Caffeine's dodgy day (Sydney, Saturday July 26)

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:55 am

Anyone else who wants directions get in quick :0 It's poets day so i won't be looking at the forum much (need to clean the garage!)

Garry · Postby **Garry** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:04 am

PM sent

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:18 am

And replied (after fiddling for 10 minutes trying to get the forum to let me log in!)

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:14 pm

If anyone has folding chairs (I have 6 chairs down there) axle stands (I have 4 but they'll be holding my car up) or any other tools / equipment they think would be useful, bring it along!

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:09 pm

Forgot to mention, it's best to enter our street from the new canterbury road end, the other end has nasty speedhumps... :shock:

Fuzzlet · Postby **Fuzzlet** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:18 pm

Unfortunately got to go to a lunch with family, but *may* be able to come along and say hi to people

Fuzzlet · Postby **Fuzzlet** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:48 pm

Well I got out of having to go to lunch, so headed off to the dodgy day....unfortunately and old woman in a Toyota Klugar had other ideas for me....see here for more info...

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 10:25 pm

yikes! that's no good! :shock:

ampz · Postby **ampz** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:49 am

Nice day Liam.

I just popped by with nothing better to do other than plugging back on the hose for my IAC valve :oops:

How did the rest of the day go (you had fluids left to do yeah?)

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:22 pm

ampz wrote:How did the rest of the day go (you had fluids left to do yeah?)

Did transmission & diff fluids, and then redid the coolant (I bought demineralised water but forgot to use it! :oops:

so my coolant came out and went into sliq's radiator, and then new coolant with demineralised water went into mine)

Didn't get a chance to fit the braided brake lines, or flush the power steering fluid, but they're no biggies...

Thanks for giving me a drive of your car, it's very nicely sorted! that new clutch should make it better again

Most annoying part of the day was Mazda's decision to use 24mm bolts for the drain & fill plugs on the gearbox, and the drain plug on the diff, but then to fit a 23mm bolt for the fill plug on the diff! Who has a 23mm socket these days? :roll:

zawrilla · Postby **zawrilla** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:22 pm

Caffeine wrote:Most annoying part of the day was Mazda's decision to use 24mm bolts for the drain & fill plugs on the gearbox, and the drain plug on the diff, but then to fit a 23mm bolt for the fill plug on the diff! Who has a 23mm socket these days?

You do now!!

Garry · Postby **Garry** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:40 am

I just wanted to say a big thanks to Caffeinne for providing the venue for the dodgy day. I didn't do any work to my car and only called in to say g'day but it's really nice of people like Caffeine, Big Dog, Stan the Man and the other guys in the other states to open up their garages for us to have these events to play with our cars and say g'day. Thanks guys.