I must of had my rack on and off 10 times before getting it right. What's salting?:)

Cycle wings
 

I spent a bit of time this evening starting to fit my cycle wings. All was going well until I noticed the cable on my drill had become damaged near the handle. When I went to put it down it shorted and made a very big flash. Luckily I didn't blow my bollocks off as that what the cable was near about 10 seconds earlier when I was drilling my bracket. I had a closer look and the cable had snapped. It's a cheap argos drill 9.99 that had drilled all of the holes for my car but I'm still a bit peeved as the cable shouldn't snap like that. I might complain to see if I can get my money back.

I now need to buy a drill to drill 2 holes lol

Always the way! I had an old landrover years ago and had to cut off the bolts that held the door hinges on....sure enough my grinder shit itself with one hinge still attached!

I was using a leccy drill in the yard one day and the dog (9 stone German Sheperd) sniffed it and jumped 6 ft in the air all four paws.

It toowas live !

Dog survived never went near drill again.

The other half always used to coil up the laptop power lead,I said "the cable will snap if you keep doing that" two weeks later it blew a hole in the carpet .

what next
 

As the weather is improving i'm going to start at looking to see if I can get my hands on a trailer for a few days. I want to take it somewhere wher I can give it some shakedown testing to see if anything falls off etc..

I will then need to put a few IVA trims on then should be done (after a nice polish or two)

David

2 steps forward 1 step back!
 

I spent a bit more time working on my car yesterday. I have now fully fitted the cycle wings and also fixed the issue with the steering rack fouling the wishbones.

I decided to invert the brake switch as I had it placed so that it was on the top of the tee. I thought this was a potential spot to trap air so moved it so the switch is under the tee. I rewired everything back in and for some my rear brake lights stopped working (as well as the horn). The annoying thing is is didn't know if they had been working before I had moved the switch. I had a good study of the electrical wiring diagram and after a good hour of un-assembling my car (I should have put the fuse box in a easier to locate position) realised I had a blown fuse. The fuse that had been put in was the incorrect rating. Maybee when i had been out having a little spin earlier in the day they blew. All fixed now and the car is back in one peice.

The next issue I noticed is.... when i was driving it the car has developed a misfire. I changed the HT leads and this made no change. Next stage will be the plugs (even though they are fiarly new), coil pack and possible lambda sensor.

I only took the car out of the garage to take some nice pictures to put on here and it turned into a whole days worth of tinkering!!

David

I have a 1.6 coil pack I'm not using if you need one. I put COP on mine so its just going spare.

Cheers
Stot

That would be great. Can you drop me a pm with how much you want and I will sort it ASAP

David

Tightening headlights
 

As I am doing the last couple of jobs (still).

I have been wondering how to tighten the headlights without disconnecting them.

My solution was to buy a 21mm diesel injector socket and chop out a chunk. It took some chopping with my hack saw but here is the finished result.

I also had a delivery of 4 new tyres this morning. Toyo proxies which I managed to get the whole set new from ebay for £160 delivered!



I have also carried out a noise test and my car is within the limits without having to put any restrictions in the exhaust.

I am hoping to book send my paperwork off this week for iva!

David

Hi David,
You car looks really splendid, no doubts your inspector well be pleased with it :) .
I have a question: how did you do or where did you by the material to make the 2 black stripes on your bodywork? I'd like to do the same kind of things on mine, but I don't know if there is another way than painting them (which I'd like to avoid)? Any supplier address, etc., you could give or recommend please?
Also, I will need to have these stripes made in a special colour (which I have the RAL number for). Do you think this is possible?
Thanks you.

Check out 9800 mactac vinyl Sylvain,its what they use to wrap cars etc it has a good life span outside and they do RAL colours.

Decide the width you need and make a block with a scalpel in it to cut it straight.

Hi Sylvain,

If you look on ebay and type in matt black vinyl stripes there are lots of companies offering precut lengths which you just need to stick on. with the help of youtube videos! there are lots of different widths available. mine are 50mm each

thanks for the kind words about the car

David

Thanks for the tips Paul and David. I just watched a couple of videos on you tube about this vinyl wrapping, and yes, it looks exactly like what I need. Now I'll have to try to fond this product locally, otherwise I can still order the stripes from the UK.
Thanks a lot :)

Hi Syl ....the stuff I used was just cheapo off ebay and as for cutting stripes the back of most vinyls have 1cm square grid on so it is very easy to cut straight lines with just a pair of scissors.

Here is a quick video. I have sorted the steering out now

http://youtu.be/LtuXQyAF3pk

David

Looks great, bet you're itching to get it on the road.

that's some good work, nice vid.

Car looks really nice mate.

Iva applied for
 

I sent my forms for my iva last week. Received an email on Monday to say they have sent the paperwork to a different department so I'm just waiting for them to get in touch to book a date..

David

It's the actual test centre that gives you the date.
I recieved an email to say it had been processed and later that day got a call.

Also I paid for the test 2 days after reciept of the docs but recieved the email 16 days after recieving them.
I'm sure it will be different but it's a guide.

Have you applied for the v55/5 online? Mine took 2 weeks to turn up and you can't download it.

Thanks for reminding me. I have just ordered them now

David

Iva in the morning
 

Well my iva date has arrived. 9.00am tomorrow in newcastle.

Fingers crossed

David

Good luck Dave, would be cool to have a first time pass and at least Alistair (tester)knows what a haynes looks like:D and you have not got far to drive

I wish you the best of luck David :)

best of luck mate!

He phoned me earlier to see if I had any questions. Looks like I might get wet lol. He. Seemed like a sound chap

Thanks for the good luck messages!

David

good luck david hope it all goes well will have to have a ride in yours too when you get on the road :D

good luck tomorrow hope all goes well for you

Good luck for the test....I know there will be lots of crossed fingers!

Howay Dave ....ya should be back by now ....what was it.... howay man:mad:

Must be taking the long route home :D

Just got back. 1st time pass! What a relief. Good fun as well. Videos to follow

David

Well done that man!!!

Photo
 

Here is a photo of the car after I got back. The car sailed through the test which was great. Slight problem with the handbrake which I adjusted whilst it was on the rollers and now it's fine.

The car felt really nice on the road and handled very nicely. Now to deal with Swansea. Hopefully have my registration before Xmas lol



And my 700th post! The car weighed in at 600kg exactly with a full tank of fuel so must be around 560 empty with is good for me.

Well done Dave, its a great feeling when it passes.
I expect you were grinning from ear to ear. I know I was.

Get those forms of to DVLA ASAP, and there might still be some good weather left when you get your reg number through.

Just back off my hols, great news to arrive home to. Brilliant, well done Dave. :) You must feel like you're on top of the world.

hey up lad ....nice one.... did he have anything to say about the car? hurry up and get dvla sorted and we can meet up for a hoon. Well pleased for you mate that IS an achievement getting a first timer.

Well done David, Looks great.

Cheers
Stot

Nice one !

well done on the pass