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I've put 60 miles on the car all good except steering wheel shaking. Start to feel it at 55 mph ish and by the time you get to 65 mph ish it's shaking quite bad. Speed up more and shake goes away. Before I took the car off the road last year the shaking was there. I put it down to the wheels needing...

I fitted powerflex bushes on my rear axle. They can be bought on ebay etc at a good price. Easy to fit, I just had to make up a tool to fit them.

Greig

Well today after my work I've refitted the mk4 Astra SRi alloy wheels. Then went on line and have taxed the cavalier. It's now legal for the road.
Tomorrow I'll take it out and check how the brakes work.

Greig

Thinking a might tax the cavalier this weekend. It sits insured and mot ed all the time. Got to start using it more, had to recondition all the brakes because of lack of use. Been doing approx 250 miles a year for the last few years.

Greig

My axle looked bad till it was blast cleaned. The cleaning showed up a hole under each spring seat. That was fixed by welding on my new stronger spring seats. Here's a close up pic of how rusted it was.



Greig

Good work, looks nice and clean. I hate handbrake cables. Took me till 3rd try to get the hand brake working as it should today. I also got the brakes working used 2 litre of fluid bleeding them. Then I went looking for rust under the car. I found some at one of the plastic plugs on the floor. So g...

My axle was exctly the same. I got new spring seats made with 3mm thick sheet steal. The diameter was slightly bigger than the old rusted ones. So that when I welded them on I was welding to good metal. I also welded all the way around them . See my work in progress thred, i only fixed my axle this ...

I'm using hammerite paint. The axle was in a warm utility room for about 24 hours so dryed good. I've got it refitted then got the roll bar, hubs , brakes, made up new brake pipes and new hand brake cable on. http://imageshack.com/a/img924/1665/cs5S2d.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img923/4620/hDcjZD.j...

Number could be 90236353.

Greig

Not much to report from today.
I welded the new spring seats on to the axle and gave it a paint.



Hope it will dry overnight so I can refit to the car tomorrow.

Greig

When I was looking for that bushes . Only place I could find then was from Vauxhall. They are not expensive from what I remember.

Greig

I got the axel back today.



I fitted the new power flex bushes. Had to make up a tool to fit them.



Tomorrow I'll start to fit it to the car.

Greig

lowrider dave wrote:Good progress. I hate fitting handbrake shoes, horrid things.

So do I. To make it a bit easier I bought the hook tool seen in the pic. When I was back at motor factors swapping the fitting kit. £10 well spent I thought.

Greig

http://ecat24.com/opel/catalog/models/1/

That site will give you part numbers.

Greig

Not much happening on the cavalier today again. Got the old rubber brake flexys off the car. Got rid and treated the rust on the fixing points for the flexys. Painted up the rear disc sheilds. Got axle dropped of at blast cleaners. Bloke hopefully have it done tomorrow. Then lastly I fitted the new ...

Lists have a habit of getting longer, not shorter. Well mine do.

Greig

That wheels look better than new now.

Greig

Today ive got the front brakes back on the car. Then turned the car around to work on the back of it. The back axle came off easily. Then stripped all the parts of it. Getting the bushes out was the hardest bit. Used a 50mm hole saw to drill out the middle of it. Then cut a slit in the outer plastic...

My first cavalier sri was a hatch. As it was my main car at the time the hatch back is much more practical than the saloon. But the cavalier I have now is a saloon. That I think looks much better over the hatch. Since its just a toy it doesn't need to be too practical.

Greig

2.0l brake pads at a guess I would think you need. What size is the disc ,256mm ??Take old one with you when you go to pick them up. To make sure they are correct.

Greig

Today the cavalier got an oil and filter change. Then I helped out a neighbour by fixing there 2nd car ,a corsa 1.0l 3 cylinder. Needed a new water pump. Had it off , went to pick up new one and new fitted with in an hour. Very easy engine to work on. Late in the day I got a call from engineering sh...

Looking good.

Greig

That's one way to keep the miles off the car. Get some pics up, sounds interesting.

Greig

Not much happening on the cavalier today. Front discs not ready be picked up yet. Getting them tomorrow morning .Only fixed my brake sensor plug problem. Went to a local breakers yard and got the female end of the plug from 2 vectra B's. Looking around the vauxhalls in the yard that had the sensors....

Car is booked in to get the smoking Checked out. While at the garage with the car it didn't smoke to show the bloke. Just typical ,hopefully it will be smoking when the garage has it to find what's wrong.

Greig