About a year ago, my car started making weird noises. After a while I found out this was due to one of the points, where the heat shield of my exhaust was fixed, having corroded loose. At the time, that was temporarily sorted basically by just tucking the corroded edge underneath the big washer, but it was starting to make noises again. I figured I needed to do something a bit more thorough! And I imagined one option would just be to put some sort of mega-washer in place. One that was a lot bigger than the bit that corroded away.
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| The problem |
I had wondered what I should make this washer of. Maybe a can of cat food? But then I remembered that we have a workshop (run by the bloke who made my new blinds). I'm sure the workshop sometimes has aluminium cut-offs. Maybe I could use one of these?
One day I did go to the workshop and asked, and got home with a big plate. A bit more than I needed! But I have a saw. And that Saturday I set to work. I sawed off a piece of the big aluminium plate that I thought would do the job. Initially I thought I might put it over the old washer, but there wasn't enough length in the bolt. The old washer had to come off! Unfortunately, with that washer also came off the entire thread of the bolt. Oops! No one was ever going to attach anything to that again.
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| Starting to tackle the plate |
Back to the drawing board. What now? And I just settled on fixing the heat shield as good or bad as it went with a piece of iron wire to a fixing. This wasn't really the level of sophistication I had had in mind! But it will have to do for now. With that bolt not being a bolt anymore, I would imagine that having this fixed properly would be quite expensive…
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| Eh, fixed, ish |
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