What have you done to your car lately?

[guy 27]

I got a big box today

[sooty]

I got a big box today

Don't you always?

[dutchy]

I got a big box today

I like big boxes

[Jen]

And you cannot lie???

[Raisin]

Impatience got the best of me so I gave the stripped sump nut a crack tonight. My father had the idea to use a monkey wrench carefully around the outter lip of the sump plug as it has a bit of an edge. That worked and so we got the plug out, then we cleaned up the torx bit hole because when I it stripped I stopped really quickly and there was still some good left in it if it doesn't get tightened too much. So we put a new o-ring on, oiled it up and popped it back in carefully. I then swapped the filter and put some fresh oil in. The old stuff was really quite black and well overdue by my standards so I will probably do another oil and filter change after 1000km just to flush the system out.

But atleast the good news is that it has healthy oil and I can get the sump plug out now. The new one should arrive in a week or so from the UK. And we are back on track for me to start driving it this weekend!

[Devo]

Promised pic of my LED conversion. Even soldered the a/c buttons etc. which was a big step for me! Also have the SRI speedo backing installed with red dials not the standard.
If only I could do the automatic gear LEDs...

[rodsfromday]

Impatience got the best of me so I gave the stripped sump nut a crack tonight. My father had the idea to use a monkey wrench carefully around the outter lip of the sump plug as it has a bit of an edge. That worked and so we got the plug out, then we cleaned up the torx bit hole because when I it stripped I stopped really quickly and there was still some good left in it if it doesn't get tightened too much. So we put a new o-ring on, oiled it up and popped it back in carefully. I then swapped the filter and put some fresh oil in. The old stuff was really quite black and well overdue by my standards so I will probably do another oil and filter change after 1000km just to flush the system out.

But atleast the good news is that it has healthy oil and I can get the sump plug out now. The new one should arrive in a week or so from the UK. And we are back on track for me to start driving it this weekend!

Haha the old bobejaan spanner. Caught me out in the beginning until I was corrected that they are called STILSENS!
Good work you doing there anyway!!

[guy 27]

got some aluminium plasti dip today. Really happy with colour. Finish is exactly what I expected. nice and metallic.

[Raisin]

Haha the old bobejaan spanner. Caught me out in the beginning until I was corrected that they are called STILSENS!
Good work you doing there anyway!!

Well wadda you know TIL...

[Numbnut]

How keen are you to drive it Raisin? You doing a midnight drive tonight?