Back together again

I was going to make an early start this morning but it was -4° so I bottled out and sorted out my race suit instead. I’d been planning to send it away to have it dry cleaned and to have the velcro on the belt and collar replaced as all the hooks had fallen off the old stuff. In the end the company I spoke to said it was OK to stick them in the washing machine so that’s what I did. I managed to buy some fireproof velcro as well so this morning I spent an hour unpicking the old stuff and sewing some new velcro on.

By 10 o’clock I decided it would be tolerable in the garage so off I went outside. I go the front shock refitted then replaced the brake fluid and bled all the brakes. After that I stripped, cleaned and regreased the front hubs and bearings.

After lunch I got the wheels back on and lowered her onto the ground and set up my string box around the car to check all the wheel alignments. I was now confident of getting the car ready so rang Llandow and booked onto tomorrow’s trackday. The front wheels were fine for both toe and camber but the rears unsurprisingly weren’t. It then took me a couple of hours to get the rear end sorted, I wanted just a couple of millimetres of toe-in and about 1.5&deg of camber. Once I was happy I could tighten up all the rose joint lock nuts etc, stick the wheels back on and tighten the hub nuts.

Now running out of time (as I’m working this evening) I got the car outside and got David to sit in it to measure the corner weights. After a bit of tweaking I was happy with that and got her back into the garage and refitted the bodywork. The harnesses need refitting in the morning and I need to pack my stuff up but the car’s otherwise ready to go