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Old May 8, 2015 | 06:56 AM
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Gary Krishna
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Been doing some more work to it over the last few days to get it drivable.

I had one of those solid alloy gearbox mounts on it but the amount of vibration it transmitted into the car was unreal! Turns out that the top of the gearbox was actually touching the tunnel causing the vibration. Swapped back to a standard mount and it was perfect. I may look into it in more detail at some stage but for the moment the standard one will do

I also rewired the rear light plugs and done away the wank standard plugs and fitted some superseal ones. I had trouble getting the brake lights to work which when testing the volt drop on the circuit traced it to high resistance in the brake light switch. All sorted now!

Had a problem getting the brakes to work which was due to a seized pump motor. Never mind I thought, I'll just buy another one. Yeah right! They're like rocking horse shit! I almost admitted defeat and fitted a 4x4 one which would mean making up all new lines which go between the abs module and pump and would also mean the motor would sit closer to the manifold which was my whole reasoning behind fitting a 2wd pump as the motor sits next to the inner wing! Eventually my mate had one knocking about and it worked perfectly so I now have brakes!

It's going for MOT tomorrow morning so fingers crossed it'll be actually on the road tomorrow!
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