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The garage have fixed it, as you said, the material came off the shoes. I could have easily fixed this myself but there's no way I would have got it over to my place and I'm happy it didn't happen on the motorway!

Cheers Jasper,

Its been a while since i've owned a car with drums on the back. so this is a fairly common issue with drums?

I just got in my 406 for a drive and the first time i hit the brakes my left hand rear drum locked up! I unlocked it by reversing a little, but subsequently every time i brake with any pressure it knocks and locks up again...luckily theres a garage at the end of the road so I've'ev left it with them...

that display you sold me worked a treat after i changed the bulbs, cheers fella!

I'm after a grey rear centre headrest. what colour were your original cloth seats?

Cheers!

can the alternator clutch pulleys be replaced or would it mean changing the alternator?

sorted it out today, the OEM one was tight but i hammered it in with no major problems much better now, so much so in fact that i could tell that the crankshaft pulley was knackered, so i fitted a new one of them too. only trouble is now the belt is vibrating like a post i've seen on here before. so...

I've just picked up the genuine part and measured it with my calipers, its 2mm smaller than the ebay part and the rubber is a fair bit softer too I've also got a small woodworking vice for £16 from machine mart, but i already have a record 34p that i could use if i needed to, i'm hoping with the gen...

I botched together a home-made puller when I replaced my coupé's bottom mount - not a process I'd ever want to repeat. So when it came to replacing the missus' mount I did some research on the freezer trick. Worked out that freezing from ambient temperature to -20c would only shrink the diameter by...

I got it from eBay, i should probably get a dealer part, how much are they?

lozz wrote:Some of these bushes are made too big so they don't press in easy.
id take a angle grinder too them (grinding blade not cutting blade) and shave them down abit.
smear of grease and tap it in.

I might give that a go, just shave a flat on a few sides?

The mount was on the car, I was running out of light and was half way through taking the driveshaft out, I'd drained the gearbox oil earlier but I called it a day when the balljoint spun so I refilled it, but I might make up a tool to press it in

Oh yeah the flexi section What size socket did you use? I might be able to get some steel plate, I remember trying that before with my old 406 and ending up stripping the threads on the rod, I smacked it in with a lump hammer but it wasn't perfect. How did you set it all up? How much is the garage l...

I haven't got anything powerful enough to tow it, my other car is an mx5 lol

I've put the cross bar back in and some of of the old bush but it does move around, that said it was moving around before, what parts could be stressed?

I managed to remove my shot lower engine mount today but couldn't get the new one in, which is a pain cus i've replaced one of these before with no issue. The lower ball-joint nut just spun round and i lost patience so i'm gonna send it to the garage so they can press it in properly. Can i still dri...

I sold the BSI, ECU ( you need both together to be compatible ) door locks, ignition barrel, transponder, keys with PIN code and also the speedo clocks. BSI, ECU and clocks all hold info about the cars mileage, so ideally need to be a set to guarantee they correspond. I had the misfortune of overlo...