What Have You Done to Your Cougar Today?

Well done, Norman!


Foobar said:
Exhaust started knocking [ for the 3rd time ] on Monday, by Tuesday much louder and afraid to drive it further. To the exhaust place today and not one, or even two, but three rubber mounts needed at a grand total of £9 including VAT. I seem to need this done every 4-6 months...
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At that rate and for the slight difference in cost, I'd just poly-bush the lot, (unless you have a Blue Flame exhaust - that back two can't really be poly'd). We did that to Jinxy, and some of Tiger's as well.
 
Mako said:
Well done, Norman!




At that rate and for the slight difference in cost, I'd just poly-bush the lot, (unless you have a Blue Flame exhaust - that back two can't really be poly'd). We did that to Jinxy, and some of Tiger's as well.
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Thanks for the info Chris. Exhaust is stock as far as I know. The cat was only replaced 6 months ago and this problem had already ocurred twice before that time. Forgive me, but where do I find poly-bushes ?
 
dandamano said:
Powerflex no longer list them but you can get them from flo flex

https://floflex.co.uk/product/ford-mondeo-exhaust-hangers/

Ive got the flo flex ones on both the front and rear ARB on mine and they are good quality (y)
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Thanks Dan, I did follow Chris' well intentioned suggestion and have bookmarked it anyway for its obvious benefit for the rest of the vehicle. I have now found the FloFlex ones via your link, bookmarked them too and ordered a set - £15 a bargain.

Its worth mentioning that whilst I was at it, I also 'Backed Up' All Of My Shortcuts as I realised I now have so many of them. To lose them would be a real pain and all it takes is a virus, hard drive failure or maybe even a brownout. I use FireFox where it is really easy to do via 'Bookmarks' ( you need to have the 'Menu Bar' enabled - just a right mouse on the window Title Bar ), then 'Show All Bookmarks' then in the 'Bookmark Library' on its Menu Bar, click 'Import and Backup'. I remembered to put them on my 'Cloud Storage' with Office 365 which probably negates the whole exercise...
 
Fitted one of these to both the Cougar and the focus

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I hardwired them in rather than use the Cig lighter, was much easier than expected
 
dandamano said:
Fitted one of these to both the Cougar and the focus

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I hardwired them in rather than use the Cig lighter, was much easier than expected
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Looks good... I have the Nextbase one and is an awesome piece of kit...
Where did you hardwired it too? I'm struggling to find a switched live?
 
Rickysmith189 said:
Looks good... I have the Nextbase one and is an awesome piece of kit...
Where did you hardwired it too? I'm struggling to find a switched live?
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Theres one on the back of the radio

I hardwired it to that then earthed it to one of the earths in the passenger footwell

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backseateducation said:
Thats cool Dan. I assume you can switch the front display off? I think that would get on my wick.
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Yeah it goes off after 30 seconds of it coming on , its quite good as you can use it as a reversing camera too and fill the whole screen with just the back feed, ive got two reversing cameras now no excuse for hitting anything :LOL:
 
...a couple of days ago really

The freebie foot pedal covers have cleaned up very nicely. I found that continually changing the direction of wire brushing and trying to adopt an elliptical motion kept brush marks to a minimum. Also learned a lot about hex socket screws. I think the originals were imperial, as none of the 'dims' made sense. M4 x 6mm 'low-head' A2 stainless and M4 'thin square' nuts on order for the replacements. I have some 'doming resin' somewhere, so will try printing some mini Cougar badges for the new centres. I may not have saved a lot here, but I have at least found something to do inside in the warm !

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To be continued...
 
Foobar said:
Thanks Dan, I did follow Chris' well intentioned suggestion and have bookmarked it anyway for its obvious benefit for the rest of the vehicle. I have now found the FloFlex ones via your link, bookmarked them too and ordered a set - £15 a bargain.

Its worth mentioning that whilst I was at it, I also 'Backed Up' All Of My Shortcuts as I realised I now have so many of them. To lose them would be a real pain and all it takes is a virus, hard drive failure or maybe even a brownout. I use FireFox where it is really easy to do via 'Bookmarks' ( you need to have the 'Menu Bar' enabled - just a right mouse on the window Title Bar ), then 'Show All Bookmarks' then in the 'Bookmark Library' on its Menu Bar, click 'Import and Backup'. I remembered to put them on my 'Cloud Storage' with Office 365 which probably negates the whole exercise...
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Thanks Foobar for this excellent advice.
No doubt it means something but total gibberish to me.
Er Merry Xmas.
 
mabo said:
Thanks Foobar for this excellent advice.
No doubt it means something but total gibberish to me.
Er Merry Xmas.
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Its basically how you save a copy of everything in your favorites list on your web browser. That way if for any reason you have to reinstall windows for example, all the webpages you book marked can be readded to your web browser in a couple easy steps. Rather then trying to find each and every one back.



As for the coug, I got a second to go out this afternoon and assess the situation. Turned the wheels and discovered to move the silver car I have to swap back to the cougar front knuckles and wheels long enough to move the car. Considering nothings tight that should be simple however it means pulling the axles since I cant find my axle nut socket which is going to leak fluid all over the place. Wasnt much but, I sat in it at least.
 
dandamano said:
Fitted one of these to both the Cougar and the focus

VTDIuUw.jpg


I hardwired them in rather than use the Cig lighter, was much easier than expected
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Got a similar one, RAC branded which has Speed Camera alerts. Great piece of kit and permanently plugged into the cig lighter as it is switched with the ignition on the Lexus. Only downside is it fouls the passenger sun visor so you have to move the mirror to lower /raise it.

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Today, just, I saw DG for the first time in two weeks, i opened the cave and drove her around the village visiting relatives. Even the dials were misted up after a couple of minutes but they soon cleared. (y)
 
Discovered I have the connectors present in the lower part of my engine-bay fuse box which should facilitate the operation of the 'Scandinavian' daylight running-lamps.
Awaiting the arrival of a suitable relay to test the theory. (y)
 
Most non-running light cars here have the slot in the engine fuse box to add the relay. And I believe most of them have the wires. Alot of people don't know if you plug a relay into that slot you have running lights.

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