Nollington Hards progress blog

[Gary406]

sounding good mate. hows the seats holding out ?

[NollingtonHards]

Holding out fine mate. I got to properly fix the rear arm rest as for some reason the screw wouldn't go in (no idea why) but apart from that there brilliant. Much nicer than their grey cloth counterparts by a mile ha

[NollingtonHards]

I ordered some Apex 40mm springs last night so should be on the car within the week

[Gary406]

should make it look sweet mate but at the same time ride ruff

[NollingtonHards]

Im used to a rough ride (insert joke here) but i have got used to my mates slammed cars.

I dont have a photo of my mates polo thats on the floor but i do of my other mates slammed 190e


Four of us went to skegness in his car and we had to get out and walk beside the car over speed bumps as it was too low to go over ha

[NollingtonHards]

Nothing much today. Spent it helping my mate spray the inside of his half stripped polo (the rest of the car will be stripped soon)

It looks good for rattle cans and near minimal preparation

Also fixed my un opening fuel filler cap with a bodge, but it still looks flush when its closed so no complaints


Hes coming over to mine tommorow and helping me spray & de-rust the under side of my bonnet black

Also my lowering springs are about 20 miles away from me in a depot but they aren't getting delivered 'til monday

[Gary406]

ive been spraying my wiper blade arms today. well lacquer went on today. its just a case of taking your time in between coats and not getting carried away and putting to much on in 1 go.

[NollingtonHards]

Postman Pat dropped off my springs today



Should be going on wednesday

Also re-touched my strut brace but got no photos

[NollingtonHards]

Well i had a long day today. We took about 2 hours dropping the first strut, lost all the transmission fluid ha but the offside is done.

Many thanks to my enginering team who were paid with pizza
The nearside top strut mount turns out to have dis integrated due to rust over the years so had to order a new one that should be coming tommorow. Only got one photo but it was awful

The ring according to my friend is suppose to house bearings and we couldnt see any ha


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Early start again tommorow get the rear done then the new top mount

[Gary406]

hope you had axle stands under that car nollington .
especially with the guy in purple shirt under front end

[Gary406]

PS - if you lost all the ger box oil through the drive shaft popping out be carefull when you put it back in you dont damage it or you will have a leacking gearbox

[Gary406]

PS - if you lost all the ger box oil through the drive shaft popping out be carefull when you put it back in you dont damage the shaft seals or you will have a leacking gearbox

[NollingtonHards]

hope you had axle stands under that car nollington .
especially with the guy in purple shirt under front end

Axle stands (one bearing weight and another behind it just in case it gives way), a hydraulic jack and two tyres underneath ha so quite a bit

PS - if you lost all the ger box oil through the drive shaft popping out be carefull when you put it back in you dont damage it or you will have a leacking gearbox

Going to test it all tommorow. The guy in the purple shirt is doing a motorsport enginering degree and has been fiddling with cars for years and hes done the same stuff to his old polo e.g. driveshafts out etc so i've got quite a knowledge fountain to help me

I got a good relationship with them. I give them pizza they lower my car ha

[Gary406]

[NollingtonHards]

Its been about two weeks since i last posted on here. Ive either been skating or out a lot due to woman troubles

Anyway i got my new top mount and on it went


Goodbye old one


I can now put the sticker on ha

The finished article

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My mate popped a drop link by accident so on went a new one

Then gave it a clean

And finally i spotted this on my travels


Bad news though i got 2 new front tyres and the guy at the tyre shop couldn't move the tracking rods to adjust the tracking as they had rusted solid.
Got quoted £250 to replace them so not to sure what to do. Might give it ago myself though, any advice would be much appreciated