tooSavvy Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 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 👍✔️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 Like fu#kinn Xmas, here...... 🍾🥂 ...... And I think the prices on 'boy racer' sites charged for a piece of pipe 😮! 🚙💨 privatewire, AnnoyingPentium, Jim Bell and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 #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 🚙💨 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 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 😎 Dyslexic Viking, Matty, AnnoyingPentium and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Obligatory video of new exhaust note? Jim Bell, tooSavvy and AnnoyingPentium 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Video of giving it the beans required. tooSavvy and loserone 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 This was 'exploratory' scoping..... I have a plan and once I get the ex clamps and have a whole dry day, chop chop chop 🎉🍾🥂 🚙💨 Matty and Jim Bell 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 We now have a 'full kit'......... 58 + 54 Need a clear dry & warmish day..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 Teaser..... 🙄 Nope... No 'Ricer Civic Homeboy' 👍 Brooommm burbble. Brooom 😋 🚙💨 privatewire and Matty 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 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 🔨✔️ 🚙💨 privatewire, Matty, rob88h and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 Whole box..... Ready to slot in & pop thru rubber hanger 😉 #Note my Error = 3cuts & not deep enough 😮 privatewire, Matty, crad and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted January 31 Author Share Posted January 31 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 👌 DSdriver and privatewire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 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, Matty and privatewire 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 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 😮 🚙💨 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jikovron Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 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 Matty, AnnoyingPentium and tooSavvy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Are you auto only @tooSavvyor was it just the right car at the right time? tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 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.... 😋 Matty and AnnoyingPentium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Not tempted with one last Imp then? Know I am tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 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😋 🚙💨 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 Dogbone has arrived..... ShoutOut for RockAuto! Smooth 😎 Part was £10.50 - Shipping £11.50.... From 8th to 15th.... P D Q 👍 privatewire and Dyslexic Viking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted February 16 Author Share Posted February 16 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 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, Dyslexic Viking, privatewire and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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