Chief
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Well as some of you good people know, I purchased 'The Red Baron' just before Christmas. PeterS and I had a whizz around Oulton Park and managed to spin at the end of the main straight. This lead to us questioning the brakes (ABS pump, sensors etc..). I decided to start by cleaning up sensors and various earthing points in the luggage compartment. So to get started I thought give under the arches a good clean so I could see what I was doing...
After a few hours getting soaked, I was staring to get somewhere.
Some tyre rubbing but it is lower than a snakes belly!
Cleaned all the ABS sensors and that's when it started to get out of hand.
You see, when I reconnected the battery I had an alarm screaming at me from somewhere in the scuttle area. This would be fine if I had a remote control to disarm it well cutting to the chase I have now removed from the wiring loom 4 separate alarm systems! I guess as each broke an new one was installed leaving the old one too it's own devises...
So I ordered the correct loom tape from Germany and basically spent a month re soldering and replacing quite a large part of the loom. To do this meant taking out the Roll Cage, seats, carpet and a lot of the dash.
Now whilst I was at it I thought maybe I could get the trim modified to remove all the seat belt exits from the rear parcel shelf and rear quarter panels (More of this later).......
Anyway, we were looking at the brakes but got somewhat side tracked :grin: Well the calipers took some time to identify as the faces had been machined off (I guess to make them look more modern). After some considerable effort (Thanks to Boxey, Thomas from Porsche Calipers and a few others on Rennlist) they are now identified as C2 fronts with 993 C4 rears. Anyway I digress...
I removed the said calipers and spent nine hours removing the pad plates!
And bleed nips!
I ended up with a rag tag collection of brakes to go over to the blasters.
Popped them over to a good friend of mine who lives for painting
So onto the back plates, handbrake shoes and cables.
The damage from the track spin was next. The front jacking point had been smashed clean off and was embedded into the side skirt. So let's get the welding kit out.
Now fixed and in top coat.
Next was to paint the rear arch which had been rubbed by the tyre during the 'Off'
Then I noticed that the oil thermastat was looking very cruddy.
Now the more I looked the more I saw, so oil tank out
Fortunately no rot behind. So onto removing the crud and paint from the tank.
Right, this as far as I have got at the moment, I have ordered two of the biggest spanners to remove the oil pipes (32 & 36mm Zombie Bashers). If they turn up for the weekend I will be crossing my fingers that I can remove the corroded pipework (They are as rusty as Sponge Bob's door knocker!) and remove the front oil rad as it looks like it's took a bash in the spin. I don't mean to bore anyone, I know a few of the guy's on here are doing something similar, but a few people have wandered where I've been. I will carry on adding to this thread if there is interest. If not I'll carry on quietly bashing at the Barron.
:bye:
After a few hours getting soaked, I was staring to get somewhere.
Some tyre rubbing but it is lower than a snakes belly!
Cleaned all the ABS sensors and that's when it started to get out of hand.
You see, when I reconnected the battery I had an alarm screaming at me from somewhere in the scuttle area. This would be fine if I had a remote control to disarm it well cutting to the chase I have now removed from the wiring loom 4 separate alarm systems! I guess as each broke an new one was installed leaving the old one too it's own devises...
So I ordered the correct loom tape from Germany and basically spent a month re soldering and replacing quite a large part of the loom. To do this meant taking out the Roll Cage, seats, carpet and a lot of the dash.
Now whilst I was at it I thought maybe I could get the trim modified to remove all the seat belt exits from the rear parcel shelf and rear quarter panels (More of this later).......
Anyway, we were looking at the brakes but got somewhat side tracked :grin: Well the calipers took some time to identify as the faces had been machined off (I guess to make them look more modern). After some considerable effort (Thanks to Boxey, Thomas from Porsche Calipers and a few others on Rennlist) they are now identified as C2 fronts with 993 C4 rears. Anyway I digress...
I removed the said calipers and spent nine hours removing the pad plates!
And bleed nips!
I ended up with a rag tag collection of brakes to go over to the blasters.
Popped them over to a good friend of mine who lives for painting
So onto the back plates, handbrake shoes and cables.
The damage from the track spin was next. The front jacking point had been smashed clean off and was embedded into the side skirt. So let's get the welding kit out.
Now fixed and in top coat.
Next was to paint the rear arch which had been rubbed by the tyre during the 'Off'
Then I noticed that the oil thermastat was looking very cruddy.
Now the more I looked the more I saw, so oil tank out
Fortunately no rot behind. So onto removing the crud and paint from the tank.
Right, this as far as I have got at the moment, I have ordered two of the biggest spanners to remove the oil pipes (32 & 36mm Zombie Bashers). If they turn up for the weekend I will be crossing my fingers that I can remove the corroded pipework (They are as rusty as Sponge Bob's door knocker!) and remove the front oil rad as it looks like it's took a bash in the spin. I don't mean to bore anyone, I know a few of the guy's on here are doing something similar, but a few people have wandered where I've been. I will carry on adding to this thread if there is interest. If not I'll carry on quietly bashing at the Barron.
:bye: