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Buy both 25.8 and 28 mm boots and return the one that doesn't fit?

I think that Trophy is now in Australia.

I'm occasionally tempted to get a 205. Is this a sign the affliction is getting worse?

The 60 mm cup front hub has a bigger bearing.

I found a cup-style filter tool and a 600 mm breaker bar work for the first half turn off. After that a normal ratchet handle is enough. The second time I did an oil change I overfilled by about 0.1 litres. When trying to correct this I ended up dumping about a litre on the garage floor because...

Speechless.

Sorry to hijack, but your pic indicated that I'm not the only person with the tin foil heat shield fallen of the firewall and melting on the headers. Any way to fix it?

Nice sleuthing there

When the hot start problem occurs, open the bonnet and let some cool air in. Then try starting.

Hope that the valves haven’t already been bent.

It's interesting comparing the different approaches to driver safety for street vehicles and those for motorsport such as F1. In both cases the vehicles have never been safer, but bnoth use very different approaches based on the differeing amount of kinetic energy involved. Safety in street...

What's your braking technique? Short and hard is better than long and soft because it gives time for heat to dissipate. Every time you go to brake, pause and think wehether you really need to. If you do need to brake you've waited a bit so brake harder for shorter time. Little dabs on the...

Has it been remapped? What’s the air intake like — blocked filter?

If you haven’t done this already, pull out the plugs and take a look at them. A few weeks ago I had an inspiration to degrease the engine. Next day (on a forum drive) the car ran really badly with a strong misfire. It was raining so I put it down to that. It got worse over the next 3 days. I...

I just put SRF into my 172 for occasional track days. It’s the “wet” boiling temperature that’s most important because the fluid absorbs moisture. The STF’s wet temperature is 270C which is higher than the dry boiling temp of most other fluids. If the SRF is boiling then you need to look at...

Dont know about P1 squibs, but some squibs have cruise control wires and some do not. Dies yours have cc?

Is that a horn or a horn button?

Careful with normal chrome plated sockets on impact wrenches. If they break the chrome plating shatters and flies around like schrapnel. The steel in impact sockets is softer and they are made thicker to cope with the hammering.

Download the 30 day trial for free. It’s good and can do a lot. The same database can also run on the Windows version plus with FM Go on iPhone or iPad too,

In Australia spacers are illegal unless supplied with the car OEM. I’ve been reading up on aerodynamics and wheels are a large source of drag which is why they are recessed into the arches slightly.

On the front the abs ring is on the drive shaft, so disks make no difference.

Careful with stainless steel. They don’t rust but any other metal in contact, particularly aluminium, will corrode extremely quickly. As in days and weeks. It’s a big problem with sailing boats, stainless steel fittings on aluminium spars. Stainless often has less tensile strength than steel...

Yes for the 3M kit.

It’s got the correct number of doors.

Glad it's sorted. I was going to add that the only certain way too know whether the ending is warmed up is to hit the rev limiter. If it's >7,000 rpm, it's warm. :)

Does the speedo needle wobble about the same time the miss/surging happens? If it's a 172 non-ESP then the gearbox speedo sensor needs changing. Not hard to change, or expensive. BTW the speedo sensor is different and separate to the TDC sensor. If it's a 172 with ESP, they use the ABS instead...

I'd call that "minty".

Wasn't sure whether to click the "like" or "report" button!

Check the cam timing.

Sorry about the thread dig.