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I dont think they left Dieppe this tidy Steve!

@Amos91 solved it! I thought theres nothing to lose in pulling one of these pumps apart, so pulled the cover from the end with the inlet and outlets on. You know the well known fix for the valve, well it would appear that a similar issue is what causes the pumps to fail. The impeller sits over...

I'll have a look in a bit

Progress maybe?

With the headlights on the headlight washers arent running either?

Ah sorry it's the drivers headlight motor that is whirring when operating the washers. With someone operating the washers I can hear the pumps click but no water or at least only very occasionally and only for a few seconds. I think I'll strip it out and try the pumps in a bowl of water

Got a bit of a strange one with my screen washers, they are only working once every one and then and when not squirting I can hear the drivers side headlight motor run when the jets should be. I've stripped it all down, cleaned and trimmed the pump rubbers back but no change

Or if you can get hold of one a 1.2 8v heatshield is a tidy solution

Yep that's a right bodge, get an ad up in the wanted section someone on here will help you out. @Mbeau is/was breaking a 182 recently

Painted my rear calipers silver to match the fronts I did a few weeks back, bled them all again to try and get the slight spongey feel gone but I've still got a bit of travel before they bite which is annoying. Discovered when I stripped the scuttle down to seal the leaking heater box I've...

The centre cap looks a far worse colour match in that photo than real life

That's now two out of four of my refurbed wheels to go into crazed cracks, not amused as I've already had one redone because it was a bad job

Looks good that! I need the mounts off though because I've got rust on the shell where they mount

I think the original finish from the factory cant have been much more than that, they were rusty after only a few years

I was possibly just going to hammerite mine, powdercoat would make it the tidiest part of the car

I'd thought the same regarding prepping a beam ready but the hassle and expense of getting hold of one is putting me off. Access to the bolt threads to clean them up is a bit of a PITA on axle stands too. Let me know how you get on as encouragement to get on with my own

That's my intention this summer as it looks like I wont get to drive it, not overly looking forward to it with the state of the bolts but it's a necessity due to some corrosion

Might be wrong but it looks like the clip that bolts to or near the thermostat housing

That was the pretty side, its cosmetically a bit rough but I dont care anymore. Bit of bodywork one day maybe. Sills are good though!

Quick clean the started applying C4 to all the plastics, well annoyed to find another of my newly refurbed alloys has crazed so that's 2 out of 4! Oh and as much as I love flame red I hate how much it fades! Anyone want to swap for an RB?

Reto style it is then!

More flame orange than flame red!

Yes I knew it was quite faded judging by opening the bonnet, bit gutted as I'd finally made up my mind.

I dont think it's going to happen folks, no amount of DA'ing is going to blend the fade. It's going to be worse on the other side if I leave it debadged

I scrapped some off in me offside rear arch when doing the fuel flap that was consistently a good 2-3mm. I do like UB but only used the spray form which begins to run quite quickly so to get a thick coat I was finding difficult.

UB even after several coats still seems like a thin coating to protect against stone chips though

Not really got around to it yet, Coronavirus and an open fracture to my little finger have got in the way of spending money and working with two hands! I think I'll wire brush as much as I can then coat in hydrate 80 before an epoxy mastic type underseal like the one BH sell. Doesnt need to be...

Stripped the rear interior out to check over and treat my sills again only this time with BH Hydrate 80 and S50. Pretty tidy for a once neglected 02 plate

Great job on the sills mate, never been an Exclusive fan but this is a different beast