More driving fun

I used a visit to a friend and the fine weather as an excuse for another drive with 't Kreng today. It was again very good fun. And this time I also paid some more attention to how everything worked. And a few things that sprang to mind;

• First a resonance that I have been chasing over the past few years clearly turned out not to be coming from the dashboard. While driving past a temporary concrete road barrier with the windows down the sound clearly was coming from under the car, as it was reflecting from the barrier!
• The brakes, though still superb, were feeling less direct. But only very slightly so. This is probably caused by a little moisture or a tiny bit of air in the over 2 years old fluid. Time to call in some assistance in the near future for a traditional bleed session;
• And there is still some slight knocking from what sounds like tiny movement of the half shafts in the back axle when turning in at low speeds. The outer bearing collars not being tight against the bearings maybe?

All in all no life threatening things wrong. But some more investigation is needed in the near future. And as she needs her biennial's MOT this summer there is at least a dead line to get things sorted!

And next time I take her out I'll have to bite the bullet and fill her up with some high octane German fuel. Not something I look forward to with the current fuel prices 😟

Happy Birthday Bitch

It's again been a while since my last post on here. And as usually it was a typical case of life and work intervening. And one of life's interventions was my computer which, after many upgrades over the years, finally gave up the ghost. But since a week or so the new one arrived. And I am currently installing all the necessary software. Rather boring and time consuming.

But I didn't forget an important TR7 milestone last weekend. On the 16th of April 't Kreng officially turned 40. And to celebrate this milestone I decided it was time for some quality time. So I collected her from the shed last weekend. And after a very quick general check I took her for a nice 200+ kilometres drive. I even managed to avoid some of the many Easter-tourists clogging the roads. It was good to be driving her again. And of course there were a few photo shoots.