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This is my brake servo.

rip small hammer always in are hearts xxx

Link to embedded video 🎵 Well I don't need more guilt here in my life How the hell is that supposed to help me find the light?

Video contains strong language.

I love good documentation.

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Can't hate her for it.

Previously, I had visited the remnants of bridge MMR/2333 in Magdalen to document them, as their demolition seemed to be imminent.

The weekend before last, Mazda Amy started making a scary knocking noise at about 2000 RPM upwards when the engine was warm.

25,000 mile update (December 2025): four and a half years later, this engine is still working perfectly.

Link to embedded video 🎵 Ain't that some bullshit?

On the weekend that has most recently passed, my mission was to find out exactly how bad or good Penny the P5 is.

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I've been thinking about a backup car for Amy, my Mazda 323 GTX, for quite a while now.

You just saw a photograph of a freight train.

This was my mum's Mercedes 220.

Mazda Amy has a new windscreen.

Link.

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Word came my way (via notable railway explorer Paul Whitewick) that The Highways Agency's Historical Railway Estate were looking to demolish a bunch of former railway structures.

What my credit card looks like, as of a few days ago: I won't even tell you what it was a year or so ago.

Yeah, I know she's an old shit car, that she has her scars, and that she's probably not pretty to anyone but me.

Today, I lost my wallet.

I now have a Fuji X100.

Today, I decided to take a look at the Gaz rear suspension that I removed a few days shy of two months ago.

The backroads were rather fun this weekend.

This is a quick recommendation for the XP-Pen G640 drawing tablet, for those fellow Linux users who like to do a bit of a scribble.

Edit (March 2021): Change of plan.

So the alignment is done, and the figures in the photo showed that I didn't do a terribly bad job with my bottle-jack alignment.

This week's problem: extremely low engine idle speed.

The title understates the success of my weekend.

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So I joked at the start of the previous episode about things going smoothly and as expected until they do not go as expected, but the rears really did go as expected.

Fitting new coilovers (to old cars, at least) is dead easy; this job was four bolts on each shock, everything comes undone easily enough, everything fits perfectly and just works and ha ha just kidding you know that wasn't going to happen on this car.

The "ouch, that's money I didn't really have" K-Sport suspension is, finally, here.

This, known as bastet to its friends, has been around since at least 2005.

It took me five years to find one of these in usable condition.

So everyone from Britain of a certain age will remember a particular advert for Werther's Originals: Link to embedded video It's calming.

The only positive side effect of my Facebook account reactivating itself (it is now scheduled for permanent deletion, since Facebook won't play nice) is that I got to find out about a car meet on Saturday with Only Fools & Motors over at the Coach & Horses

There are a lot of posts & questions & other things in various places online wherein people are complaining about this happening to them.

...this seems like a good idea.

Surprise, she's off the road again due to another issue that surfaced yesterday.

My brother Alex came over in his E30 to make my driveway look much cooler. 80s car friends, yay!

Small victory: Mazda Amy has a working clutch!

I know, it is the Current Year, you don't need to worry about disk space.