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This popped up when I was in YouTube. No specific mention of Caterham tires in the video:

Thank you. Parts on order to address these issues.

I have owned the car since new so this did not happen. No problem with the brakes til now. I have 13K miles on the pads with about 8 track days and maybe a similar number of autocross. Not sure how fast this wear happened. I probably have about 1500 street miles (no track and maybe one autocross) since I last bled the brakes and would have looked at them. Don't recall it being uneven at that time (but I may have just confirmed I had adequate pad thickness and not noticed the uneven wear).

From what I have gathered it appears splitting them is not a big deal as long as you get the crossfeed gasket that is not in the rebuild ki.

Thanks for the confirmation

My front left brake has experienced very uneven brake pad wear. I would suspect this is a sticky caliper that needs a rebuild. My car is a 2009 SV with the standard brakes. Can I confirm these are Girling type 14 brakes as used on Spitfire MKIII (and perhaps some Elan and Europa?) I don't see any obvious leakage, I plan to order a rebuild kit from Moss Any recommendations on brake pads. Car is primarily street driven with some AutoX and occasional track day. Moss Motors sells a pad made by Classic Gold and is listed as ceramic for the Spitfire. What are the pads Beachem sells (they areabout twice the price) Any comment on the cupping of the thin pad as shown in the picture

Thanks, I was thinking of just going that route

One more question is they have made coolant quite confusing with all the different colors (formulations). My car has a 2005 duratec and I currently have the orange type coolant. I found a Motorcraft document that says for 2004-8 focus they use yellow coolant. They switch to orange in 2012. What is the recommendation, and does it matter as our cars do not have the OEM radiators and other components. And can you mix? I will drain the coolant and put in new coolant but I was not planning on doing a thorough flush.

Thank you, I was thinking you may need to loosen the pulley belts before removing the belt. It appears to be coming from behind the water pump pulley so I am pretty sure that is where th problem is. When I looked on line it appears some may have metal impellers. See if you have one in stock

I have developed a coolant leak that is likely from the water pump. Is the yellow circled item in the picture the belt tensioner? If so, do I l just loosen the nut to allow belt removal? Do I need to set the tension on the belt after assembly or is it pressure fed and automatic? A quick search found lots of water pumps at all sorts of prices, any recommendations or are they all pretty similar (or are the cheap ones plastic impellers and some metal?) Thanks Jay

I probably will not be able to make it this year, but still TBD.

Unfortunately I am still a no go, Your timing I impeccable. The first weekend was my moms 90th birthday weekend and she will be at our house. The new dates are when we will be in Europe celebrating her birthday! See you next year

Paul and i were supposed to autox tomorrow but that has been scuttled by the weather. Looks like tomorrow will be a good day to stay home and catch up on some indoor tasks that have been patiently waiting to get done. cheers jay

So much for a nice supple hand on the wheel . Thanks for getting these posted. Jay

Thanks for the info. Very impressive resume.