Lamborghini visiting its younger brothers :) at HR Owen Lamborghini Manchester

So today we visited some younger cars at HR Owen Lamborghini Manchester .

The Tech guys there are great and they loved having a good look around my Urraco :)

We are discussing doing the timing belt and tensions at the dealer!

MOT pass for my Lamborghini Urraco!!

Today is a good day and I'm sure you will all share my joy as my Urraco passed it's inspection with the tester praising my rebuild work

It was nice to go for a little drive afterwards. Now I'll take a little break from working on the Lambo and give my other cars some attention

Lamborghini Urraco brakes and handbrake adjustment

So my plan for the hand brake worked. When I looked behind the cover underneath, the handbrake adjustment was too tight - probably to try and make the brake work better, but it takes brains not tightness With the lever loosened, the calliper levers moved further back and then I adjusted the adjustment screws on the pads and now it is nice and solid on 4 or 5 clicks of the lever.

I've bled the brakes again and a few more tiny bubbles have come out of the front probably now it has all settled. I think this calliper is probably not so great to bleed. Modern 4 piston Brembos bleed just fine. The peddle feels pretty consistent now.

I still didn't find any source for a knock (which only happens on full left lock and when the car is at a certain angle) and the steering rack is firm, with the plastic bush just fine and the dampers good.

So now the car is finally prepared for it's UK MOT roadworthy test. Maybe the MOT inspectors will find something they are not happy with - we will see on Thursday...

I guess on Friday I will either be driving the car or fixing the car once more...

Shake down test run !

Yesterday I drove the car out of the garage for the first time in 3 months! for a shake down test.

A few things came up.

1) the hand brake pulls up too high, but the levers on the callipers are already adjusted too much I think. So I think I need to remove the cover from underneath, loose off the cable to let the levers out at the callipers , then adjust the pads so that the brakes lock on with only 4 or so clicks of the handbrake.

2) The hydraulics are a bit soft unless I pump the brake pedal twice. Given that I pulled all the callipers off there may be some air still in the system... so I'll re-bleed... again...

3) Still get a knock/pop on full lock when pulling off my drive way. I thought it would be the top mounts, but now they are new, the lower ball joints are nice and tight and I fitted new track rod ends (VW bus 1969-79) so it might be the steering rack somewhere which I didn't really touch.

Also might as well check the steering dampers and replace with the Merc 280 SL ones

No pictures today