Another update for you all...
So I got down to the Unit late morning and got started by generally just ticking things off the list.
I started a the rear of the car and lowered the rear axle down so that I could fit the Cooksport Springs.
I haven’t ordered or changed the rear shocks as of yet, but if the car isn’t great on track with this new setup, I’ll order a set of cup shocks ??
All was quite smooth and I got them fitted pretty quickly.
Dropped the ARB
New v Old
After shot (taken this evening before I came home)
I then got a call from my wife... she was about to leave the house so that she could bring me some lunch ????
Nice! I’ll get the unit sorted and clean up ✋?
So I set about cleaning up the unit... then as I’m blowing out the dust and debris from my unit, I get something in my eye...
I had safety glasses on, but it came with such force it blew straight in!
b*****d!!!
Here I am a few minutes after trying to get it out... pulling all sorts of faces ??
So I call the wife and ask her to grab some eye wash as the one I had wasn’t working and needed more...
I’m a massive wimp when it comes to my eyes, I hate cream anywhere near them, I can’t start having sun lotion anywhere near either as it affects my eyes way too much... so I was dreading having to go to the hospital (
again) as I knew it was in deep!
Eyewear or should I say I WEAR ??... safety glasses all the time because this has happened twice before... I think it’s time to wear pit last mechanics helmet or something ?
So my wife arrived and she pinned me down to clean my eye out.. I was fighting against it as I just couldn’t bare it! THIS WAS DEEP!
Anyway.. couldn’t get the thing out so I’m went up to the hospital...
They saw me quite quickly and then the Eye specialist came down, put a numbing drop in my eye, and saw it straight away.
Even he said it was in quite deep and if he couldn’t get it out with his needle, then I’d need to go under!
WELL THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!! ???
After a few prods and picks, he got it out... it was TINY!!
So I called my wife... “Can you drop me back to the Unit please, I’m all done here” ???
Sure enough, with my yellow weeping left eye and a caramel slice... she kindly dropped me back to the Unit ?
I was allowed to play for a bit longer ?
I was actually trying to get as much done as I could before the pain kicked in...
Anyway... I got back to the Unit 1 hour and 20 minutes later and set about tidying up the mess I’d made whilst trying to tidy up!
I took the front shocks off the car and gave them to my next door neighbour as the top nut was way too tight for me to get loose with the tools that I have and I’ve misplaced my spring compression clamps...
Then just after half 3 the replacement belt arrived... tried it...it didn’t fit... tried it again... Nope it definitely doesn’t fit...
“I must be doing something wrong”... clearly I’d gone the wrong way around one of the pulleys when trying to route the belt this time... Idiot!
So I got the new belt fitted, it was tight, but it fit so that was perfect.
Tensioned the belt up which was great and set about fitting things back into their homes, or new homes!
When my wife came down to the unit earlier in the day, she also came baring the gifts that I’d bought from
@JP83
I’d asked John if he could send any mounting brackets that he had with his radiator as my radiator had been more mangled than I thought and it was definitely a good idea to swap it out.
So it would’ve been rude not to mock the radiator up in the bay
So that’s it for yesterday’s update... I got home last night, ate food, then started writing this thread...but fell asleep shortly after eating, I was knackered.
More to come