{"id":1713,"date":"2012-03-11T20:13:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T19:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2012-03-11T20:17:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T19:17:23","slug":"good-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"Good news!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last time out, the damage list was driveshaft (already replaced with a standard one), power steering pump (and possibly the rack) and the missing fuel cap of woe.<\/p>\n

This week I’ve been at work and had a fair bit on this weekend as well, but I’ve managed to make some progress. \u00a0The first bit of which was nice and easy to fit. \u00a0Before:<\/p>\n

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Lovely on-event bodge.<\/p><\/div>\n

My lovely bodge with gaffa tape. \u00a0However, thanks to a very helpful Matt from Think Automotive<\/a> I now have a nice new cap:<\/p>\n

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Shiny, and no ATL badging!<\/p><\/div>\n

The big upside of this is that it cost far less than I thought – \u00a365 in total. \u00a0Not cheap for a fuel cap, but a lot less than I originally thought! \u00a0Next up, the power steering. \u00a0I ordered a new pump, which needed a bit of modification as the inlet was at a different angle. \u00a0It took a bit of doing to get the inlet out of the new pump, but the old one was easy enough. \u00a0With a bit of work, it looked like this:<\/p>\n

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Won't look like this for long...<\/p><\/div>\n

I filled it up with the right fluid, and thankfully it seems that the rack hasn’t been damaged – it seems fine from lock to lock, and now the car is back as it was. \u00a0However, I want to avoid another broken shaft so I’m now looking into getting some stronger shafts made, so hopefully by next weekend I should have some definite news on this. \u00a0Work will be starting on the Skoda soon though, as it is next up, in September, with any luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last time out, the damage list was driveshaft (already replaced with a standard one), power steering pump (and possibly the rack) and the missing fuel cap of woe. This week I’ve been at work and had a fair bit on this weekend as well, but I’ve managed to make some progress. \u00a0The first bit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}