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.....when garage modding?

Do I add £ signs, don't I? I have tried both!  Can I put a zero 0 in the fields, I've tried multiples of 10 and it still always says fecking oops lol?

What's going on, why can't the fields be less structured? An example would be the install field, I've done it myself but borrowed parts off UK Lotus Centre (and don't go all Seloc on me, he's a good man) but how do you write that in a cost of install box?

Anyway no biggy but I keep getting it, what am I doing wrong? Is it cause I'm NA.... :-)

My gear selection has slowly got worse and i seem to struggle with all left biased gears on the shifter, 1st, 2nd and reverse. Fishing for 2nd gear on track is not the best especially when everything gets red hot. I decided to lubricate the cables and make some adjustments to try and improve the selection.

Seats out, amazing what you find under there. The floor is filthy and unfortunately no money :-(



I cleaned up the tub with a magic sponge and baby wipes and it came up like new.



Then I took off the rear drinks holder, take out one screw that holds on the cover, then a further 2 screws to take off the holder. Unscrew 2 screws holding on the handbrake sleeve and slide it off, undo the 2 torx screws holding on the centre console and lift upward. Disconnect the hazard switch, central locking switch and traction control button (the lotus position may need to be used to get a good view under the console. Cut the tie wrap that holds on the leather gear stick shroud and lift off the console. The easiest way I found was to pull on the handbrake hard and put into 5th gear.



If you select gears you will understand how the mechanism works and how it can be adjusted in each plane. I loosened off the ball joint nuts and popped them off there pins, made adjustments and reselected gears. This is trial and error until you find the sweet spot. I found the gear stick was hitting the stop on the left hand side in the wrong position and I had to force 1st, 2nd and reverse gears. After biasing selection to the right, engaging those gears was dramatically improved!!! I spent time lubricating / spraying a PTFE oil down the cables and working it in by selecting gears. Assembled the centre tunnel in reverse order as above.

And the outcome?, it's a different gearbox altogether, slick and rifle bolt feel to it!!! It's sooo smooth selecting gears now and I can't wait to test it out on track.

From the oil thread

Martin

PTP will sell you decent OEM spec spun liners,and they are not expensive

you will need to deck the block and the liner shoulders.

that's the cheap OEM way to do it, improving on that which is all about longevity and sorting the "HGF" issue costs money, you are welcome to pm me on that subject, - I am keeping an explanation for the book -

Since we have the site upgrade and server move out of the way, the limited company has also been created so its now on to the next steps.

MLOC the company!

Would you be interested in becoming a director and guiding and running the club and moving us forward? It would be in the same line as SELOC in that the decisions of what the club does is down to us.

I'm currently the only director and I don't have an idea on how many directors we require but at very least 3 in total would be good but this can be changed depending on how many people are interested. The first round of directors will be helping to set the initial way forward for the club, things such as do we have an optional membership fee? join the MSA? and many other things to think about. I don't see a massive amount of work involved for anyone but obviously it does involve giving some time up for free as we run the club for the love of all things Lotus and dont take any money from it.

At a high level it would not involve you having to do any technical work on the website as I'm happy to continue doing that but any help is appreciated if your interested.

Points to note, if the club is wound up with debts then you would be liable for a maximum of £1 and not the debts of the club, unless of course it was caused by negligent things such fraud etc but I hopefully don't foresee that happening and we are not currently in debt.

Feel free to discuss. I'll answer what I can but its a new learning experience for me as well so I expect we will all learn it at the same time