tooSavvy Posted January 17, 2023 Author Posted January 17, 2023 TNT* delivery tomorrow [18th Wed]...... *No.... DHL (driver hopelessly lost) ☕ I think most of my £12 must have gone to the courier 😵... 🥳 Jim Bell 1
tooSavvy Posted January 17, 2023 Author Posted January 17, 2023 Dropped into ToolStation and scored 1M * M8 threaded rod @£2:60 ....... Bit of 'fartcan clamping' jiggery-pokery may be required. I have a sack of nuts/shakey washers + some scrap u-channel 👍✔️
tooSavvy Posted January 18, 2023 Author Posted January 18, 2023 Like fu#kinn Xmas, here...... 🍾🥂 ...... And I think the prices on 'boy racer' sites charged for a piece of pipe 😮! 🚙💨 privatewire, rob88h, AnnoyingPentium and 2 others 5
tooSavvy Posted January 19, 2023 Author Posted January 19, 2023 #twitalert#.... 🤔 Some of you may be thinking 'hmm, looks to be a LONG FartCan for a SHORT ARSED Swift!' Yes, me too 😮.... It is 2" shorter than the underfloor 'gap'. 🎉 ... TF 🚙💨
tooSavvy Posted January 24, 2023 Author Posted January 24, 2023 Been lying under the car today (yupp = warm + dry day!) Backbox has been 'cobbled' onto the main link pipe previously... Good News = I have a stout length of 42MM pipe (clamped onto factory original pipe) then running to rotted out box... I chop through the 42MM and wizz the Fart Can onto the end, using a short piece of the linkpipe I just got delivered. The hanger rubbers are OK and with a piece of u channel across the F.C. and a heavy wire hook, to either side, then hanging/location will be sorted 😎 privatewire, Dyslexic Viking, Matty and 2 others 5
Matty Posted January 24, 2023 Posted January 24, 2023 Obligatory video of new exhaust note? AnnoyingPentium, Jim Bell and tooSavvy 2 1
Jim Bell Posted January 24, 2023 Posted January 24, 2023 Video of giving it the beans required. tooSavvy and loserone 1 1
tooSavvy Posted January 24, 2023 Author Posted January 24, 2023 This was 'exploratory' scoping..... I have a plan and once I get the ex clamps and have a whole dry day, chop chop chop 🎉🍾🥂 🚙💨 Jim Bell and Matty 2
tooSavvy Posted January 27, 2023 Author Posted January 27, 2023 We now have a 'full kit'......... 58 + 54 Need a clear dry & warmish day.....
tooSavvy Posted January 28, 2023 Author Posted January 28, 2023 Just been rummaging in 'man cave' (back kitchen cupboard) hoping to unearth a tube of Ex paste [non-solidified 🙄] Pleased to report the Granville tube, last seen light of day when cobbling back box onto ToMM©, is 80% full + soft as toothpaste.... Full Of WIN 😎✔️ AnnoyingPentium 1
tooSavvy Posted January 29, 2023 Author Posted January 29, 2023 Right 😎 Weatherman says 'sunny + warm[..ish!]' Monday is FartCan-a-go-go....... 👌😋 *Everyone? wants lotssa piccies + Vid !! 😱 ..... I'm quite looking forward to all this 🙄 🚙💨+💨💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted January 30, 2023 Author Posted January 30, 2023 Here We Go...... 08:30 coffee to get cranked up. Then pull all my kit out, from various cupboards = no garage 😕 Will update as we progress........ 🚙💨+💨💨 AnnoyingPentium 1
tooSavvy Posted January 30, 2023 Author Posted January 30, 2023 Teaser..... 🙄 Nope... No 'Ricer Civic Homeboy' 👍 Brooommm burbble. Brooom 😋 🚙💨 privatewire and Matty 2
tooSavvy Posted January 30, 2023 Author Posted January 30, 2023 Removing the old box, cutting through doubled pipe, using a mini padsaw..... 😱 Shoulders are shouting a wee bit just now 😮 All clamped up, nice and neat fitting 😎 The difference in the pipe diameter is made up with chopped rings (original dia tube) made into two lesser sizes = jumps the size gap 🔨✔️ 🚙💨 rob88h, Matty, loserone and 1 other 4
tooSavvy Posted January 30, 2023 Author Posted January 30, 2023 Whole box..... Ready to slot in & pop thru rubber hanger 😉 #Note my Error = 3cuts & not deep enough 😮 Matty, privatewire, crad and 1 other 4
tooSavvy Posted January 31, 2023 Author Posted January 31, 2023 MK2 ver. 😮 The major pipe must be cut, to crimp onto the original ex section 😕... I cut 3 slots = not enough!! = Pipe loose/hanging/knocking 😱 This morning had all in bits again... 6 slots + further depth into the pipe. Also my 'no prisoners' 1/2" driver breaker was used to lean on the clamp nuts... Till they SQUEAKED 🔨 ...... Test drive to destruction (err, local roads/potholes 🙄) = 100% rock solid 👌 privatewire and DSdriver 2
tooSavvy Posted February 1, 2023 Author Posted February 1, 2023 Made an interesting/frightening😱 discovery, whilst having to take the R/O/S wheel off to a access ex box.... The alloy wheel nuts are 7/8"(22mm) and I don't have a wheel brace that size in the car.. OOPSS 😟 I got by happily with the 7/8" socket[3/8 drive] in my Kamsa box.... But really wanted 1/2" one for my Extender wheel brace. So then, I popped £3.99 on bayofFlee for a 7/8"6sider@1/2" drive. ...... probably get a flat now 🙄 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted February 3, 2023 Author Posted February 3, 2023 Exhausting Update...... 😕 The dreaded 'occasional klonk' (but not over the same pothole) 🙄 ...... So, for two days, I've had her arse up my ramps and aggressive finessing of 'bungy rubber hangers' has got the pipe firmly suspended way, and I mean far&away from the trailing link. Silence now reigns 👍 🚙💨 crad, privatewire and Matty 3
tooSavvy Posted February 4, 2023 Author Posted February 4, 2023 I have splashed out, in the 'Land of the Free', for a Torque Strut.... The most hammered part of engine mounts in Swift [Auto only]. Spent some while 'drilling down' into the wildcard/search on RockAuto 😎 .... Absolutely the 'last in stock' and searching just anywhere else, Webbie mining Euro Stockists.... #[Out Of Stock] 😕 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted February 6, 2023 Author Posted February 6, 2023 I'm giving some thought to the Engine Mounts.... Particularly the Autobox/chassis rail rubber - it is now NLA - and when powering around a corner, with tight lock to the left, I'm getting a metallic chatter/knock. 25 years old + 50k.... I think some 'refresh' is appropriate 😮 🚙💨
Jikovron Posted February 6, 2023 Posted February 6, 2023 Not surprised the powertrain mounts are crying now you've got that straight though box on it, Just an SU carb to fit next eh AnnoyingPentium, Matty and tooSavvy 3
tooSavvy Posted February 7, 2023 Author Posted February 7, 2023 Well...... 'powertrain' you say 🙄 I have started getting a proper racket up from front & rear.... Sounds like the Ex pipe - front to back 😱 Up on the ramps we go [... Again... 😮] and, well, wodd ja no 👁️.... The Ex tip has Welded it's self to the Thermoplastic bumper 😵😵 A little bit of tennon saw action got a large, melted snot chopped out = Ex now dangling as it should 😎 ...... bodgitt n scarper haven't a look in 🤣🤣 🚙💨 Matty 1
tooSavvy Posted February 11, 2023 Author Posted February 11, 2023 My 'dog-bone' engine/tranny mount has flew away haem, across the seas 🥳🎉 Left from Whittier, CA.... Now.... Customs clear @ Heathrow 11 Feb. Valentines Day.... Ready to be sent out to my Depot.... Matty 1
Matty Posted February 11, 2023 Posted February 11, 2023 Are you auto only @tooSavvyor was it just the right car at the right time? tooSavvy 1
tooSavvy Posted February 11, 2023 Author Posted February 11, 2023 56 minutes ago, Matty said: Are you auto only @tooSavvyor was it just the right car at the right time? I do rather like 'lazy slushhies'....... Hyundai pony Dreg 1.5 sal auto 2.0LPT sal 9k auto 2.0 carb Ereg 626 hatch auto SuziQ.... 😋 AnnoyingPentium and Matty 2
Matty Posted February 11, 2023 Posted February 11, 2023 Not tempted with one last Imp then? Know I am tooSavvy 1
tooSavvy Posted February 11, 2023 Author Posted February 11, 2023 Well..... IMP = pipedream 😕 .... Today, coming back to Tyneside from Rothbury - frost ragged farmers back roads, toe in 😎, gravel peppering the arches & eyeballs vibrating like pinball pegs..... SuziQ was as much a stand-in as likely, in my future .... #nearly forgot# .... Of course, my fartbox @5k [holddown] was >>> 😋sublime😋 🚙💨
tooSavvy Posted February 15, 2023 Author Posted February 15, 2023 Dogbone has arrived..... ShoutOut for RockAuto! Smooth 😎 Part was £10.50 - Shipping £11.50.... From 8th to 15th.... P D Q 👍 Dyslexic Viking and privatewire 2
tooSavvy Posted February 16, 2023 Author Posted February 16, 2023 Hmmm..... If my porksword was as limp as the rubber in this Dogbone 😟 Ah haa.... Fully injected with construction glue!! 😋😋 ..... Give it 7 days ⌚ 🚙💨 privatewire 1
tooSavvy Posted February 20, 2023 Author Posted February 20, 2023 Around Tues, last week, I made a swerve [to dodge a farmer* in a Forrester] into the verge on a country road..... Crash = pothole 😟. Now..... I have the howl/brrrmmm coming up from the front ns 🙄. Constant on rbts (turn right) silent on left turns...... I'm going to have to get it into the local garage as I'm not equipped for brg swaps 🤬 Matty, privatewire, Dyslexic Viking and 1 other 4
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