What Happened To....

[Jon Bradbury]

...the discussion on the balljoints coming out of the lower suspension arms? I have removed mine so the arms can be electroplated (see picture at the bottom of this page) and was surprised at how little effort was needed to get them out. I thought the topic was pinned somewhere...?

[Joel]

Nice wishbones Jon. I should think it probably works out cheaper than spray-painting them, and a lot less hassle too.

[Mat-Moo]

Think that must of been on the old board as I can't find anything on here.

[Guest Battery Bill]

Jon

I think the one you are looking for is under "Maintenance and modifications" if you look at the posts for the last 90 days and it is in there.

[Mat-Moo]

I guess you mean this http://community.rhocar.org/index.php?a...T&f=10&t=515&s= (Just copy'n'paste the website address of the post to do this!)?

[Guest Battery Bill]

Matt

I had just read elsewhere how to do this and was just about to , you beat me there

cheers

Bill and Joey

[Guest cjbailey]

(see picture at the bottom of this page)

Wow... Not a site with us 56k modem users in mind!

[Mat-Moo]

Wow... Not a site with us 56k modem users in mind!

Come out of the dark ages, you will not regret it he he

[Guest JohnS]

Also see "Bottom ball joints" Posted under Driving on April 5th

 

JohnS

[Guest cjbailey]

Unfortunately I have to stay in the "dark ages". The place where I live is nice and out of the way, and is full of old people. This means that the exchange will not be updated to allow us to have broadband or anything of that nature. ISDN is too unstable for my liking (my 56k connection quite often runs faster than my mates twin ISDN's ).

I do have access to a reasonable internet connection at work, plus the school at which my dad is the ICT co-ordinator has a nice 2Mb line. Thats amazing when all you have plugged into it is a laptop! So I put up with the 56K connection at home (although it does get a bit slow sometimes when you have 3 or 4 computers running on it ).

[Jon Bradbury]

Well... the site is only like that because I don't have the time at present to do something fiddly with thumbnails and frames. Plus, as I already said on this site somewhere, I'm still using Notepad to hack the HTML (how hard is that?).

 

Now, all those other bits that should have been plated by Robin Hood (eg, cycle wing mount brackets, assorted tubes, brackets and other crap) are going to be done as well. There's nothing worse than a nice shiny stainless steel car let down by nasty little bits of corrosion caused by Hammerite chipping off. This is the solution to my greatest worry to date (hurrah!). I just wish I'd got it all done the moment I got the kit back home last December (ie, whilst most of it was still in the bag). A certain abount of dismantling will have to be done now...

 

Cheers

 

JonB

 

PS, I have a 56k modem too...

[Joel]

Come out of the dark ages

 

I heard some good news the other day - my local exchange will be upgraded for high speed internet connection.............at the end of 2004!

 

Doh :angry:

[Guest Battery Bill]

Hey Jon

Its not that hard to use notepad and html to do your website.

Not a hint of extra website software on our site.

Think its your pics may be to high a resolution.

Mind you it loads plenty fast enough on my (Broadband) connection!

Oops sorry

[Jon Bradbury]

If they were any smaller you'd lose the detail. As it is I have to shrink them and I always crop off any background to keep the size down. AS I said, I'd love a poncey site but there is no time...

[Mat-Moo]

To be honest it depends of the compression as well. eg look at the picture below,same dimensions etc. as the original but only 23kb instead of 54kb (41% of the original size) but how much difference can you see? This was of course done using my "Image Sizer" app which will be going shareware soon, so grab your free copy now!