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Thats the one @Touring_Rob i used a carbide burr and die grinder.
I did find wet road use was skitty with so much camber @npt was a bit overkill. Fine for track if the tyre can handle it.
Managed an hr today.
Built up the new drivers hub with new swivel bearing. The insert was reused as in ok condition.
Quick lick of paint.
Grease bolts fitted. These are a great bit of kit and make maintenance easy, The swivel bearings arent really sealed properly so the grease gets washed...
Cheers for sorting the cover out mate appreciated.
I reckon these are the original suspension bits. Shocks seemed to work ok too but i couldnt fit new springs to them. Luckily its just bolt on rusty parts floorpan looks great.
Go fast on a budget ;) We used to call our mods PMT Development - "Pikey Motor Tuning"
Renault even elongated the holes on the struts on the R5gtt cup racers for up to -3deg negative camber from memory. Also you were allowed to hammer the tca bushes along for more castor. Oldskool way before...
Elongate the top bolt holes on the strut to suit negative camber required. I didnt even use camber bolts, used oem. Torque to spec and they wont budge a mm.
Passenger side took me about 2.5 hours after pissing about with the driveshaft.
Started drivers side. Everything fooked and proving hard work. Both cv boots shot, anti rotation link shot, droplink shot, balljoint shot, play in wheel bearing, tie rod and outer shot, bushes shot. Nothing...
Started last Sunday. Passneger side first. Overall this side was OK no play but well worn.
Very rusty
All binned, will drop subframe to change arms and rack later lets get top done.
Note cv grease. No boot clip. Moved cv joint and it fell off as no retaining clip on shaft. So dropped gear oil...
Work continues.
Assume position.
Oil leak fixed. Nice chemi metal bodge done by somebody in the past. New return fitted.
Goodies started arriving last week. Cooksport springs, oem ren r26 front shocks, oem ren tie rods. Also have new drop links, new delphi trackrod ends, new lower arms etc not...
That will explain not needing to let any air out! I only needed to take a couple of psi out of o/s rear on both. I dont think the o/s rear was doing a lot.
New belts dont cause any vibration. Is engine misfiring?
Id loosen off the top mount to bodyshell bolts, let it idle and settle into place then retorque.
Its very hard to diagnose stuff like this without looking, but personally id be looking at the top engine mount as its been off during cambelt swap, and look at lower dogbone and gearbox mount.
No point in replacing the injectors unless its misfiring, run some injector cleaner. Id be careful...
Quick half hour on it on Monday.
Exhaust was hanging low and noted the middle rubber had snapped. Had a gen renault centre hanger in stock that i bought years ago for the blue meg but did not use so fitted that.
Front exhaust clamp was loose too and blowing. Repositioned the clamp and...
CSF update.
Csf done and pretty successfull overall, the stars finally aligned. 600 miles on the trip, 3x tanks of fuel and 4x track sessions on the pm.
Sat ready to go with the Extra.
I was anticipating a 2 lap wonder and something to go wrong so had datalogger in initially for first few...