Recent content by MasterOfReality

My missus has a 2017 CX9 and I hate it, the fucker is harder to park than my 200 series. Plus it cracked the head and pissed coolant everywhere. Goodwill repaired out of warranty by Mazda. I always liked the V8 XC90 but they are getting long in the tooth now.

There's a person in the local buy swap sell group that has a shitload of reasonable to good stuff on marketplace. Turns out her hubby is a bit of an audiophile and he is constantly buying stuff and then selling it on so he can get more stuff. Like a never ending cycle. Not really hifi but I...

I use OneDrive for my 'working' files. I keep a local copy of this on my laptop as well. Projects that I have finished and no longer need get sent to Dropbox, local copies aren't kept. This keeps my OneDrive space manageable. Both OneDrive and Dropbox are backed up each night to my NAS...

Wow I haven't thought of that for years, remember reading about it in the early 2000s! Think it was Statesman only or similar.

Finished restoring the centre console I bought of Ebay. It was pretty rough. Have a new manual console insert, cigarette lighter, handbrake handle and button, and power window switches to complement. Paint was colour matched although the grey wasn't a good match, the blue was. Ebay special...

My W&B is due for calibration as well. They are such a weapon of a thing. Finished wiring up the reverse lights, neutral safety switches and brake lights. Need to figure out how to wire in an additional switch to the clutch to keep cruise control functional. New floor plate is in, and I...

Well that's the nature of a progressive system. The more you earn the more you pay, and vice versa.

Yeah this one is pretty simple. Out of the firewall next to brake booster, loops under itself and feeds down next to extractors and over steering rack to the bellhousing. The cable manufacturer put silicon sleeves in exactly the right places so the cable doesn't melt. Not looking forward to...

They moved to a hydraulic setup in the VS I think. I had the option of converting this to a hydraulic set up but just went with the factory cable option. It's not an overly heavy clutch to operate. I had a Mazda 3 MPS that felt worse!

No skid pics, yet.

The bush is sintered bronze and I did soak it in engine oil for a few days and pushed the oil through until it appeared to be sweating. Also added a very light smear of high temp grease when installing the trans. I took the tail shaft to Hardy Spicer to have it reassembled with new bearings and...

It whines but I haven’t driven it enough to see if it whines in all gears or stops in 4th which would indicate a bearing issue. Mind you I’m listening to it through an open hole in the trans tunnel. There is a chattering/rattle when I engage the clutch to creep the car forward or backwards...

Thats good to know. The gearbox is noisy as hell too, but I'm driving it with no centre console so I'm gearing all the gear noise and rattling. Advice from Tremec groups is that it will settle down after the 1,000km run in and fluid change. Lucky if this car sees 1,000km a year!

Pulled my finger out and removed box, reset clutch fork and put it all back together. Seven hours from start to finish. Pretty tricky trying to judge the position of the clutch fork at half pedal but I think I got it close. Factory pivot ball height spec is 105 mm, mine ended up at 103 mm...

I’m still alive ;)