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Jan 29, 2017 22:00:22 GMT
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Cheers guys. Yeah it feels great to actually make some progress. And yeah the new wheels suit it a lot better! Hindsight, sucks. The brakes are all bled up with the front disc conversion and new hardlines, but there's still some air in there somewhere as it does NOT stop at the moment. But it runs! Had to fiddle with the choke on the carb as it had popped off, couldn't start it for ages then I found it had all come apart. Starts real nice now actually. Took it for a little spin, just up and down the lane to see how it is. Lovely to drive, bloody tiny! It'll need a new clutch cable, as it's pretty notchy, but it selects all the gears fine and drives good. Anyway, below are some pics. Helper wife. This was my view of bleeding the front right brake ha ha! Getting there! Note super scene dog guard in the left window I got from a charity shop! And a moody shot with a penis, courtesy of a friend of mine. I've got headlights and tail lights too now, and I've converted the fronts to take H4 bulbs. The front has settled a lot more now, and it's too low, so I fitted some replacement mounting blocks to get it back to a driveable height for me and the missus. I've spaced out the steering wheel by 50mm too as I'm 6ft2" and clout my knees on the steering wheel without the spacer! Aside from the brakes, perilously close to MOT now. I found the parcel shelf trim bits too so a full interior once again. Some pics below of when I took it out of the garage for the first time in god knows how long! Check out how some of the panels actually seem vaguely shiny after a wash. . . Cute ain't it? Excuse the ductape on the RH headlight, I'm waiting on some plastic clips to hold it in, as the old ones have crumbled Sits really well now. That's a coil off the back too, just to sit it a bit better. Spaced out steering wheel, I can know sit in it without knee clouting I've got a map of our trip to spain which I'll post up later. Should be great!
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Last Edit: Jan 29, 2017 22:07:08 GMT by jonovlov
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Jan 29, 2017 22:09:14 GMT
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That's a map of our planned trip to Spain. Over 1000 miles! Should be awesome! We'll be camping and improvising around that route, so it's all subject to change but we're really looking forward to it.
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dikkehemaworst
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Jan 29, 2017 22:47:29 GMT
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Little late , but if you want to go a little lower in front , use Some shock absorbers from the back. There shorter cause the engine is more heavy. Give Some more lows to the front. Love your Bis. And epic roadtrip planned! All the luck.
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Jan 31, 2017 22:31:08 GMT
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Little late , but if you want to go a little lower in front , use Some shock absorbers from the back. There shorter cause the engine is more heavy. Give Some more lows to the front. Love your Bis. And epic roadtrip planned! All the luck. I don't think I want to go lower, it sits nice the way it is. Also the wife is going to drive it too, so it needs to be usable for her as well. Good to know though! And yeah, heh heh naturally I'll be getting a picture of myself standing next to that Peniscola sign . . . Plan is this weekend to bleed the brakes again, and try and find some paint for it so it looks mildly presentable. I need to check the wiring/bulbs in the brake lights as one lights up before the other! That may be related to the bleeding of them though? I'll find out soon enough. The wheels will be gunmetal grey for now. I'll get them properly powdercoated once I can afford it, but the rattle can will do for now.
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Feb 10, 2017 16:56:32 GMT
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Well, I went to go to the MOT today. I got a few miles away, and then coolant went absolutely everywhere. Still, it did drive quite well! The journey was very short in the end. On the hard shoulder of the M48. Waiting for the 4th emergency service . . . It's sooooo tiny. Got to kill time somehow. Take pictures! A friend of mine I hadn't seen in around 4 years spotted me the other way, turned round and came back to see if I was ok. He approved of the BIS despite the breakdown. Sad car is sad So, upon diagnosis, it seems the head gasket has gone. Upon reflection, it may well have been "gone" for some time, given as every time I've tried to start him up, it takes a good while, I just thought it was an "hasn't started in a while" thing. The coolant bellows out of the filler cap when running, and it smelt very fumy so yeah. Oh well, not too bad a job to do. I searched on club126uk about head gaskets and oddly a post I put on another thread said that I'd replace the HG so serves me right for not doing so! Also, it seemed to really bog down in fourth, which could be explained by the lack of compression. I'm on Axel Gerstl now ordering new seals and gaskets for everything. Seeing as the engine now has to come out I may as well sort everything out. I'll also get some de-scaler and run it through the rad to eliminate all potential problems. On a positive, I bought some NOS shelf speakers for it, and I'll put in a cassette head unit with a hidden aux for period correct look, with added modern flare. They are VERY nice. Anyway once I've got everything together, plus some time free I'll fix him up. Still no paint, but hey now I have time to do it!
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Feb 20, 2017 18:48:23 GMT
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Got the engine out at the weekend. Not good news, I'm amazed it ran as happy as it did to be honest! Proper gunky inside. All of the water ways were blocked, and the outlet from the head though the carb mount and to the rad was blocked from start to end. No wonder it overheated. Oh well. I've ordered a new head with the bigger inlet valves, as judging by the original head, it's toast. I'm not even going to bother skimming it, lord knows what the water ways I can't see are like. Below the outlet from the head is the "hole" where the red bit of gasket it. Blocked all the way through, it's 100mm long. Most of the water jacket in the block was full of this stuff. Crystalised coolant and rust. . . Once the new head turns up I'll lob it back together, in the meantime I can strip the rest of the engine and replace the gaskets on everything.
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Last Edit: Feb 20, 2017 18:49:23 GMT by jonovlov
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sridgett
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Feb 20, 2017 19:03:41 GMT
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Love a 126. I one passed on a chance of buying one for 500 euros, it was in my village too. What a moron I was. Looking forward to more progress.
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Last Edit: Feb 20, 2017 19:04:25 GMT by sridgett
Mk3 capri, escort xr3i, mk2 fiesta,mk5 escort rs2000
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dikkehemaworst
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Feb 20, 2017 23:11:31 GMT
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While your at it , clean all the oil galeries. In the blockcasting there are Some allen head type screws , undo them ( it's a pain , i know ) and blow them through with air and flush them.
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Feb 21, 2017 19:06:30 GMT
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Do not use one of the cheap head gasket kits they are next to useless Caused me no end of problems until I resorted to buying good quality gasket paper and a copper head gasket
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Davey
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That is mega gunged up!
Lovely little car though, quite fancy myself another little fiat!
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Feb 22, 2017 12:41:14 GMT
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Cheers guys, thanks for the support! While your at it , clean all the oil galeries. In the blockcasting there are Some allen head type screws , undo them ( it's a pain , i know ) and blow them through with air and flush them. Thanks for that, once I whip everything else off the engine I'll do that. Do not use one of the cheap head gasket kits they are next to useless Caused me no end of problems until I resorted to buying good quality gasket paper and a copper head gasket Don't worry, I bought a full gasket kit including a copper headgasket so hopefully that should solve the problem. Whilst I think about it, you wouldn't happen to know the torque settings for the head nuts would you?
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Feb 22, 2017 17:55:46 GMT
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Plenty of advice available on club126uk and well worth joining the forum
Here you go
Cap nut retaining cylinder head to engine block M10 x 1.25. 49Nm
Screw retaining cylinder head to engine block M8. 30Nm
Screw retaining cylinder head to engine block. M9 x 1.25 40Nm
Pm me your email address and I will try and send you the Bis engine manual in PDF
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Feb 22, 2017 17:57:07 GMT
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Pic of the one I restored last year
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Last Edit: Feb 22, 2017 17:58:29 GMT by dadandlad
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Feb 22, 2017 19:41:44 GMT
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Wow very nice! Got to be honest mine isn't ever going to be that clean ha ha! Thanks for the torque settings I'll pm you in a sec. I'm on the club126 forum as jonny126, great forum but not that frequented, unlike here. Lots of history on there though of people with Bis problems so the search function has proved real handy!
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dikkehemaworst
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Feb 25, 2017 16:16:11 GMT
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While your at it , clean all the oil galeries. In the blockcasting there are Some allen head type screws , undo them ( it's a pain , i know ) and blow them through with air and flush them. I gently heated up the surroundings with a paintgun ( not redhot!) and cooled the hexnut with lighterfluidgas from the inside of the hexnut to freeze it. worked 9 out of 10 times. I know lighterfluid sounds stupid , but thats the only thing i could come up with at the time as an instand freeze. guys over here probably have a better solution for that.....
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Feb 25, 2017 17:24:52 GMT
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:47:56 GMT
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Mar 13, 2017 22:13:30 GMT
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Ah almost forgot. Me and the missus spent a weekend in London, and I spotted this 650 air cooled popping and banging round London's central streets. Very loud! I was a bit enthusiastic, and very supportive, which apparently isn't "done" in London. Oh well who cares, it was awesome!
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Got the MOT done today, I got past where I broke down first time, so that was a good start! Rich fiddled with the idle and mixture screws just before the test, and he idles a lot better now, though he still takes a while to start when warm, and there's an intermittent high idle too? Either way, he runs well, is really drivable and is an absolute blast! I managed to get some pictures of the first fully road legal drive since 2001 too, made use of the sunlight. To say I'm ecstatic is an understatement. I'll take the missus out in it later to see what she thinks. I'll swap the front leaf for a slightly higher one too, as I didn't think it'd be THAT low at the front, and it should look a bit more balanced once the front is raised a little bit. So a few little things to sort out, and a headunit/speaker wiring, but I'm glad I can drive it daily now. Great timing considering the improving weather. But I am a happy man!
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Davey
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Sneaky speedhunters sticker in there. Amazing little car, although raising the front to correct the ride height? NO! Lower the back!
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