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[quote][i]Originally posted by Kyle T[/i] OK update time. I finished the last update with the fluids changed and all sensors fitted but I was waiting on an auto-electrician to extend the sensor wires so they'd reach the dash. While I waited I got on with some other odd jobs. One of my seats had seatbelt rubbing damage which I did a fairly good job of fixing: [img]https://i.imgur.com/2EqptV7.jpg?1[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/EaxrPdu.jpg?1[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/EUc3Of7.jpg?1[/img] At some point in the last few weeks I made a drunk eBay purchase and got some part worn RS4-2 pagid pads for the rear. I've done worse after a few beers on eBay, they have loads of meat left and got them for 25% the cost of a new set. This did leave me needing some fronts though, but a friend and VX220 owner was sitting on some that he was saving for a 2pot rear caliper conversion that he hasn't got round to yet... so I convinced him to sell me those. I now have a matching set of pads front and back! (Car came to me with EBC red up front and Brembo "oem" at the rear, I'm a bit nervous about mismatched pads on track). [img]https://i.imgur.com/ZvqY95M.jpg?1[/img] Whilst doing the pads, I took the discs off to address something that Track Torque pointed out to me. The insides of my discs were getting very little wear and hence were rusting up badly: [img]https://i.imgur.com/KOMrI40.jpg?1[/img] I addressed this with some sandpaper, cleared the holes out and then countersunk the holes a bit to help them clear dust in future. The caliper inside pistons are free as a bird so I'm hoping some more aggressive pads and a good bleed will sort this going forward. The final midweek job I did was on the driver seat rails, but got no photographs as I did it in a rush at my Grans house (she has a bench vice, I don't). I had a little bit of play in the drivers seat, it would rock slightly if manipulated and there's a documented process of dismantling the rails and squishing them in a vice then rebuilding with grease. I did it, it worked. Yay. I gave the auto-electrician 8 days, then found he was still waiting on his "supplier" (eBay) for the appropriate wire - so I called him off and decided to sort it myself. Amazon Prime for some 3core 18gauge cable for £12 and was delivered in 10 hours, mental. Sunday I started extending. [img]https://i.imgur.com/QO87p5f.jpg?1[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/VpAAbm8.jpg?1[/img] Shorts and crocs are NOT suitable clothing for soldering. All was going well until I burned my little finger on the iron, dropped the wire and then instinctively "caught" it with my bare knees whilst the solder was still hot. I did a tidy job though and got everything extended and insulated fairly quickly, then it was a case of running the wires along the handbrake cable/gear cables through the centre console and into the dash. No pictures here, but I'm sure you can imagine it. The wires came up behind the head unit through an existing hole, but it wasn't grommet-ed so I could do to bung some sponge in there or something just to stop the wires rubbing. You can roughly see where the cables go here: [img]https://i.imgur.com/4GnAwGz.jpg?1[/img] I spent way too long hoovering and cleaning the interior before putting it all back in. Smells lovely in there too after the leather products used on the seat. Finally I had a working gauge with all sensors connected: Day time illumination: [img]https://i.imgur.com/tnu2J1A.jpg[/img] Night time: [img]https://i.imgur.com/Iu6SlNc.jpg[/img] I've had the car idling on stands for a while, obsessively checking for oil leaks around the new sender but everything seems good. Last job was to bleed brakes, I put a litre of Mobile DOT4 stuff through it with my eezibleed. [img]https://i.imgur.com/axZoayX.jpg?1[/img] All was going well with loads of air coming out: [img]https://i.imgur.com/7pMnMiD.jpg?1[/img] I noticed towards the end that way more fluid was going in than coming out... uhoh. After lowering the front of the car back down, I started getting quite a lot of brake fluid dripping onto the floor. All unions/hoses were dry, no leaks around the calipers this was clearly coming from the reservoir or the booster/master cylinder area under the front clam. I hosed it all down and ran plenty of clean water through to let it dry over night. Come onto today and the reservoir is still full, pedal has full pressure and everything seems to be fine... I first assumed that the eezibleed had popped a host off somewhere but I can't find any evidence and it seems to hold pressure fine when I hook it back up. The leading (hopeful) theory right now is that the reservoir cap was weeping whilst under pressure and I didn't notice it as it wasn't spraying, it just leaked silently down the side of the reservoir. I'll take it out for a tentative drive this afternoon and will check again for leaks. If I never update this thread again, it's because I died. If there is something leaking under there, I really fear it'll be a clam-off job to inspect which I could really do without after all the work I've just finished, car needs to be driven!! [/quote]
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