I hope you'll never have to change this hose ;)

[Niels Svane]

So after exchanging the radiator for a new unit, along with flushing and bleeding the system until the heater finally worked, suddenly the heat went away and the fluid slowly disappeared a few weeks ago....

After many a new grey hair, I found out that the bottom hose going from the heater to the waterpump was reduced to some mushy substance at the water pump mount....
The tightening ring was also gone to a better place.

So today I got a new hose and in 5 degrees C and light rain it took 1 friggin' hour to get the hoses exchanged.

I wouldn't have my worst enemy do that job with everything except the airfilter in place!

Along with that it has begun shuddering at gearchanges and rough changes in speeder-position. As I am aware that means either new driveshafts, or swapping the two driveshafts.
Also the car sometimes pull to the right when braking, so these small problems are the tasks for next spring

What about you guys? Has any small or large problems been looked to these weeks?

 

[harbourseal]

Last week I started with changing the rear axle. Only to find out I had not measured the torsion bars well.
I bought one that was 20.6mm and one that was 18.9mm.
Bummer.
Shelved the project to go and find two torsion bars with the same thickness.
This weekend I got my hands on two F6 torsion bars.
And today I started with installation.
Torsion bars are in place now. If everything goes well it isn't such a big job.
Friday I will finish this small project. And I'll be driving my trusted F6 again.
Next job will be installing a spaghetti exhaust manifold and an Abarth exhaust.