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 Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:47 pm |
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Hi chaps,
i've left my owners manual in Carlisle, just raising the car to paint the callipers.
Whats the best point to raise the front of the car?
Cheers in advance 
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:48 pm |
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Location: Carlisle
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sill or the subframe
Edit: my bad jacking point in the sill not just any old part lol
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Last edited by M60SHW on Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:53 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:52 pm |
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Location: In the garage
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Not the sill. It's only a narrow strip and do it enough and you'll crush it and definately split the underseal. Under the floor is a box section. Use this and a trolley jack with a thick block of timber between the jack head and box section.
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:53 pm |
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Location: Raunds, Northamptonshire
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i used the bit were the wishbone it connected 
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:00 pm |
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Location: Essex
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Regarding painting your calipers, What paint are you going to use? Been painting my rears in Hammerite smooth but it has taken so long to get a good finish, Was going to do the fronts whilse on the car but I will be there for days trying to get a strong finish.
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:05 pm |
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Location: Ash, Surrey
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| 206-GTi wrote: |
| Regarding painting your calipers, What paint are you going to use? Been painting my rears in Hammerite smooth but it has taken so long to get a good finish, Was going to do the fronts whilse on the car but I will be there for days trying to get a strong finish. |
ooo...  Well I did have Hammerite smooth. I'm back at my parents place at the moment and my dad wasn't too happy when he asked what I was doing and I told him I was going to be using his multi-grand bricked drive to do abit of spray painting... So the cars down now.. but at least I got most the muck off the Callipers
I did have Halfords brush on paint but exchanged it for a can as decided I wanted to go blue instead of red and they had no brush on blue paint. Did you use spray paint or brush on hammerite??
ooo and Edward, I ended up jacking the car up at the... erm... think it was the subframe? (damn my mechanical naivity  ) Then put axle stands on either side of the frame and lowered the car so it was supported by three points. That sound about right??
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:15 pm |
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I got the brush on in red, has taken 4 coats to get a reasonable finish. Its reallly runny as well which doesn't help.
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:18 pm |
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| 206-GTi wrote: |
| I got the brush on in red, has taken 4 coats to get a reasonable finish. Its reallly runny as well which doesn't help. |
ooo... how long have you had the car up for to get that done? Guess you let it dry for 24 hours between coats so at least 4 days?
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:13 pm |
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Well, I have another set of calipers to hand so have been doing them in the shed, started yesterday evening with two light coats, about an hour between. This evening I did another two light coats and their just starting to look finished. Think another coat will be fine.
Dont even want to think about doing the fronts, as I will not have another set lying around prior, so will be on the car when I commence paint action.
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:16 pm |
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Location: Ash, Surrey
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| 206-GTi wrote: |
Dont even want to think about doing the fronts, as I will not have another set lying around prior, so will be on the car when I commence paint action. |
bahaha! 'commence paint action' 
hmm... well I'm doing mine blue. Hopefully over the space of around half a day I can get about 3 decent coats on. I thought 3 coats would be ample? Spose i'll just have to wait till I got a decent day..
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