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pulling the old sticker off the boot lock bung damaged the paint, so I masked it off primered and painted it. was the wrong paint can colour but a minor thing wirebrushed & painted the rusty front panel to be a little bit nicer this old drivers door seal was previously glued on...

2024-04-01 Test LED Underglow Battery Life During the upcoming long car shows like Japfest Silverstone I didn't wanna rely on draining the main battery after leaving the lights & stereo on all day, potentially ending up with a dead battery when coming home or shortening it's lifespan. Instead...

2024-04-01 New Bench Grinder I didn't like how the new grinding wheels were loose on the old grinder shaft (cos the old shaft was wobbly from poor Q/C & I had to machine it smaller) so I brought another cheap £25 grinder from local screwfix new one aint' 100% perfect but does highlight how...

The old GREY generic bench grinding wheels was struggling with sharpening my HSS cutting tools, turns out I'm suppose to use White Alu Oxide wheels for HSS so I brought one off ebay They grind through HSS a little quicker :cool: Spent the weekend organising & counting the mess of Micra...

Reinstalled the heatshield under the gear stick to stop the exhaust from cooking my gear selector bearings

2024-03-30 Rebuild & Replace Door Mirrors For the past few yrs my passenger mirror was always too shakey to view, and now I have enough collection of mirrors to help fix it The passenger mirror uses an earlier 'sliding latch' attachment to detach, you first push from the inner-side to...

Ordered a pair of NTN 4T-30208 bearings for the LSD diff and a SKF 6305/C3 to fix the rattling old input shaft bearing Visited Jack nearby to help diagnose & mend his facelift K11 idle/timing issue & in return he supplied me with some free spare bits I needed like: *door mirrors (my was...

On my prefacelift it's the big black box behind the flasher unit shown in my pic with the two plugs underneath it

Ah yes, I just re-read your symptoms & restudied the diagrams again and it I think you're right. Something attached to the indicator/hazard circuit (ie aftermarket alarm and/or central locking wired into the left/right indicator switch circuit) is sending 12v to both sides randomly, even if not...

Sounds like a faulty Flasher Unit relay located next to steering column / central locking / fusebox

Gave Jack a lift down to Whitby today where he's buying another Micra 😁 Kassandra drives alot smoother now without the old annoying hidden buzzes & rattles 😅

2024-03-27 Replace Rear Speakers For the past few months the rear right exposed speaker must have got some debris stuck inside the coil because it distorts above a certain volume whereas the other 3 speakers are fine. Ordered a new pair of rear speakers arrived today Gonna use the...

Removed the old single gas-strut The old ball-joint sat too low at 15mm, making the strut rub against the chassis top. It needed lifting to 20mm high. the spare factory ball-joints sits too low so I grinded those off welded them to a new bracket 20mm high Riveting the new brackets on...

2024-03-26 Lathe Ball-Turning Jig I wanted to fit a 2nd bonnet gas-strut but thought I didn't have any spare ball-joints, so decided to design a lathe jig for making spheres, using some spare round billet steel in the garage machined this left over billet down to 13mm thick drilled the...

printed this simple bracket for mounting the wideband gauge under the dash neater rather than screwed to the bottom corner

thx m8

today only had enough juice to polish the exhaust tip and begin removing stickers off the boot for a cleaner look

I imagine the white oxide would increase the overall resistance of the HT circuit by a small amount. at low rpm / load it probably won't be noticeable, it'll still spark ok for combustion but near peak torque / high rpm it might affect the AFR / timing by a tiny amount.

2024-03-23 Flat Bottom Drill Bit The next tool to make in prep for machining the LSD cover plate is a 6mm - 12mm flat bottom drill bit for making the 17 screw holes. It needs to feature a 6mm pilot hole to help keep it concentric, so I decided to modify an old step-drill bit on the lathe...

today went for a brief cars & coffee meet up with some m8s back at home I cleaned up the white oxide off the dizzy cap, hopefully improve spark & AFR