Sydney Dodgy Day - 14 October HUUUUUUUGE :)

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:32 pm

I had MX5 Mania replace the front bushes today, and I'm glad I did! The knowledge of what to do, and the tools to do it were outside my range!

Car feels more solid and controlled now, the steering wheel is at a 20 degree angle when driving straight ahead, but that was yto be expected and will be corrected at the alignment at heasman's tomorrow.

In all, I spend ~1200 on parts & tools, and $320 on labour, but considering the wheel bearings alone were $700 each from Mazda I saved a hell of a lot of money too!

If anyone is considering the bush replacement, I say go for it!

Now if if those brake pad guide plates would bloody arrive from the US I'll have nearly finished

(now that the suspension isn't rattling anymore, the other rattles, brake pads included, are very noticable!)

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:50 pm

Doug Heasman just called me to suggest a slight change to my requested alignment settings (he suggested 0.5 degree more rear camber to make the car more stable and avoid excessive oversteer with the new suspension bushes)

Now that's service! He knows alignment, and he knows MX5's

I'm happy to defer to an expert!

roddclarke · Postby **roddclarke** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:31 pm

Nice work everyone

What a great day it was..

Thanks to Caff for supplying lunch and BigDog for cooking

i had a great time.. but im still trying to get the dirt/greese off my hands..
But i'll be there for the next dodgy day to lend a hand

Its days like that that make me wish i still had my MX5

and this is a perfect example of \"you just have to give it a go\" and if all else fails.. book it in quickly with MX5 Mania

So who's car do i get to pull apart next time???? hahaha

Bigdog, i love the vid's.. but the high speed parts of undoing nuts just looks wrong...

roddclarke · Postby **roddclarke** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:34 pm

Bevan wrote:If you want to download the video to your computer, click the following links...

Bevan, i downloaded them, but cant play .FLV files

What player do i need??

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:40 pm

roddclarke wrote:
Bevan wrote:If you want to download the video to your computer, click the following links...

Bevan, i downloaded them, but cant play .FLV files

What player do i need??

WimpyPlayer seems to handle them...
http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wim ... layer.html

PS, did you get my email regarding the netti sale?

bigdog · Postby **bigdog** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:28 pm

Rodd, you need to download a Flash player from Adobe (free) for your browser...

Click Here

I made the clips fast to keep file size down - Photobucket limits the size and length you can upload - plus it makes some people look plain silly

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:33 am

One of the guys from work was quoted $2100 to replace one single suspension bush in his commodore!

I think doing all 22 or however many there are on my car for $920 is good value then!