Today i have removed the O/S/F hub carrier to change the bearing. DG currently is sitting in the cave with one leg in the air. 
Started the horrible job of removing the old adhesive.... I hate this, I swore last time I would never do it again.... 9months later boom! Sat here again...
But atleast I have company this time!
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A few days late posting this;
changed the battery; last thursday I left off work and tried to start MV51 and it didn't fire up, my MP3 player has a voltage reading mode and it said <11v, as MV51 is auto I couldn't push-start so I kept cranking, slow but after ish-40 seconds it caught and I got home.
ECP had one of their usual discounts on batteries so I ordered a duracell 72/660 which arrived Tuesday.
meantime the charger was attached and then realised it's a serviceble battery and the electrolyte was a little below the electrode tops in all cells. Never mind.
all been OK except the voltage was dropping between uses.
took out old battery and it's not that old, has 2014-2017 printed for marking the fitting date; Dad's 2000-W Mondeo zetec ghia estate was on its original battery when he sold it at 14 YO.
Picked up one of those £40 halfords mini tool kits today, nice size to keep in the boot!
As the march of the auto industry heads toward an appliance-repair-dispose culture, I think that anyone driving a 20-year-old car should carry a basic toolkit and have an interest in knowing how to at least cure reasonably-repairable-roadside things. T carries a massive kit in her Tomcat and I have two mixed sets in Tiger, as well as some commonly-failing spare parts, (a coilpack for example).
Think about it; a Cougar is the modern-day equivalent of a Triumph Spitfire still rolling around in the mid-80s. A spare rotor-arm and a fanbelt in the boot would've been pretty normal.
Though I mean obviously an RAC membership is kind of sensible too.
PRANGED IT
well my son did. He's been provisional driver for a while so I insured him in the kitty for a month.
First drive out and he backed it into a container :-(
Some damage to rear quarter panel and rear bumper - will post a pic when I can take one in daylight.
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MOT day...she failed, but nothing too serious.
Parking brake efficiency..blah, blah, blah.
Advisories for 1 tyre and front drop links slight play. Also had to remove the cougar sticker from the centre brake light.
All in all fairly happy.![]()
MOT day...she failed, but nothing too serious.
Parking brake efficiency..blah, blah, blah.
Advisories for 1 tyre and front drop links slight play. Also had to remove the cougar sticker from the centre brake light.
All in all fairly happy.![]()
MOT day...she failed, but nothing too serious.
Parking brake efficiency..blah, blah, blah.
Advisories for 1 tyre and front drop links slight play. Also had to remove the cougar sticker from the centre brake light.
All in all fairly happy.![]()
Also had to remove the cougar sticker from the centre brake light.![]()
Be good to see you Tim. You keepng the plate?