Bianca Ratlye

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Managed to get onto it for a few hours this evening, took it up and down the drive a few times, span the steering lock to lock 20 or so times and the notchy steering has sorted itself out, must've had air in the pump - good start.

Backed it into the garage for some rear end attention to the brakes primarily, and the bumper.

Enter the Ratlye


Jacked it up and put it on stands, checked out all my lovely spider webs


Also wanted to check out the load compensator, which to my surprise was rather fluid. Laced it with plus gas and cycled it about 20 times, working even nicer now so onto the brakes.

Started with the bleed nipples. Thankfully both there, though some genius had superglued the nipple covers on so had to cut them off. Cleaned them up with the dremel to allow the plus gas to get in and do its job:


Tapped them 4 or 5 times with a heavy ball pein hammer, and laced them with their first dosings of plus gas for tackling much later on. Moving onto the sliders, they were stuck fast, as expected after 2 years really. Had to resort to my special screwdrivers, perfect size and just the job.


As the brakes were all rusty, and had lashings of threadlock on the caliper carriers, couldn't be bothered to fight so just cheated:



Sadly, found a split boot on the drivers side but easy enough to change i guess.


So a productive couple of hours with just a few broken bolts on the bumper (the usual pair) here she is tucked up for the night. Garage ftew, can leave my s**t out and it's super comfy lying on the old bits of carpet, was plenty warm even though the HDi is frozen outside.


Quite a bit I can do all in the same area.