.. I think I broke off the threads in the casting as the rust gripped them..

And yes I did open the bidding with a proper open ended five faced brake union spanner.

 

Today (first time after replacing the remote oil filter housing) I drove the van. Did a 60 mile round trip and reached the dizzying speed of 65mph in one place. Treated it to some E5 fuel too. Letting it cool down before I give the engine a checking over.

 

Got the old ball joint out.. bits were catching on the ebay kit.. the camber nut was jamming at one stage ..

Managed to stack it all up for reinsertion.. still needed a three foot extension tube to wind it home.
I used a jack to separate the suspension arms to stop the lower arm interfering with the lower sleeve.


And the new one is in.. and triple checked the notches line up although the slot in the joint is quite wide .. I looked under the boot to see .

 

Decided to change the roof canvas, after several cancellations today was great weather…..tomorrow is a different outlook

 

You do realise that an umbrella is almost a better fit than some replacement canvas.

 

What's that clamp/press you're using to put the new one in, Mike?

 

I’ve measured the run around the top and there is only about A quarter of an inch difference, hopeful but who knows. It is one of the “ superior “ quality ones and looks good.

 

Speed?

 

That's one of the eBay kits a "Master Ball Joint Splitter Kit" .. about £72.. loads of metal pieces each optimised for not quite a Bay ball joint.. I had to use a an additional front wheel bearing shell as a pusher to get the ball joint out as the smallest tubes in the kit are all slightly too large in diameter.

And used one of the laser cut plates from The Little Camper company to help pressing the old joint out - its 10mm thick and has two lugs that go into the slots in the ball joint flange. Managed to squish it a bit.. you can see it under the old ball joint in my pictures.