How much shite is too much shite? Winter is coming so I bought the ultimate de-icer!

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

1 hour ago, Jenson Velcro said:

Pad knock-back from wheel bearing play?

Seems more likely than seals suddenly fixing themselves .

[hairnet]

15 hours ago, Saabnut said:

 

 

 

all time #1 want

have wanted one for more than 30 years

100k if you can find one of the 99 for sale

[Saabnut]

Looks like it is the master cylinder as the brakes are perfect or zero. Russian roulette at its finest. 
 

Now at the Classic British Welcome at Saint Saturnin. 

[DSdriver]

Could it be a heat issue with the brake fluid, I had a car that had no brakes while the engine was on fire but they worked perfectly once the fire was extinguished?

[hairnet]

5 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Looks like it is the master cylinder as the brakes are perfect or zero. Russian roulette at its finest. 
 

Now at the Classic British Welcome at Saint Saturnin. 

So one from a Morris minor will fit your kit car *runs

Hope you don't have more problems athough that's #1 scary

Cos.its.not a fiesta is it

[hairnet]

5 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Looks like it is the master cylinder as the brakes are perfect or zero. Russian roulette at its finest. 
 

Now at the Classic British Welcome at Saint Saturnin. 

Clas

Sic

Brit

Ish

Porsche.nein

[Saabnut]

All running well today 

[Saabnut]

Smoke on the water!

 

 

leaving the campsite this morning and the others are heading back to Blighty whilst I am heading back to my house for a few days R&R 

[lesapandre]

And a win by Ferrari...

[Saabnut]

What? Was there a race on?  

The local supermarket had work ongoing in the car park last time I was here. Turns out it was for solar panels. What a great idea, shade is most welcome today. Went shopping

Now not shopping!

[Saabnut]

The brakes have been behaving perfectly but I have been driving it as if they were to go again, just in case. Yesterday I booked my expensive ferry back to the UK (it is summer and I wanted the shortest distance in France 'cos of the brakes) and took the cheaper non refundable option as I need to get home for a few days rest before heading offshore again.

Today I was back at the supermarket refreshing the beer stock when my phone went. It was a colleague in Norway letting me know the mobilisation of the boat had been put back 24 hours so I would not now need to be there until Sunday! After much confusion, it appeared everyone had forgotten to tell me, assuming someone else had! No time now to drive home then fly to Norway, so I am going to leave the Cobra with a Jag enthusiast mate down here and fly from Paris on Saturday. As a bonus, my friend has offered to have a look at the brakes whilst I am away, but tomorrow is going to be busy booking hotels, flights and trains.

Will return to France once the job is over and it looks like I might make the Classic Lemans now!

[Saabnut]

Sun shining, visitor from blighty so beer consumed. Off to work tomorrow

[chaseracer]

On 07/06/2023 at 22:08, High Jetter said:

Have you read 'Life in the fast lane'? AC related

'Clear The Fast Lane' - Douglas Rutherford?  London to Greece and (almost) back, four-up in an AC 428?  Excellent yarn!

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

'Clear The Fast Lane' - Douglas Rutherford?  London to Greece and (almost) back, four-up in an AC 428?  Excellent yarn!

Yup, that's the one. Got the title a bit wrong, sorry. Read it many times in my teens.

[Saabnut]

Flight 2 of 2 today and both delayed 😞but at least AS is back so let’s see if my phone battery lasts 

Left LeChezSaabnut at 10 am and dropped off the Cobra with my friend 

 

[Saabnut]

Another friend gave me a lift to the tram at Le Mans 

[Saabnut]

From Le Mans it was TGV direct to Charles De Gaul airport with just two intermediate stops. Fast comfortable and cheap

[Saabnut]

Then there was the driverless train/tram/whatever which did not hang about

 

[Saabnut]

Then SAS to Copenhagen (20 minutes delay) 

which is where I am now but the flight to Stavanger is 65 minutes delayed. once I get to Stavanger it is a taxi to the hotel for the night but looking to be well past midnight again

[puddlethumper]

It's a shame you aren't at home as the circus is in Dundee and I would have popped in for a cuppa. 

[Saabnut]

7 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

It's a shame you aren't at home as the circus is in Dundee and I would have popped in for a cuppa. 

I had planned on giving you a shout before work intervened 

[dollywobbler]

On 6/12/2023 at 2:27 PM, Saabnut said:

What? Was there a race on?  

The local supermarket had work ongoing in the car park last time I was here. Turns out it was for solar panels. What a great idea, shade is most welcome today. Went shopping

Now not shopping!

I have such fond memories of that tree!

[Saabnut]

Now at my hotel after 14.5 hours of travelling. Still probably quicker than driving 😀

[Saabnut]

Today I have been a bus wanker 😀  Taxi out to the airport to get my passport stamped then another back to the bus station (thanks Schengen). Comfy and quiet Volvo for the 2 hour journey to Haugesund. 
 

of course being Norway the trip involved many tunnels including one with a traffic island in the middle and a ferry 

Another taxi got me to the boat 

[High Jetter]

A ferry in a tunnel?

[Saabnut]

Today I had an email from my friend who is storing the Cobra for me. A set of ramps and a quick look soon diagnosed the problem, and explained the loss of brake pedal a couple of times after which they have been fine. The Cobra has a single circuit brake system. This was the culprit:

One of the EBC Greenstuff pads fitted, and which I had checked at the end of last year as still having plenty of meat on, had decided to part company with the friction material. Fortunately the calliper piston had not made it out far enough to make a bid for freedom and it went back in OK. The disc has a fair bit of scoring on one side, but not enough to weaken it, so a second hand pad (I know, I know) has been fitted which will get me back to blighty (or last for many more years as is the AS way).

 

 

[hairnet]

eep

 

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

1 hour ago, Saabnut said:

Today I had an email from my friend who is storing the Cobra for me. A set of ramps and a quick look soon diagnosed the problem, and explained the loss of brake pedal a couple of times after which they have been fine. The Cobra has a single circuit brake system. This was the culprit:

One of the EBC Greenstuff pads fitted, and which I had checked at the end of last year as still having plenty of meat on, had decided to part company with the friction material. Fortunately the calliper piston had not made it out far enough to make a bid for freedom and it went back in OK. The disc has a fair bit of scoring on one side, but not enough to weaken it, so a second hand pad (I know, I know) has been fitted which will get me back to blighty (or last for many more years as is the AS way).

 

 

Not quite the pad knock off I was thinking of !😀

[big_al_granvia]

Greenstuff is a really soft pad, imo not for anything more than a normal road car. Redstuff is quite hard and would do fine, if you want race spec go yellow.. 

[lesapandre]

17 hours ago, Saabnut said:

Today I had an email from my friend who is storing the Cobra for me. A set of ramps and a quick look soon diagnosed the problem, and explained the loss of brake pedal a couple of times after which they have been fine. The Cobra has a single circuit brake system. This was the culprit:

One of the EBC Greenstuff pads fitted, and which I had checked at the end of last year as still having plenty of meat on, had decided to part company with the friction material. Fortunately the calliper piston had not made it out far enough to make a bid for freedom and it went back in OK. The disc has a fair bit of scoring on one side, but not enough to weaken it, so a second hand pad (I know, I know) has been fitted which will get me back to blighty (or last for many more years as is the AS way).

 

 

Serious fail that. May be a good idea to contact EBC and let them know. Clearly the AC is a quick car but that notwithstanding it's a concerning technical fail that may warrant investigation.