Well it has been a slow start to the year car wise as, naturally, everything has been closed over the "silly" season for the holidays and as such it was just yesterday that someone was very kindly able to come and have a look at the current front brake problem (see Dec 2013). He has determined that he new slave cylinders are actually wrong for the car or have been cast incorrectly and as such are holding the pads/shoes in the wrong place, thus causing the drums not to fit back onto the car. This is somewhat frustrating as I thought had bought the correct Lockheed parts for the car and it looks like they are actually somewhat rubbish pattern parts instead. Now it is to decide to get new actual Lockheed parts or to have the old cylinders rebuilt and refit those, quite possibly the latter. The trouble is that I am a 27 hour drive away from the car at the moment and my poor Dad is stuck with trying to sort it for me instead, which is exceptionally good of him to do for me. Oh well nothing to do but sort it and get it together again, after all it's now 2014 and it has to be registered and back on the road for a June departure!
Guess the main point here is to make sure to read the fine print about the parts you're buying to make sure you're getting what you think your paying for!!
Oh and looks like I am going to get the count transported down to Melbourne. I would much prefer to drive it and I have blind faith in it that it would make it, but accepting others point of view of the car actually hasn't been driven for over 11 years now, so it would probably be more sensible to be able to have shorter runs out and back from home to give it a "shake down" period before the long trip as opposed to jumping in and driving 27 hours straight up. Probably makes more sense, though I don't think so ;)
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