Been working on Fiona's car.

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Don
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I'm impressed with how easy these MX6s are to work on. Everything is easily accessable and layed out in a logical manner. Well, everything apart from the mental hand brake actuator on the rear calipers. Much studying of the Book 'O' Lies and smoking of tabs was required to work out how the piston retracts. I also beat it with a few spanners of differing sizes.

I'm also impressed by the cheapness of the parts.
Over the last 2 weeks I've bought:

Pair of front disks
Pair of rear disks
Pads all round
Air filter
Dizzy cap
Rotor arm
6 sparkies
Gas struts for boot lid
Big Book 'O' Lies (Haynes Manual)

All that lot came to £210

I bled the clutch system too which was an incredibly easy job. On every other car it's been a case of lying on ones back and having arms that bend in 6 places to reach the bleed nipple. This is actually what the Book 'O' Lies said to do. On inspection I could see that removing the fans off the back of the rad meant I could access the nipple with my own, single jointed arms from the top of the engine bay. Awesome.
The fluid looked like Coca-Cola when it came out so it was probably good that I changed it.

After a day changing brakes, bleeding fluids and setting pedal heights I only sustained 3 injuries which is a record for me.
2 doses of idiot rash on my right hand
One brusise on my head from lying on my back, upside-down with my head in the driver's foot well. I banged my head on the crusie control lockout switch on the way down.
 
Sounds excellent! It's always nice to know you can work on a car simply for maintainence stuff like that - lucky guy with the clutch bleed, mine's INSIDE the transmission tunnel on the top!

RE workshop incidentes, yesterday, whilst transplanting the engine in the project car, the engine crane slid off it's rails and I stopped a 3 tonne engine crane replete with engine with my head (the crane arm hit me first)....didn't even see it coming, knocked me clean into the wall!

Somehow, not a scratch on me! Must breed 'em tough round here :D
 
Malachy said:
its the "americanization" that seems to be taking over turning the word distributer into a "dizzy"
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??
I've always called it a dizzy cap. My dad calls it a dizzy cap too.

Faster than saying distributer
 
yup always been a dizzy cap to me too.

damn cheap parts for a Jap car! The disks cant be small for the MX6 either. Im impressed.
 
D4VE said:
yup always been a dizzy cap to me too.

damn cheap parts for a Jap car! The disks cant be small for the MX6 either. Im impressed.
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Shares most parts with Ford Probe. Saying that the Mazda parts are actually cheaper than the Ford parts.
 
Phantom said:
Whats a dizzy cap for, is it like a 710 cap?
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No, it's an invisible magnetic hat that attracts large steel items, such as spanners, axle stands and engine cranes. The attracted articles often connect with the hat at a high velocity, resulting in dizzyness and blured vision. These hats are often worn when working on a vehicle in a tight or awkward space. They are placed on your head without you realising, by the Garage Pixies.

NB. Garage Pixies are not to be confused with Tool Sprites, which are those invisible creatures that move any required tool from wherever you put it down 2 minutes ago, to some other inexplicable location, resulting in a 10 minute hunt every time you need it again.
 
volospian said:
No, it's an invisible magnetic hat that attracts large steel items, such as spanners, axle stands and engine cranes. The attracted articles often connect with the hat at a high velocity, resulting in dizzyness and blured vision. These hats are often worn when working on a vehicle in a tight or awkward space. They are placed on your head without you realising, by the Garage Pixies.

NB. Garage Pixies are not to be confused with Tool Sprites, which are those invisible creatures that move any required tool from wherever you put it down 2 minutes ago, to some other inexplicable location, resulting in a 10 minute hunt every time you need it again.
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So true!! lol
 
I hate Tool Sprites. They've stolen all 3 of my 14mm 1/2" drive sockets. I swear that they also eat side cutters and wire brushes because I can never find them when I need them.
Either that or there is a pile somewhere in my garage where there are 20 sets of side cutters and 15 wire brushes.
 
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