Score one for madness.
I have a new deadline, and it is weekly. This week's is having the wheels and brakes assembled.
Therefore no beer for me as I sit in the office, what a team non-player.
Underneath I am all gurgling and seething, spiritually and physically, and metaphorically, even. I got the doc to give me a scrip for tapeworm and giardia, based on the self diagnosis of years, and the small teardrop-shaped flat thing about 6-7 mm long on a piece of toilet paper in a little jar in my bag.
Experience going to the lab, with sample, only to find it had dried into the paper and was useless.
Great, so the new system isn't talking to a part, and I am suspicious of a manager who had an admin login and broke at least one other customisation thinking it was a good idea.
Nothing much else to it, except arriving home and whacking my new jeans on the brake line hanging down with fluid in it, so straight to soaking them with brakleen spray and into a hot concentrated detergent wash. Time will tell whether they become fashionably porous if you were Tommy Lee 15 years ago.
Not long to get the right hand side caliper cleaned and installed, brake line hooked up, everything tightened.
All the castle nuts got new split pins.
Just into the left hand side the caliper half won't go on properly, and I discover the difference between brakes on a Delica Express van and a Starwagon: slightly longer mounting distance for the bolt holes, suiggest to me a slightly larger disc.
I found the correct one though.
I cleaned it up good. Reall god.
Mere minutes later, it is all buffed and put together.
And I think this is a good opportunity to have a clickable link to the large version of this milestone state:
As it was before...
And then...
And now I am able to proceed with selection of appropriate wheels.
These are definitely country tyres. The wheels are heavy steel too, which would be a problem with city accelerating.
These are each 7 kilos lighter, some will be rubber, but plenty is the rim.
I'm thinking clean them up shiny with black centers, get some low profiles on them, make the final wheel size more like a 14 inch factory wheel...
Here we go:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Bridgestone&tireModel=Potenza+RE92&sidewall=Blackwall&partnum=055VR5RE92TOY&fromCompare1=yes&vehicleSearch=false
btwow aquajets are vintage now
http://www.longstonetyres.co.uk/page/165hr13-dunlop-aquajet.html
For the weekend, I guess install the radiator, bleed the brakes and clutch, shim the axle ends. Fuckin drive it. Oh attach the front drive flange.
Therefore no beer for me as I sit in the office, what a team non-player.
Underneath I am all gurgling and seething, spiritually and physically, and metaphorically, even. I got the doc to give me a scrip for tapeworm and giardia, based on the self diagnosis of years, and the small teardrop-shaped flat thing about 6-7 mm long on a piece of toilet paper in a little jar in my bag.
Experience going to the lab, with sample, only to find it had dried into the paper and was useless.
Great, so the new system isn't talking to a part, and I am suspicious of a manager who had an admin login and broke at least one other customisation thinking it was a good idea.
Nothing much else to it, except arriving home and whacking my new jeans on the brake line hanging down with fluid in it, so straight to soaking them with brakleen spray and into a hot concentrated detergent wash. Time will tell whether they become fashionably porous if you were Tommy Lee 15 years ago.
Not long to get the right hand side caliper cleaned and installed, brake line hooked up, everything tightened.
All the castle nuts got new split pins.
Just into the left hand side the caliper half won't go on properly, and I discover the difference between brakes on a Delica Express van and a Starwagon: slightly longer mounting distance for the bolt holes, suiggest to me a slightly larger disc.
I found the correct one though.
I cleaned it up good. Reall god.
Mere minutes later, it is all buffed and put together.
And I think this is a good opportunity to have a clickable link to the large version of this milestone state:
As it was before...
And then...
And now I am able to proceed with selection of appropriate wheels.
These are definitely country tyres. The wheels are heavy steel too, which would be a problem with city accelerating.
These are each 7 kilos lighter, some will be rubber, but plenty is the rim.
I'm thinking clean them up shiny with black centers, get some low profiles on them, make the final wheel size more like a 14 inch factory wheel...
Here we go:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Bridgestone&tireModel=Potenza+RE92&sidewall=Blackwall&partnum=055VR5RE92TOY&fromCompare1=yes&vehicleSearch=false
btwow aquajets are vintage now
http://www.longstonetyres.co.uk/page/165hr13-dunlop-aquajet.html
For the weekend, I guess install the radiator, bleed the brakes and clutch, shim the axle ends. Fuckin drive it. Oh attach the front drive flange.