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Apparently the new caliper has now arrived back home.  Sadly I'm currently 3,500 miles away from the car so it'll need to wait for attention! Whether that caliper gets sent off along with the original one for inspection and any necessary rebuild work will depend on what it looks like.  I may well se...

Currently away from home in the US, so will have nothing to report car wise for a bit. Though assuming the part numbers are correct I *should* have a factory rebuilt ATE brake caliper for the Cavalier on the way. So when I'm back I should be able to get the ball rolling there. If it looks like the c...

This afternoon I played chicken with the weather. This was rapidly bearing down on my position. https://i.ibb.co/YB128Sr/Screenshot-20220924-163746-edit-316924917787056.jpg Mission was simple: Get the offside brake caliper off the Cavalier so I could get the pair sent off to be rebuilt. In a rare sh...

Although the system used in Invacars differs from that used by Dafs the principles are the same in that there should always be some tension on the belt, even when at rest. To achieve this the secondary pulley should always have a slight gap when in "low" ratio and this is 1mm in a Daf 33. This shou...

After a certain amount of patience, brute force, swearing and assistance from compressed air (seriously, how did I function without having compressed air on tap in the garage?) we have had some success getting movement out of the caliper I've taken off the Cavalier. https://i.ibb.co/6X45K6R/IMG-2022...

It's been a little while since I've had time to do an update so time for a bit of a catch up. Giving the engine bay a bit of a clean up had been very much on the wishlist since the day the Cavalier arrived. It really wasn't bad given the age of the car, but nevertheless was grubby enough that whenev...

Unsurprisingly not been much going on over the weekend between initially having guests arrive then immediately being plunged into isolation when one of them tested positive for COVID on the first evening here. Not really the weekend we'd planned. This afternoon I escaped outside for an hour though d...

Today was the day of waiting for tradesmen who were meant to be coming to do survey/quote work. Out of the four, one turned up. So I was left with a day where I couldn't really go anywhere or do anything major as I was waiting for them. Of course the one who did turn up did so within two minutes of ...

A box of goodies arrived yesterday morning for the Cavalier. https://i.ibb.co/VTm1sB0/IMG-20220825-114121.jpg Which despite the best efforts of Yodel who judging from the condition of the outer box had defaulted to "drop it from low earth orbit" as the preferred delivery method, all appeared intact....

Not been much to report lately as I've been rather busy elsewhere. Simply put, trying to unearth the room we refer to as The Purple Room. This is a room which juts off from the side of our lounge (it basically is a second lounge). It's always been something of a dumping ground, but with the move to ...

Had a spare hour this afternoon so got a bit of tinkering on the Cavalier done. Surprisingly the heater blower motor had freed up while it was stewing in penetrant, so I quickly threw that back together for testing. https://i.ibb.co/1zPrMmJ/IMG-20220817-152810.jpg This was then left to run under car...

QL is now back together and working again. Does indeed look like a new machine again. Plus the gritty keyboard action has been resolved. Don't get me wrong, it still wasn't ever going to have IBM worrying about the sales figures for the Model M, but it's entirely usable. For all it's flaws it really...

Quick job today was to bridge the broken bit of the vent line from the fuel tank. Oddly just one bit had gone crispy and shattered, the rest of the tube is perfectly pliable. So just stuffed a bit of fuel line to replace that little part. https://i.ibb.co/6RkWrLR/IMG-20220812-155550.jpg Apparently t...

Time to take a little look at the Cavalier. First up, I of course have my priorities right and had to fix this. Before: https://i.ibb.co/tLcxRnz/IMG-20220810-191237.jpg After: https://i.ibb.co/YNmX0qF/IMG-20220811-175134.jpg Doesn't that look so much less neglected now? Some further observations. []...

Moderately busy day today. It started out helping a friend carry some parts for a car they were having delivered today. The Caddy is supremely useful at times like this. https://i.ibb.co/ZcJMQxw/IMG-20220810-101318.jpg With that car deposited it made sense to also pick up something I've been waiting...