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No I had already discussed all this with mechanic one side then the other leaving console in place doing one side carefully marking position (scribed) then the other but I had ordered new bolts M12 x75 mm holding up that bush mount ..I also supplied two new lemforder bushes ..being a bit of a control freak I ordered every part I put together the struts myself and new bolts etc tied in bags on every part ..I even wrote down the various torque settings ..all was laid out in the rear of car with rear seats out ..yes I know OCD ? but on a positive note saves him loads of time ..strip out all the old and fit nice clean new ..oh yes and hot pressure washed off whole areas before he started.
I had come across those front brake flexis before ..?
 
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Yesterday actually, but the Osram bulbs seem a definite improvement.

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Changed the brake fluid.
I have a Gunson pressure bleeding kit, a pipe with anti siphon valve and a Mityvac vacuum pump but decided to use none of them and went for the most basic method possible - using a plastic pipe and glass jar. It's so simple with much less risk of brake fluid spilling / leaking in the engine bay and is a one man operation providing the end of the pipe is always submerged in the jar.
I'd gone round the bleed nipples the previous day and freed them off with a hex socket - 7mm and 11mm (I think)
Also checked the bleed sequence and it's - rear drivers side, rear passenger, front drivers and front passenger side, which equates to starting at the furthest distance from the ABS pump and finishing at the nearest.
I also decided not to siphon off the old fluid from the master cylinder and just pumped it through instead - saving another messy job with extra kit to clean up.
With the first bleed nipple just cracked open off I went. 15 pumps of the pedal then topped up master cylinder and checked for air bubbles collecting in plastic pipe. A good light behind the pipe really shows up the smallest of bubbles. It took several goes before I was happy all the old fluid had been purged.
There is no real need to tighten the bleed nipple while the pedal is fully down since the pipe is full of brake fluid and can't draw air but habits of a lifetime are hard to break. I have a long speed cramp, reversed one of the jaws so it became a pusher and with the upper jaw under the steering wheel, used it to hold the pedal fully down.
It was a totally stress free job with no wife involvement and no shouting

This is the youtube clip that took me back to basics - I did not bother with the fancy bottle though

Cheers Spike
 
spike said:
Changed the brake fluid.
I have a Gunson pressure bleeding kit, a pipe with anti siphon valve and a Mityvac vacuum pump but decided to use none of them and went for the most basic method possible - using a plastic pipe and glass jar. It's so simple with much less risk of brake fluid spilling / leaking in the engine bay and is a one man operation providing the end of the pipe is always submerged in the jar.
I'd gone round the bleed nipples the previous day and freed them off with a hex socket - 7mm and 11mm (I think)
Also checked the bleed sequence and it's - rear drivers side, rear passenger, front drivers and front passenger side, which equates to starting at the furthest distance from the ABS pump and finishing at the nearest.
I also decided not to siphon off the old fluid from the master cylinder and just pumped it through instead - saving another messy job with extra kit to clean up.
With the first bleed nipple just cracked open off I went. 15 pumps of the pedal then topped up master cylinder and checked for air bubbles collecting in plastic pipe. A good light behind the pipe really shows up the smallest of bubbles. It took several goes before I was happy all the old fluid had been purged.
There is no real need to tighten the bleed nipple while the pedal is fully down since the pipe is full of brake fluid and can't draw air but habits of a lifetime are hard to break. I have a long speed cramp, reversed one of the jaws so it became a pusher and with the upper jaw under the steering wheel, used it to hold the pedal fully down.
It was a totally stress free job with no wife involvement and no shouting

This is the youtube clip that took me back to basics - I did not bother with the fancy bottle though

Cheers Spike
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Done it like this for 40 years but I have to say in a loud voice up stop down stop whilst open and closing the bleed nipples and get wifey to operate the peddle. Call in tradition in my house, it’s the only thing the wife is ever asked to do car related so I get away with it
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Today I took the bonnet off my own AMF a2 ..? because of all the wet weather on the levels where we live all the rodents rats included have come up on to the higher ground although I’ve got rat bait boxes around the property found this ..I found a nest under the log store blocked up all the holes and have the truck running with a Hoover pipe lots of gaffa tape on the exhaust underneath .,trucks been running for couple of hours ..hopefully that’s done the trick could do with a good terrier ..I certainly don’t want the loom chewed through ..they chewed the top of the fuel tank on an a2 few years back ..apparently they like diesel ?
 

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This morning i attempted to change the main headlight bulb. I took the headlight out on advice from here but changing the bulb was such a faf. I've put the holding clip back by located it's 2 pins / legs into the clamps but there doesn't seam to be enough pressure to firmly hold the bulb down into the holder. Is this right , have i done something wrong?
 
Vorsprung durch Technik said:
This morning i attempted to change the main headlight bulb. I took the headlight out on advice from here but changing the bulb was such a faf. I've put the holding clip back by located it's 2 pins / legs into the clamps but there doesn't seam to be enough pressure to firmly hold the bulb down into the holder. Is this right , have i done something wrong?
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I'm guessing that you're talking about the main beam headlight, rather than the dipped one. I've just taken a photo showing the clip installed correctly.

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If you need a photo of the dipped beam bulb clipped in, just let me know.
 
Vorsprung durch Technik said:
This morning i attempted to change the main headlight bulb.
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Whatever you do, don't be tempted to let the man from Halfords do it. I did once. Took two of them twenty minutes and they were a bit quick about getting the bonnet back on. When I got to work, I took the bonnet off to check, they had fitted the bubls , but couldn't work out how to get the headlight access covers back on. Both of them had fallen off, one was wedged and the other lose on the undertray.
 
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If you need a photo of the dipped beam bulb clipped in, just let me know.
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OK, now I've decided that you were talking about the dipped beam bulb, and yes, you've probably reattached the spring clip reversed. Normally you unclip this by pushing the top of the clip to the right, and leaving the pivots at the bottom alone.

Here's a picture of what you're hoping to achieve:

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steve_c said:
OK, now I've decided that you were talking about the dipped beam bulb, and yes, you've probably reattached the spring clip reversed. Normally you unclip this by pushing the top of the clip to the right, and leaving the pivots at the bottom alone.

Here's a picture of what you're hoping to achieve:

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Perhaps OT, but is that bulb properly seated? Looks a bit strange to me.
 
steve_c said:
I'm guessing that you're talking about the main beam headlight, rather than the dipped one. I've just taken a photo showing the clip installed correctly.

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If you need a photo of the dipped beam bulb clipped in, just let me know.
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Chees for that. I'm not familiar with the plethora of bulbs in there but i meant to say the low beam bulb. Looks like a conventional bulb but without incorporating the high beam, ie only one filament.
 
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I've tried reclipping it, but it just goes back in the same place. I have several headlight units here, and they're all pretty much the same.
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So it seams your experiencing what i mentioned, it's not seating fully but still oriented correctly just not tightly? I mention this as other bulbs ive changed during my lifetime have always been a nice tight fit.
 
Vorsprung durch Technik said:
So it seems you're experiencing what i mentioned, it's not seating fully but still oriented correctly just not tightly? I mention this as other bulbs I've changed during my lifetime have always been a nice tight fit.
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No, all of my bulbs are really tightly held in place. I suspect you've reversed the clip when you re-attached it. How about posting a photo of what you've got?
 
Vorsprung durch Technik said:
So it seams your experiencing what i mentioned, it's not seating fully but still oriented correctly just not tightly? I mention this as other bulbs ive changed during my lifetime have always been a nice tight fit.
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steve_c said:
No, all of my bulbs are really tightly held in place. I suspect you've reversed the clip when you re-attached it. How about posting a photo of what you've got?
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Thanks to your picture above i can see i might have missed the tab there that the retaining wire hooks underneath therefore maintaining a tight fit.?

When you look in there you van hardly see that tab. Anyway all good now and good to know cheers.
 
Had someone flag me down at the lights to tell me his misses likes the car or something? I couldn't really hear the guy.

Does this happen often? Only been driving it a week and I don't know if they're taking the piss or actually like the weird little car.
 
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