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15th November 2017 - Rear brakes and tidying the front

Back to doing necessary repairs this week. Rear brakes this time...

From this-
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And this MOT failure bit-
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To this- 
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The brass three-way connector is the original after a vinegar bath. Shiny shiny!

Did run into a spot of bother with this bit though-
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The union unscrewed, but the pipe stayed stuck to it and it all went a bit curly!

And this was a bit of a pain too. The old hose flatly refused to come off, so I used the hole next door. Spent ages faffing about, trying to get the pipe where it wouldn't touch anything.
 
Braided hoses to match the paintwork courtesy of SAABits!

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Arty pipe bending.
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I've bled them once, but the air in the system seems to have moved round and although there is some resistance, the pedal will still go to the floor. I expect I'll have to do them a couple more times before they're right. Still, that's the brakes all cleaned up/replaced/refitted as necessary. Yay!!
 
Next nasty, under-the-car job is to do something with this-
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Yuk. :argh: 
 
But I do have a nice, clean new grille thanks to a smashing chap on here. I'm so pleased with it, I took the lenses off the headlamps and gave them a really good clean, so they wouldn't be shown up by the shiny grille and new indicators.

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And I fitted the spotlamp brackets. I have plans for the lamp covers, watch this space :twisted:

 

Couple more scuzzy things de-rusted, headlamp wipers this time.


Before..
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During..
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And after!
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Refitted them and broke the near-side one where the spindle goes. :( It wipes without falling off, but it only just touches the lamp. The replacement off-side one only wiped about halfway and stopped. Not sure why, the original wasn't working at all. I did wonder why it wasn't working, so I opened the housing up and the reason was obvious :wall: 

This is how I found it, I haven't removed anything.
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I haven't taken the 'new one' off yet, but I don't think it will take much to get it going properly (famous last words..), probably just needs freeing up a bit and maybe a spot of adjustment.

Both the washers work though! :D

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