i booked the old girl my 1994 850se in for a new wheelarch to be fitted so removing the only remaining rust area on the car i have done all the rest myself but the wheelarch is beyond my tooling at home so this will be the first thing in her restoration i have paid a garage to do,luckily as i used ...

hi all this subject interests me as in my early days of motoring the normal route was a simple flushing oil which was just a cheap mineral 20/w50 with extra detergents added this was used after draining the oil and ran for 15-20 mins at 2000 rpm then drained then new oil added,often looking in the ...

Old starters may need a wack every so often. A bad starter is more likely to just click and not engage as opposed to grind itself up. May have been the motor engaged but did not make contact with the flywheel. Had that happen to my V70 once, but it did not repeat the failure later.

I would just ...

hi all well just as i was thinking i had finished with the major jobs on the 850 i fitted new rear brake pads took it for a spin and when i got back the drivers side rear brakes very hot and binding its def not the handbrake shoes too tight and the caliper piston seems to move ok,then i went and got ...

some pics i took today,showing my nice clean engine with zero oil leaks! and the handbrake mechanism i rebuilt now perfect!
you can see the start of this side also delaminating,i remember when brake shoes had rivets the lining rarely detached but on the bad side was when the rivets hit the brake ...

hi all well today i fitted the new rear handbrake shoes and sorted out the rear calipers with a good clean and cleaned the drum and adjuster all is good nick and functions as it should,the reason for the delaminated lining was entirely obvious being the retainer rusted out and shoes sitting at the ...

I’m in the process of doing a head gasket repair on a 99 GLT and picked up the head from the machine shop today. The machinist said he had to grind .020” to get the surface flat. Is this excessive? It seems like a lot. I was expecting more like 3-5 thousands. I did see light under a straightedge ...

Hi Everyone,

So my previous wagon is currently sitting in a garage awaiting a used engine, some suspension, and little things to fix around the house. I've made a pretty big list of things to fix, but it wont be a daily and its a lot cheaper to fix this then it is to get a fast sunday car.

That ...

Disconnect the end link on one side and tie it out of the way. Driving it 20 miles to get welded (not sure how successful that will be on the twisting of the bar, but hopefully!) will likely break it completely. Running with it disconnected is not ideal but not terrible for a short time.

Neil ...

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Neil.

cheers,i buggered it up. i just cut halfway through the front sway bar with the angle grinder cutting disc i could not use the handle due to work location and obstacles and my stupid hand just lost its grip and grinder disc jammed pulled it out ...