Day off today and ive been looking forward to it all week. Had a knocking noise appear at Bedford and struggled to track it down while we were there. Today I had a chance to get a good look over the car and find the problem, id been giving it lots of thought all week and had been worried it was something drastic or expensive.
Went along to my mates place and while I was there used the opportunity to get some tyres swapped over.
Im going to Kemble airfield tomorrow for a track/activity day. Didnt fancy carting all my wheels and tools with me so swapped to my old set of Yoka Prada's. I can now drive there and back on legal tyres. Dont want to ruin my T1R's I use for road use.
Ive not cleaned the wheels at al and they have done 4 track days/sessions so gave them a much needed wash. They were brown with brake dust.
The R888's have done very well, considering they were on the wear markers when I got them. Bit of swapping around and they should do another track day or 2. Starting to show signs of the camber not being quite right. Tony had a temperature test thing las time but the limited track time due the the oil leak ment we didnt get chance to do it propely.
So to find the knock. Needed to get it on a ramp but the only one free at my mates place was a 4 poster. There is no way the car would go on there at its current ride height (As Bomber will agree, we had some fun and games getting his on there) So the front bumper came off to help.
I spanner checked as much as I could see and apart from the knock in the steering rack (That has always been there) I couldnt really find anything.
Then I drove it off the ramp again and descovered that if you pulled away sharply the knock occured. This made it much easier to find and traced it to the gearbox mount bolts (under where the battery used to sit)
Strange as id never touched them when doing the clucth last winter. The car did have some new mounts fitted before I bought it so it must of shaken loose during the last 7k miles of abuse. Still, Loctite and new nyloc nuts on there now, should do the trick.
Swapped the wheels over ready for tomorrow but before I did I had to refit some of the studs that were loose.
I gave the underside a good rinse off with the pressure washer, it had been dripping oil all week on my drive.
It looks good on the track wheels with road tyres, didnt get any pics but will post some tomorrow from Kemble.
I also have a surprise for all those people who have experianced the torture that is the passenger seat.