CurtisRider

Very small things?

That picture of my car was from 3 years ago, I forgot to mention tha bit!

No matter how slow you are driving, its always too fast with snow/ice, bloody stuff! Slowest crash I ever had... ended up vertical in a ditch, poor car

Is that Scooby really slow or just holding back? Surely he should be right on your tail all the time? Looks like awesome and sketchy fun!

Yeah i was gonna say, that red hose engine bay looks just like ghastly Is there much point me hacking my airbox apart to fit a cone filter in my oil burner? Not looking for noise, just want to make it less asthmatic and I already have the larger intake pipe fitted as standard

I thought Jolfa looks a bit like Jarrods long lost brother under all that greasey hair

Likely to get naff all for it from insurance, better off having it repaired. All it needs is a secondhand door fitted and a spray. Unless the cars a lemon, then she may have done you a favour

Really like your car Dan, just looks so right even though its had naff all done to it! Wish I could be as happy about having a high milegae car as you vag guys, everyday I feel lucky that my 160k+ GM gashness is still running...

Have you managed to confuse passengers getting into the back yet? 'There's no handles!'

Does this mean you have stopped playing with K11s then Davey? You almost made them look acceptable! And yes, silly loud and raspy exhausts sound a bit nasty. I don't see the appeal, a deep sounding, grumbly exhaust sounds way cooler

Do you heat it when you try to bend it? If not, surely bending alloy cold will just create lots of little stress marks/fractures?

Cheap but good wheel spacers...do they exist? Currently have 10mm on the back, would like to whack 20s on and put the 10s upfront. I was looking at these on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Delta-Mics-20mm-Wheel-Spacers-VAUXHALL-Zafira-5x110-65-1-/400315703649?pt=UK_Cars_Parts_Vehicles_Wheels_tyre_Trims_Trims_ET&hash=item5d34ace161 Not actually sure where else to look to be honest, I keep getting bugged about what birthday presents i want and figured some spacers would be pretty cool

With the cold weather ahead they ain't gonna get any better either

That really is rather lovely, that would be one of my first choices if I was after a little 2 seater

Well 1 bearing arrived, and once pressed in the bearing became incredibly tight, I didnt realise 0.1mm would make that much diference! So poverty hub project is no more until I'm next in contact with a lathe... then I may as well finish it In the mean time I picked up a Whyte 15mm hub in 'as new condition' off ebay for £12 posted and scabbed some 15mm OD 9mm ID alu rod from uni ready for converting it to 9mm through Hub turned out to be not quite as good conditon as the seller claimed... Dented flanges from some sort of impact and a bent flange as a result I guess I could run it as is as its not bent massively, but it worries me that it'll crack as there are stress marks on the flange where the bend is...or should I just man up and lace it up? If i go new, does anybody have sny suggestions? Tempted by the Superstar Evo, but after I replace the bearings I am heading towards Hope Pro2 territory and they need drilling to work with the 9mm axle.... which one do I go for? Or are there other alternatives?

That sounds smashing! Ideally the whole front of my car needs doing as my bonnets stone chipped to hell and both my wings have been hit by morons....is that too much to ask seeing as it means masking off the rest of the car vs simply spraying the bumper? Alternatively can you blend in just small portion of the wing if i prepped where the damage is? Otherwise just bumpers fine I can do the prep to a point but it's on my daily car (it's already pretty damn good as i have only recently painted it but was supplied the wrong colour) so I would need to hang about for it to be done I guess

I have a front bumper that needs a lick of paint! Can you do 2 pack? I could pay you in beer?

Why not do it yourself? If you have somewhere local with a press then its not a hard job to do. You have an Octavia if I remember correctly?

I would avoid driving anywhere other than to the garage to get it fixed personally, there is no point risking it

I'm guessing they won't be ditching the cup and cone system anytime soon, seeing as everybody else did that 15 or more years ago and they shimano stuck to thier guns. If the cartridge Deore front works, I may attempt a cartridge rear just to see if it would work. I have a spare M525 rear sitting here actually...

Shimano hubs are sealed, it's just they use cup and cone over cartridges. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as you don't mind tweaking them once in a while! I had a M525 Deore hub for nearly 10 years and never once regreased it or adjusted it...it was used for trials, xc and dj on various different builds, and just kept running awesomely! Even the freehub never skipped which is a rarity for those hubs haha. I Just got a brand new SLX rear hub (the high ep, high torque model for 29s) for £20 posted, I just need to get some spokes and that's me sorted out back for now...

I wanted to retain QR as I like the convenience, and solid axle wasn't an option on this hub as the races were shot! Why would you want to run 10mm through adaptors on a 9mm through axle? Are you getting confused with the back end?

Bore is 26mm (well 25.72mm on my digital calipers) hence getting the 26mm bearings as they are the cloest match. I can put the hub body into hot water before fitting them, which should hopefully expand it enough.... Gone for 8mm wide at disc side and 7mm wide at the other as they were the widest I could fit flush. This could be the first Shimano sealed bearing hub Drilling the Hope end caps makes sense, for some reason they don't seem to do a 9mm version (or I couldn't find any at least) so you probably have very little option!

I'm not sure if you read what I write correctly. I have just a Deore hubshell currently (and some bearings+9mm QR on the way now), no adaptors. I'm going to try using the through axle as the main axle that the bearings run directly onto, with some spacers made up to space the hub correctly, and an internal spacer as to not put too much stress on the inner races. I'm not holding out on it working that well and i'm already saving for a new wheelset anyway but it's fun to try stuff out

I currently have a Formula 9mm front axled hub with 5mm quick release running in my 06 Reba Teams. The forks twist rather alot at the lowers and apparently the 9mm through axles make a decent difference with them, although a pretty small amount. I cant really justify spending £50+ on a front hub for something with such a minimal gain and I fancied something constructive to do....so why not cunger up a 9mm through axle hub out of old crap hub? I found an old Shimano M475 hub in shed with dead bearing races, perfect! I have smacked out the steel races leaving me with space to fit a 26mm OD bearing in, at 7mm wide one side and 8mm wide the other side-a fairly typical size for most front hubs it seems from a bit of googling Now heres where I need some help. Can I go for simply a 9mm ID and run a 9mm through axle skewer straight through the bearings? Or should I be looking to run something like a 15mm ID and an alloy axle to disperse the stresses more so? I have been looking at cutaway drawings of hubs, and it seems most have the 9mm through axles go straight through some adaptors that make effectively make the hubs bearing ID smaller without an extra axle. Preferably I would skip the alloy axle and just run the through axle skewer with alloy spacers to centre the hub correctly in the fork. This is also the cheapest and lightest option as 26x7x9mm bearings are FAR cheaper than 26x7x15mm, and I would have the advantage of bigger bearings. Example of adaptors straight to bearings Basically if i go the cheap bearing way with a Superstar 9mm through axle skewer, i can do this for about a tenner Less if i go ahead and build the through axle skewer myself, which is the more fun option too.