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But this one is missing the bit

So i refurbed my rear calipers but when i was removing the bracket thingy on the back a piece popped off. This one is fine -

Yes pal, quite easy actually once id managed to get the pistons out the fronts. I was getting annoyed as i thought i would have to take them to a garage with an air gun but i managed to bodge an old tyre inflator onto a battery to do it. I have a video but not sure how to upload it

Finished. Just need to fill up fluids and do a brake bleed and its good to go. New chains, clutch, ball joints, track rods, bearings, discs, pads, hard lines, braided flexy hoses, piston seals and boots, slider pins, abs sensors. Flippin loads !! Im nackered.

Ooooh yeaaaahh !!!

Spent the evening scrubbing my arches before i put the liners back in, good feeling seeing the blue shine through and that they are solid !! Also got new hard lines and should be picking up my braided lines tonight. Its back on track !!

ok thanks for the info and the offer of help buddy, i might have found someone who can lend me a flaring tool so i will give it a try, im just writing on my hand - UNION ON FIRST !!

I'm in Nuneaton near Coventry pal, i bit far away from you in Essex. How does the brake flaring tool work ? theres a couple of inches of hard pipe in the wheel arch, would it be possible to flare an end back onto the piping thats left in the wheel arch ? or does the tool need quite a bit of space to work its magic ? where's the best place to get the ends and piping from anyways ?

Shiny new parts going on which is great but i am a bit gutted at the minute. I initially decided to do everything with the date in stanford hall in mind and everything was going well but then a few things have put me back. I noticed that i had a split in a brake flexi hose, so spoke to a guy about getting a braided set made up so i bit the bullet, he said all he needed was my flexi pipes off the car and would make a set to match. The rears came off fine but then i sheared the end off one of the hard lines on the front and rounded off the other side. Now there is no way i will be done in time for stanford hall. It was all going so well, everything was going on brilliant, (albeit awkward, the car is only on some small stands so i am spending alot of time underneath with my nose literally pressing against the sump) i can see that replacing the hard line is going to be a massive ball ache to fit now that everything else is pretty much back on the car. All i had left to do was put a lick of paint on the callipers and refit and get an alignment done, now i massively cant be arsed so will probably just spend the entire bank holiday weekend like a male bridget jones, watching crap tv and eating ice cream whilst silently sobbing into my lambrini.

cheers bud i'll give it a bash

OK can someone help before i lose my mind. ive done quite a bit of work to the car and had everything stripped in the drivers side wheel arch - hub, brakes, strut, track rods - so all that was left was the driveshaft with outer cv staring at me. I unbolted the inner CV from the gearbox but then trying to pull the whole thing out via the wheel arch was a no go because the gap between car and subframe is too small to fit the inner or outer CV through. so i took the outer cv off and slid the assembly back through the gap under the car to get it off then i faffed like a noob trying to get stuff off then back on with my new cv boots and rebuilt the whole assembly and only realised lying in bed last night i will have to take one end apart again to refit it the same way i removed it. unless im missing something - can i jack the engine up on the drivers side to create enough clearance to get it in there ?? :scratch:

Man this is dragging along, i dont think im going to get it done in time for stanford hall this weekend. Gutted. I spent all evening just doing both cv boots on driver side. Not a job ive done before so chuffed ive done it but it took me hours. I just could not get the flipping c clip back on. That on its own took an hour and a half :(

And i apologise for the terrible picture.

If we are talking about the same thing then its the two bolts in pink, then it should pull up in the direction of my pink arrow off of its locating pin which is roughly where my pink cross is. I regret using the colour pink

what he said ^^ undo the 2 bolts and with no tensioner bolt on there hopefully there sould be enough slack to slide the guide rail up and off its locating pin and out.

I mean the support beam is for sale. NOT the car, this ones for keeps !!

These things aint even heavy !!

Engine support beam doing its thing, i will be selling this now im finished with it if anyones interested