What Have You Done To Your 205 Today?

[Tesseractoid 3 1 Cars]

Sorted my loose feeling gearstick, fitted new gear change rods, the TU L linkage pivot bush kit and a couple of bronze shifter bushes, worked a treat, nice and snappy now!  quick video attached. 

Edited October 14 by Tesseractoid

[Leslie green 109]

Taken my 1.9 gti driveshafts apart , there are 99 needle roller bearings on each one and once you take the joint apart there is nothing holding them in anymore and after a lot of searching I found them all , on the floor , in the bin ,on the bench ,in the cv boot lol

[AlexRS2782 136 1 Cars]

Today i mainly swore at the car as, a month before the MOT is due, it's decided to seize the passenger side door in the permanently locked position.  Motor still working as the button goes up a few mm then re-engages down to locked, can't lift the button inside the car to unlock it, and the key wont turn more than a few degrees in either direction if you try to free it manually via the key (resulting in the metal around the lock starting to flex).  The list of niggles is beginning to grow again (hasn't been that way for a while). Bloody car lol.

 

Only bonus being the insurance renewal coming through at only £10 more than last year, and that's with an increase in value of the car from the previous policy.

Edited October 15 by AlexRS2782

[SweetBadger 94]

Fitted a linear actuator to my accusump valve… because why not!

 

Also a damn site cheaper than the cable operated remote valve kit from canton.

 

[welshpug 1,657]

8 hours ago, AlexRS2782 said:

Today i mainly swore at the car as, a month before the MOT is due, it's decided to seize the passenger side door in the permanently locked position.  Motor still working as the button goes up a few mm then re-engages down to locked, can't lift the button inside the car to unlock it, and the key wont turn more than a few degrees in either direction if you try to free it manually via the key (resulting in the metal around the lock starting to flex).  The list of niggles is beginning to grow again (hasn't been that way for a while). Bloody car lol.

 

Only bonus being the insurance renewal coming through at only £10 more than last year, and that's with an increase in value of the car from the previous policy.

You'll never free it by forcing the key,  it'll be the pivot on the inside of the outer handle seizing up.

[karabas 21]

After disappointed with the cracked cylinder head, I found a one. 
We will be on the road again soon. 
I applied the degree method. I used the torque wrench to see the values. 
60Nm first

slacken

20Nm then

The plan was 90+90+90 degree. 
at the second 90 degree torque values beyond 110 Nm which is wrench capacity. 
It was really hard to complete second 90. 
I tried another 30 degree instead of last 90. 
I tried extremely hard put all my power for the last 30. Only the number 9 bolt refused to turn last 30. 
 

 

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

Get a bigger (longer) bar.