MartMini
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i've done a fair bit of mig welding on cars, and i can say it definitely can be rewarding.
Especially when you get good, clean, consistant welds, you can look back on your work and see how good it is/improved.
Proper tig welding gives most mechanics the horn
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I never touched the brakes? I don't meant to be harsh mate, but the guy you've got working on your car is a f**king retard. He spent ages on the phone telling me the dump valve was leaking, it's a f**king turbo diesel :/
Is he an apprentice by any chance?
had this on fb the other day. bloke was like 'you could still fit one to a diesel'. trying to explian that theres virtually no backpressure due to not having a throttle valve, so they'd be no benefit, and no backpressure to activate the dump valve
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Most people currently do it by quoting a reply, which leads to massive threads of just quotes.
I think its a good idea too.
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i dont see how they're going to sell it on/make any money out of it. Trials is such a small world, its going to be found quick enough!
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I then went for a drive, apart from the remap I would say hands down it is the best mod i've done so far. Absolutely love it!!
When you put your foot down now the power is just instantly there, you get more road / engine noise and it feels and sounds f**king amazing when all 182 horses are alive
Everything feels so much tighter.It vibrates a tad bit more at idle but as before when I did my last car, it just feels like a more eager vibration like it just wants to go. So so happy with it.
Anyway heres some pics I took. Needs lowering so bad I know
The vibrations will settle. Last two cars i used polybush engine stabliser mounts took a few thousand miles to properly settle in.
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i had this on my front brake. i ended up putting pressure on the caliper away from the frame as i tightened up the bolts.
Just managed to make it clear.
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i like it, even with the seat on. but whats going on with that bb looks really offset, dont ive seen that before. or at least i havent noticed it before
better pedal offset, means your standing more central over the bike.
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You know this removing the tax disc thing, does that mean on the 1st of October I can just throw away my tax disc?
My dad was saying that i'll have to display it until it runs out? He bullshits alot though so would like some confirmation!
dan, just found this.
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in the last week on my road i saw two cars clamped and tow'd because of no tax.
I aint risking that shit
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you'll find it'll be one of the two small screws, best off looking online for the pump type and find a breakdown.
They dont expect people who buy haynes manuals to be stripping down injection pumps!
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Anybody who may good with diesels/throttle bodies be able to identify what the circled screws do?
first picture, think the big black button is a primer pump. one of the two little screws will properly be idle control
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rb did a design a while ago with ball bearings, dont think the engagement will take the abuse!
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Nice to see you getting stuck in already Michael.
My new ball joints has cured the loose feeling! I now have confidence when driving it around bends
Weirdly enough there was no vertical play in the sockets literally what so ever. It's just when spinning it in its socket it felt notchy, like it would get to a certain point fairly smooth then hit a bit of friction then feel like notchy if that makes sense.
there will be a big difference between the amount of play in your feeble hands, and when you have the entire car weight on it through a corner
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Nice one man. Hoping this will be the end of my sloppiness I'm the steering.
If the ball joints are shagged, it means the tracking could still be out, as it'd have been set incorrectly
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you could have a bad batch? like i said, all the pictures ive seen is of saint calipers snapping clean off themselves.
Just because one monkey broke a set of good forks running a savigly good front brake wouldnt stop me from buying them
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Removed my DRLs yesturday and fitted some fog lights. Thought id have to replace the bumper, but after finding one at scrap yard, saw the standard bumper had all the fog light mounts as standard.
The standard bumper even has the guidlines for where you need to cut, one sharp knife and a dremel later:
Fog light fitted ( scrap yard ones, will replace with new ones soon):
Bumper view:
Had a quick mock up with some HID's i had lying around, definatly think i'll be getting the right bulbs for the difference in light output!
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Just because the surface looks okay, doesnt mean the forks arnt cracked/weakened under the surface.
All ive seen on TF for the last week is Saint calipers cracked/snapped due to the force they create, it really isnt supprising they've caused the forks to snap.
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just seen your running a front saint.
Of course your going to snap the fork
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one doesnt check his/her disc mounts every ride.couldve been cracked for a while without you noticing.
does the surface inside the crack have shiny areas or different coloured zones?would be evidence for it being cracked for a while
This. If the metal is a dull colour, means its been cracked for a while. the shiny parts are fresh cracks.
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Any move to front are going to stress the f**k out of a set of forks, its not really that impressive?
I didn't have a clue either then. Thanks. Will check mine every once in a while then.
The disk brace spreads the load, but generally if they snap, its just above the top of the disk mount.
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It's the disc version you knob. Don't get cocky.
im the cocky one? i dont see me making a topic about breaking a set of forks
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You don't really have a clue do you?
snapped at the disk mount area, generally if disk forks snap, thats where they go....
Trialtech only recalled the HS33 version:
http://www.tartybikes.co.uk/news/trialtech_fork_product_recall/u248.html
ahh, didnt read it fully
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you mean the new ones, where trialtech recalled them?
ooo, beter watch out, big man!
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It does a bit, but its still a million times better than i can do with a mig