No idea if anyone is actually reading this haha, but I'm attacking one thing at a time...
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1: The "slight front end roll" I described above I've upgraded to "actually quite bad all around floppyness"... I'll order the Belltech shocks that match when I think i'll have time to do something with them.
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Shocks arrived yesterday, going around to a buddys place Sunday to put them in using his tools and making a mess of his driveway. There isn't too much disassembly required to do the shocks, so not a lot of other "while I'm here I might as well..." maintenance items that I can think of, but if there is something I should definitely check while I'm there let me know. I will grab his grease gun and check the joints etc. though
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2: Brakes:
The front brakes pull up well enough, but pretty sure they're warped.. Would like to replace the pads/rotors
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Agonised over whether I should bother doing the brakes this weekend as well and decided against it, but will inspect while I'm there and work out how urgently they need attention. I want to inspect the rear brakes too, but drum brakes are black magic to me, so not really sure what I'm looking for!
I'm still open to suggestions for Pads/Rotors to install though.
Pads: EBC Yellows seem to be fairly popular with the standard calipers, so happy to go with that.
Rotors: Read a lot of stuff suggesting that the more modern replacement rotors warp/wear out quickly and to just have the stock ones refinished unless they're all the way down to the groove depth... I have personally never liked the idea of refinishing rotors, and would much rather go with a good quality replacement rotor, so if anyone has a brand/part number to aim for please let me know!
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5: Throttle cable is too long
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Going to see how much of this slack I can take up on the stock adjustment this sunday too, but I don't think it'll be enough.. otherwise I'll look into some of the jerry rig techniques I've seen on youtube etc.