OK, it’s late in the season, but with the Suzuki of the road for a couple of weeks, and with the weather holding I decded to use the Spitfire to get to work at least once.
I’ve been worried about that quantity of oil in the differential, so I topped that up. It took around 1/4 of a litre, less than I expected and not enough to stop the back end rumbling and complaining.
I’ve also had a set of EBC green stuff pads sitting on the shelf for ages waiting to replace the cheap pads I put on the car when I put it back together. We’d overheated these going down a steep hill in Luxembourg, fully laden and they’d never been much cop since.
Every thing is still new, not seized and clean enough that it’s a pleasure to work on the car and the pads were on in no time.
I took it pretty easy on them on the way to work, despite the “brake-in” coating I though I’d best bed them in a bit. They seem promising, unlike the back end, which is seriously noisy and suffers quite a lot of vibration at certain speeds. I guess a diff rebuild/replacement and some balancing is on the cards during the winter.
