Recent content by richard_rip

The cross member with steering rack and ARB back on, ready to be bolted back on the car. I fitted new boots on the rack, ARB bushes and clamps, and a new seal for the steering column. Everything was given a flipping good clean before reassembly. The threads on the ends of the tie rods were a...

Driveshaft after powder coating and rebuild. New boots and intermediate bearing fitted. I even bought myself the special pliers so that I could use the proper clamps on the boots, any excuse to buy a new piece of kit haha. Knuckles were shot blasted and sprayed. I fitted new hubs as the old...

Thanks :grin: Thanks, getting hold of parts is becoming more and more difficult. The fronts? they are indeed. The rears are cast steel, they came from a 2.0 focus.

I ran into a problem when the front shocks were stripped for painting, as you can see the thread had rusted away quite badly. In fact it had gone from 12mm in diameter down to just below 11mm at its worst. I was really unsure what to do here, I couldn't get hold of new original shocks and I...

After much money parted with, and lots of scraping, cleaning and rebuilding. This is what my office at work looked like :grin: New drop links were added to the list of new parts as well as ABS sensors, and top mounts Chris Allison Sorted the wishbones for me, I got on with the hubs and...

The work above ended just behind the sub frame mounts, the plan was to do the front end and mid section at a later date. This summer I had the bright idea of refurbing the wishbones, thinking it would be an easy job. I suppose that job in itself would have been an easy job, but one thing lead...

It's been a while since my last update. Since Feb 2018 I've got divorced, moved house and bought the company I've worked for since 2010, plus the whole pandemic stuff. Fortunately my company has been pretty busy over the various lockdowns. Anyway, back to the FRP. Last November it went into...

They’re both shot really, I could get the springs blasted and recoated, but the shocks are past it

I’ve spoken to someone at Gaz, given that they will make the set to order they can do things like keep the ride height the same etc. They seem to get good reviews

I’ve come to the conclusion/realisation that I’m not going to be able to keep it original. What are others doing to replace shocks? The only company I can see that sell coil overs for the FRP is Gaz, but I have no experience with them so don’t know the quality

My FRP is in need of new rear shocks but Eibach don’t supply them anymore. What are others running on their FRP? I contacted Eibach and they suggested getting in touch with Bilstein but I was trying to keep the car as original as possible

I fitted and ST150 clutch to my FRP using the slave for the Puma. Fitted perfect and it’s been great since fitting, I did surface grind the flywheel though to make sure it was flat

Got a problem with the ABS/TC on my FRP. When you start the car the abs comes on and goes out. If I then get the TC to kick by pulling off quickly or really hit the brakes hard and get the ABS to fire then the light comes on the dash and the system errors. When I start the car again the light...

I'm after a bit of help. I was working on my Puma over the xmas break and I've lost the little clip that holds the clutch hydraulic pipe into the slave. Anyone know where I can get one without buying a new slave?

It's definitely a point to think about/debate. It's not so much the extra shear force I'd be concerned about but rather the tension going through the bolt. The head on an M10 hex head is 18mm so 1 degree over that is 0.31mm, is this enough to worry about? Obviously the amout would get bigger...