As if I didn’t already spend enough time in front of a computer screen, both at work and at home, this lockdown has made things worse. Typically, around half of my working day is researching and writing reports and papers, but at least the other half was talking to people […]
Daily archives: Saturday 1 August 2020
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My mechanical adventures from boyhood, when I was barely able to lift a spanner, to now when I can just about wield one. Let me start at the beginning of my mechanical adventures. Like most small boys I have always been interested in making and repairing things. I liked taking […]
It’s possible to fit daytime running lights to a XK8 or similar for just a few pence (well, a couple of quid). There is a wonderful series on YouTube called “To the garage” and in one of these there was a link to a light upgrade for XK8 cars. One […]
After changing the rear discs on my XK8 I thought I may as well do the front discs. It couldn’t be any harder, right? Wrong. Again, the first challenge, after getting the discs and painting the rim areas where the pads don’t touch to keep them from going rusty, was […]
Having bought an older XK8 convertible from 1998, there were a few jobs to do to it. The brakes have never been as good as they should be, so I decided to change the rear brakes as they looked to be in the worse condition. I sourced the parts from British […]