My 170S Build
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Time spent: 3hCumulative time: 120hMain activities: Torquing up the suspension, fixing the steering wheel Not much left to do but one really important job is to tighten up the front and rear suspension, and when this is done, I can align the headlights hopefully. Whilst the final suspension adjustments should in theory be pretty simple,…
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Time spent: 6hCumulative time: 62hMain activities: propshaft, turbo solenoid, handbrake, gear lever, engine mount, steering First job was to try and rectify the fixing for the LHS engine mount. The problem was getting the spring washer into the hole in which the bolt sits. The hole is only just wider than the hold-down bolt and…
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10 Feb 2023 Time spent: 5hCulmulative time: 21hMain activities; Installing the front brakes and wingstays. Drilling of wing support Pre-reading blogs by others had warned me that this might be tricky. Turned out to be so, but definitely a game-of-two-halves in that the LHS took me 3h and the RHS took me 1h. I had…
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Time spent: 3hCulmulative time: 16hMain activities; Fitting the rest of the front suspension, drilling of wing support. Blimey – that was a sod of a job. First problem was working out which bushes go into the mounts for the dampers. There is a bag of bushes of very similar (but not identical) size. By a…
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8 Feb 2023 Time spent: 4hCumulative time: 13hMain activities: Fitting the front suspension and first fixing of steering rack. The front suspension is a bit of a fiddly job. Many of the moving parts need some copper grease to allow them to slide into place and for ongoing lubrication presumably. Despite my best efforts the…
My 170S Build 