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At least they aren't underbody lights. :) guessing most on here aren't old enough to remember fitting neon strips under sills. :)

only needs a fraction of a mm to bind tight as a nun. you'll know it's right as the circlip will go in the groove. they will recut themselves easy enough once it's on the road. I have recut bike rear drums on the lathe, car's I've always replaced when worn to a big lip or run them in (a binding...

15 amp fuse. 2.1amp for the phone 1amp for the chav lights (sorry, that's mean :) ) chuck in a bit more for the loses in the stepdown, so call it 5amps. you aren't going to blow the fuse.

if it's binding once the nuts tight then it's binding on the outer race, I'm going to guess without seeing it that it's able to move slightly without the circlip in place. air will move to the highest point in the system, so just behind the master cylinder. when you bleed it, you will push it...

Send me your old shoes then. They've got more life on them than mine, in fact they look almost new. ? your adjusters, as in your picture earlier, have 10 to 15 more turns on them, they are barely even open yet. With the wheel back on you should be able to make it spin for a while with ease but...

Once the adjusters are set and you've adjusted the hand brake correctly the shoes will be fine. After it's all finished, roll backwards then yank the handbrake at the same time as braking a few times to adjust out the final bit of slack in the auto adjusters.

Circling pliers. They will change your life when fitting the buggers. I struggled for years.

Check the connector at the seat and clean the contacts on the sensor (contact cleaner). My mineys on the sensor contacts being gunked up.

I've had them fight back with a 5 ton press on my side, some are just pigs to get out. Resorted to a 10 ton unit at a mates garage last time I got one that wouldn't budge.

Use one of the old ones.

Ah, OK. That one looks better. Spring are a bugger. Fit the top spring and adjuster off the car then fit shoes as a set over the cylinder and fit the pins. Pull one shoe over the lower seat and fit the bottom spring, then use a big screw driver the lever the shoe in to place. You can also just...

Please read previous post, you aren't doing a double flare, you want a bubble flare I was wrong previously.

all looks right except for your inner bearing race being stuck on the stub axle, what's that about? my shoe pins and clips look just as rotten, easy enough to replace at a later date. looks like it's gotten toasty in there at some point though, the auto adjuster is normally silver. :)

M10x1, fairly sure I've said it in this thread but I'll say it again, the ferrules are M10x1mm pitch. also look at the end of the pipe, it's a din flare, so you only need to flare it once not twice (flared with the die in place).

If you've bought hoses for the micra they should fit what's on there without having to cut off the ferrules. They should be m10x1 pitch.

Would it be better to remove the pipe to copy the bends., YES. :) leave it on the roll till you've made up the shape you want. :)

kuprinickle is the best stuff, it isn't used by manufacturers because it's prohibitively expensive, steel is cheaper and can be formed in a press off the car. it isn't copper, it's a copper nickle alloy so it doesn't work harden in the same way as copper which would fatigue and fracture on a...

that's fine, tha face needs to be good the rest can look like crap. it's a swaged fitting, which means you squash the pipe on to a cone to make a seal, only bit holding pressure in the taper of the cone, so as long as that's clean and smooth the rest doesn't really matter. where you clamp has...

Pmd you but here is better now I've seen the vid. That isn't binding anymore, it should rub a little bit. With the qheel back on it should spin easy with a bit of rub like that. Nipple is locked at the base of the thread, change the slave cylinder or drill it out. Don't bother with easy outs...

nothing interesting I'm afriad. having passed her MOT, Dot got a service. oil and filters only, nothing else needed doing. been awhile since I serviced anything myself (wife takes her car for MOT and service and my other car isn't on the road) so I was somewhat taken aback by the price of oil...