Esprit Comes Home To Norfolk!

[chats371l]

Just before the bridge? Could have been (usually stop there for a quick nose) but haven't been up in the Esprit since June/July last year.

I have only had my car since January this year so must have been someone else.

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[OwenGT3]

[Also posted this info in Stevens Technical, pod vibrations.]

Hi,

I've been busy today fixing this annoying problem of the headlight pods vibrating. The fix really needs two new arms, but as I haven't got any at the moment I did the best I could. Luckily I'm a hoarder, so I have hundreds of spare parts and selected fixing items to remedy problems such as this. The first thing I did was to remove the whole arm from the lights and motor. Also I had to remove one of the lights, because Lotus in their wisdom decided to fit a captive plate with nuts on, but didn't actually attach it to the light pod, so when I came to refit I had to locate the captive nut plate. This wasn't too major, just remove a light.

With the arm off I was able to work on the bench to repair the arm. I had a good look and the ball centres were worn, so to temporally sort this until I get new ones I removed the ball heads then placed them in the vice one at a time, end to end and gently nipped them. By doing this it nipped the balls in the cups so they now didn

Edited June 9, 2007 by OwenGT3