I've already renewed the CV gaitors and regreased the pot and CV joints, a new bottom arm and bushes were fitted after a nut went AWOL and the bottom arm popped off.
Having already fitted a new handbrake cable I'm thinking that the cause for failure must be the shoes being worn. To be honest I never replaced them when I restored the car first time around so they need replacing.
Then there is the headlamp bowl. For about a year I have had to either keep replacing the chrome headlamp ring or run the lamp without one as the hole for the retaining screw is FUBAR'd, so I've bought a new one. The connection for the side bulb is dodgy too and sometimes flickers like a blown bulb, so I'll have to try and fix that somehow.
What else? Err, I think the rear wheel bearings need replacing and I need to change one of the front wheels for one of my wider 12x5s, as it just has a 12x4.5 on driver's side, but my spares kept deflating so I'm going to invest in a can of Tyre Weld to fix that.
My front discs are all grooved, a bit pitted and a bit rusty, so I might as well replace them with the pads. I could do with a calliper wind back tool, as the pistons seem to only go back so far and with new pads it's going to be a tight fit.
As usual I had a moan at the cost of bits, especially as they're service parts not nice trick bits, but I suppose £60-odd quid wasn't bad for discs, pads, shoes and headlamp bowl. It just seems a lot when you don't have much of it!!
Well, assuming the rain and thunder disappears sometime this Bank Holiday weekend I might actually get it all done and ready for an MoT next week to see what else needs to be fixed!
