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I posted ages ago about the quality of rubber these days being shite

Its not just tyres or fuel lines, its everything

I fitted a new set of uprated rubber tie bar bushes when I assembled the front suspension, they just sat there car on axle stands, outside on the drive, never went anywhere, or exposed to dirt, salt or anything else from the road, and, yes, thats right, withing 3 weeks, they had started to crack. Same thing has happened to the rubber boots for the hardy spicer joints, yet the Interparts CV boots are still good

Perhaps there is no ozone left and the government are trying to take our minds away from that by going on about CO2 emissions instead, or perhaps its the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere thats causing it. Which brings me to a point. If the CO2 levels in the atmosphere have increased, does that mean that the O2 levels have dropped? after all, we humans need 20.9% O2 to be able to breath and petrol engine stoich ratio has changed?

Edited by Sprocket on 30th May, 2009.

On 29th May, 2009 Sprocket said:
Never mind trying to dry out your tyres, what you need is some of this http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_page=...&products_id=45

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

Robert I laughed so hard my sides hurt............NOT

On 30th May, 2009 Sprocket said:
Robert I laughed so hard my sides hurt............NOT

Edited by robert on 31st May, 2009.

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

oooh harsh!

Now thats just not true. I he is inflating his wheels to pressure as stated above when he re-checks them after a few hard laps the pressures will be way high. The best way I find is to under inflate do a few laps and re-check as fast as is humanly possible. It takes a a fair while for the pressure to drop after a session.

Edited by Mr Joshua on 1st Jun, 2009.

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