What have you bought for your Zed this week?

A new near side wing/door mirror! Cost a fortune and didn’t even come with the glass mirror! ….still I can look at my left hump again!😊
 
Oh yes I almost forgot and a drivers door window regulator so I can do the old up down thing with the window again👍🏼😁
 
Z Victor 1 said:
Salmon relays bought and fitted today. Next job getting a wheel off! Thought I'd have a look at one of the rear calipers to see how much cleaning they'll need before painting, but it's seized on the hub. So tomorrow is getting wheels off for a start. I always put some copper grease on the surface before fitting, pity the previous owner didn't!View attachment 305755
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Depends on where you put the grease. I spent many years as a commercial tyre fitter, and had to take sledge-hammers to lorry wheels far too often. You'd be better off running a flapwheel in the bore of the wheel to shift any corrosion from there, and then give give the centre of the hub a good go with a wire brush till that's clean, then put the grease around the spigot part of the hub, never on the mating face where the wheel and hub meet. Putting grease on the mating faces will reduce the friction in there, and I've seen the results of wheels falling off once (or twice) too often.
 
Only ever put grease on the hub spigot, after it's been cleaned. Nothing on the flat mating surfaces, not even thick paint.

Tony.
 
I just put a smear on and wipe over with a cloth, never had a problem in the last 58 years, but I do check my wheels regularly. Never had a wheel stuck on, but I've had bolts that wouldn't budge quite a few times after they were overtightened by a tyre fitter.
 
Just a couple of points worth mentioning, 'friction' occurs when two surfaces move in relation to each other. If two objects are fixed together, like a wheel and a hub for example, there is no friction. Secondly, when dissimilar metals like aluminium and steel are cleanly fitted together in a dry environment this is not normally a problem. However, if an electrolyte like dirty or more especially salty water is present then this can result in galvanic corrosion. This is what causes alloy wheels to become 'stuck' on the hub. A barrier such as a film of grease helps prevent the reaction known as galvanic corrosion.
 
Planning a significant refresh with valve cover+vanos anti-rattle with my upcoming oil change and new sparks/coils :hungry:
Then I will do a dyno to see out of curiosity how many horses I managed to salvage🤞

Forgot to mention that I am at 205000km right now that is why I thought I might do a VANOS refresh... 🫠
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Pflege. 'Fleeger'. I never liked german at school, mainly because my teacher used to slap me round the head every time I didn't pronounce words with an 'umlaut' correctly. :confused:
 
Z Victor 1 said:
Pflege. 'Fleeger'. I never liked german at school, mainly because my teacher used to slap me round the head every time I didn't pronounce words with an 'umlaut' correctly. :confused:
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tsk, youngsters. We got the blackboard eraser, ruler thrown at us middle of forehead and middle knuckle down the back of the head. Happy days, character building :whistle: o_O o_O
 
German is a phoentic language.

Say 'flayger' with a geordie accent ie without pronouncing the Y and you'll be almost there.

Or maybe it's my welsh/geordie/german accent makes me say it wrong.
 
Go to germany and ask for a "gummi fleeger" and you'll likely get one of these.

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As in "Rubber Flyer". (Flieger)

Having asked my daughter, a real german, she even pronounces the P in pflege.
 
OR, you could ask for this. Simpler, safer and slightly cheaper.
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Tony.
 
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