2 x 50 mile round trips to pick my brother up for Christmas dinner and take him home again. Luckily my daughter turned up before I left first time which made me late thus avoiding the accident that closed the motorway. Then my brother made us late taking him home thus avoiding another accident on my return journey home. Lot's of dickheads out today so no surprise, just glad someone up there's looking out for me.
 
2 x 50 mile round trips to pick my brother up for Christmas dinner and take him home again. Luckily my daughter turned up before I left first time which made me late thus avoiding the accident that closed the motorway. Then my brother made us late taking him home thus avoiding another accident on my return journey home. Lot's of dickheads out today so no surprise, just glad someone up there's looking out for me.
I'd considered getting out on my bike today.. perhaps I'm glad i didn't!!
 
I think you could be right, there was even one knob doing 30mph on a pretty empty stretch of motorway :eek:
Maybe they'd made it to there from my way. We were behind someone doing 30ish in the 50 limit heading out from Macc past Alderley. Luckily I got past before the Alderley bypass, but they were definitely heading that way. They had just left the pub at 2pm so I suspect the road was wobbling about a bit for them in a different way to if they were sober....
 
Maybe they'd made it to there from my way. We were behind someone doing 30ish in the 50 limit heading out from Macc past Alderley. Luckily I got past before the Alderley bypass, but they were definitely heading that way. They had just left the pub at 2pm so I suspect the road was wobbling about a bit for them in a different way to if they were sober....

This was about 7pm just passed heaton park heading toward Bury so 5 hours later. Maybe they stopped for a nap on the hard shoulder somwhere :D
 
Finished off the clean. Removed the pollen filters and ordered some more inc a plenum filter. Bonded a door seal back on and checked the fluids ;)
 
Took about 5 hours to change one rear airbag. Fitting the new one only took about 30 minutes, including finding the trolley jack to fully seat the axle end and get the pin in.
Rest of the time was spent trying to get the old one out. Corroded and seized collet for the airline took quite a while, but no apparent damage to the line. Bottom corroded pin sheared quickly enough with the aid of a lump hammer and brick bolster, and the plate cleaned up nicely. Trying to get enough leverage and access to the top to get it out was a nightmare. The pin was rusted away on the exposed bits on the accessible side and just sheared as soon as I tried pulling it with the hook, but the projecting bit on the back was solid enough to be an absolute horror to lever the bag enough to break, while still being solid enough to bend the plate and need it beating back flat for the new bag.
Needless to say the new bag has new stainless pins fitted with lots of anti-seize compound.
Since most 2 sided jobs seem to have a bitch side and an easy side, I really hope this one was the bitch one. Will find out if the promised break in the weather happens on Thursday to have a go at the other side.
 
Remove the airline first. My airbag replacement guide is in the archive.
I made a tool for pulling the top pins out from reebar but some people have found they have to cut and them punch them out if the air springs have the metal end caps.

Beware cutting them. There's a wider part where it goes into the bag and there's not that much extra pipe and you don't know if it has already been done. Last resort stuff.

As Data says,best if you can do it first but it is possible to do it under the car once the bag is free.
 
Took about 5 hours to change one rear airbag. Fitting the new one only took about 30 minutes, including finding the trolley jack to fully seat the axle end and get the pin in.
Rest of the time was spent trying to get the old one out. Corroded and seized collet for the airline took quite a while, but no apparent damage to the line. Bottom corroded pin sheared quickly enough with the aid of a lump hammer and brick bolster, and the plate cleaned up nicely. Trying to get enough leverage and access to the top to get it out was a nightmare. The pin was rusted away on the exposed bits on the accessible side and just sheared as soon as I tried pulling it with the hook, but the projecting bit on the back was solid enough to be an absolute horror to lever the bag enough to break, while still being solid enough to bend the plate and need it beating back flat for the new bag.
Needless to say the new bag has new stainless pins fitted with lots of anti-seize compound.
Since most 2 sided jobs seem to have a bitch side and an easy side, I really hope this one was the bitch one. Will find out if the promised break in the weather happens on Thursday to have a go at the other side.

Sounds like the ones on my scrapper.

I've noticed all the coolant is missing from teb scrapper since the weather warmed up. I never thought to check what its antifreeze mix was. I have a horrible feeling that -10°C has killed the rad but I daren't put more in until the Spring now.
 

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