My 170S Build
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Category: Suspension
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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: 96hMain activities: Finish front wings, rear brakes, rear wings With the message overnight from Caterham about how to fix the braided brake hose to the car, I got in and re-did this to make sure it was correct. Slightly awkward to get at, but given its importance, I wanted to do…
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Time spent: 6hCumulative time: 90hMain activities: Finish front wings, rear suspension and brakes I did the second pass of the wings with the glue this morning, and tidied up the indicator wiring in the underside of the wing. It seems to have set pretty well overnight. Disposable gloves essential for this job so that you…
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Time spent: 6hCumulative time: 81hMain activities: Roll cage, rear suspension, drive train, front wings Had some family visiting over the weekend who I quickly put to work to help get the rear axle in place. Its definitely a two-handed process. First job was to wheel the whole car out of the garage and turn it…
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Time spent: 6hCulmulative time: 30hMain activities: Anti Roll Bar, radiator and heater install The replacement ball end for the ARB arrived whilst I was away so that was the first thing I tackled this morning. All went reasonably well – the new ball end needed filing around it’s equator which took quite a lot of…
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Time spent: 3hCulmulative time: 24hMain activities: starting the lights and anti roll bar The assembly guide suggests the lights as the next task. Well this was expected to be the big one. All the blogs say this is one of the most difficult jobs on The Project. I spent quite a length of time trying…
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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 