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2025-11-07 Weld Peugeot Sills & Boot Floor Wirebrushing the rear left sills reveal more holes as a result from years of parking outside the house with the car leaning to the left & rear 👀 Easy enough to patch over Painted with epoxy primer The drain hole in the wheel well also...

2025-11-06 Prep Peugeot 307 for MOT With the peugeots MOT coming up, I checked over the car. The plastic headlight covers were a little faded over so I sanded with 1200 & 2500 before buffing with G3 & polish :cool: Wirebrushed the decades of caked brake dust off the wheels The only tiny...

2025-11-05 Lidl Powerbank / Compressor My old tyre pump was worn out with cracked rubber hoses and saw Lidl selling this 4in1 powerbank/jump starter/light/digital tyre pump for £45 which seems really handy for kassandra :cool: Works gr8 at conveniently & quickly pumping the tyres upto...

Panels painted and filler pipe reinstalled & refuelled 😎

Yes, the small sensor is for the gauge and the bigger 2-pin sensor is for the ECU. Check this post to test sensor values Stalling when warm could either be "idle bleed screw" set too low (the Allen head screw behind the TB) or the IACV needs cleaning. Check this to clean & configure the...

Welded & painted the new corner piece Chopped the rot out of the wheel well, welded & painted Had a lot of leftover primer paint, so I may as well paint the rest of the boot floor 😅

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2025-10-30 Weld Rear Corner Rust To repair the rust hole above the fuel filler pipe I first need to drain the tank Syphoned out 7.5L (just as the low fuel light appeared) Tank has tiny little specks of dirt (not as much as last February) Filling up at local morrisons for the past few...

2025-10-29 Regrease Sway Bars The red rubber grease is certainly not suitable for bushings cos it just gets squeezed out, dried & very sticky till it makes the sway bar bind Cleaned & regreased both sway bars with silicone grease this time and it swings much smoother. Lets see how long it...

The old one that bolts on the rocker cover? Yeah

2025-10-22 Analysing Rear Brake Disc Rust History Looking back at the brake disc history, this is the very rusty back side of the rear discs after 1.5yrs 7k miles, mostly from sitting in the garage for months Wirebrushing all that thicc rust off the disc After cleaning, note the deep...

2025-10-22 Machine Rear Hubs Straight The rear drivers brake disc has been wonky for awhile and recently narrowed the caused down to wonky hub face 🤔 I hammered the unused ABS ring off and using this clean surface to mount on the lathe Even after wirebrushing all the rust off the disc...

2025-10-21 Repair Wonky Trolley Jack This old Halfords trolley jack has an arm that points slightly to the right, which catches on the frame every time it drops down 😤 Looking closer, the holes & thin welded washers for supporting the pivot rods are worn out stretched 👀 Time to cut them...

2025-10-16 Personal Update: Amazon Warehouse Operative Good news After 8mths of no progress, the job centre referred me to this local training centre through a program called 'Restart North East', who actively helps ppl with advice on job searches, writing CV/letters and more. They also work...

2025-10-15 Regrease Brake Caliper Guide Pins According to this video, I may have been applying too much grease making the guide pins bind unevenly? 🤔 So I best go re-check em 1yr since they were rebuilt. Removed the rear right carrier Not too much grease but the red rubber grease has got...