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May 13, 2015 20:00:54 GMT
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Thanks for the comments - I will have to peel the stickers off the battery! The "Hockey Stick" has been repaired and installed together with part of the dashboard and front bumper. The job of attaching the trims to either side of the door glass is proving to be fraught as the clips keep falling out into the bottom of the doors...........gggrrrrrr!
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Fantastic build Phil....
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May 14, 2015 17:21:05 GMT
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Thanks ludsonline Did some more finishing jobs on the front door....when I tried to put the door handle on as the last thing I realised that the front doors are different to the back doors in so far as - First ----- you put the door handle in......... So it all came off, window frame, winder mechanism, door lock.....then it all went back........ after the door handle! Still, the drivers door was put together a lot faster, easy, when you learn the hard way!
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Last Edit: May 14, 2015 17:21:58 GMT by flyingphil
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May 16, 2015 11:21:46 GMT
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Still more progress. Dashboard only mocked up as the electrics/switches etc still to be completed.
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May 16, 2015 21:36:20 GMT
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Only one seat redone?
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Well spotted - that may be changed but for the time being it adds "Patina"......The last bracket has been found , refurbed and fitted to the air cleaner. The battery leads are now attached so, on the final push for completion
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May 27, 2015 19:35:33 GMT
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Rear OS door completed but the front needs a new quarterlight seal and they are not in stock.......Other small jobs done included fitting the handbrake lever, front sidelights and dashboard demister vents. I also cannot find the clutch pedal???....... so that is on order. I have had a slight distraction as a Citroen 2CV needed checking following winter storage. It wouldn't start after battery charging, but petrol in the air filter got it firing - so the fuel line was checked. Dry at the carb and the engine driven fuel pump was loose on the block. I blew in the filler to pressurise the tank and get fuel to the pump only to find leaks in the rubber pipe to the pump. New pipe sections fitted..... then the pipe to the carb started to leak. So off with that pipe and another new section fitted! How the car got driven last I do not know! But I suspect the inaction then disturbance just created the final disintegration......
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glenanderson
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May 27, 2015 22:04:16 GMT
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Modern fuels are very harsh on old rubber hoses, you need pipe rated SAE 30 R9 to withstand the high ethanol content.
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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May 28, 2015 15:50:14 GMT
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So it would seem Glen. Some more finishing jobs done - bonnet release handle mounted, head and side lights mounted (but the sidelight lenses are really tight and still not fully in place), boot badge and number plate fixed, hinges tightened and oil put in the engine! Still awaiting some parts and the front and back screens go in tomorrow.
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AAaaarrggghhhhh Well the Rear screen is in. But the front screen has proved a nightmare. The windscreen fitter thought that the rubber was incorrect so another was ordered - and it was the same as the first......Then we found an old rubber and insert which was from a later Minor - so we ordered a new one of those. Then we spent three hours trying to get any one of those three to look vaguely correct with the glass and insert...trying to fit from the outside in and the inside out...............Grrrrrr nightmare. However, I have been to the ever helpful, Morris Minor East Sussex, and spoke to the guy (Chris) there, who does fit Split screens he grimmaced and said it is a pig of a job! It is a three man operation with the screens assembled in the rubber with a dummy central pillar installed then two strings, one to unfurl the inner rubber flap as feet press the two screens from the inside and the outer flap (which is very small and doesn't look substantial enough) is strung over the aperture flange. So we will try again.
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Would you mind filming that horrendous sounding task? I have a feeling I am going to need to do mine at some point...
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Hah. That does look pretty complicated. If and when I need to replace mine I might just get a glass installer to sort it. I can't see me organising 4 people with enough patience to do that. As far as I can tell I don't have any rust in my front screen and it doesn't leak. For now.
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Jun 10, 2015 21:22:24 GMT
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And I have been plugging away on various other tasks, I tried to turn the engine over and had no joy with the battery or starter motor, so a new battery has been installed so Frankenhealey will be pleased! (the Power one was probably 2008 ) and the starter motor taken off, opened up and the brushes freed, then it span merrily so it was reinstalled and ---The Motor Turns Over!
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Last Edit: Jun 10, 2015 21:24:10 GMT by flyingphil
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Frankenhealey
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And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death
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Jun 11, 2015 14:15:55 GMT
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so a new battery has been installed so Frankenhealey will be pleased! I hope it was a proper hard rubber cased classic battery. It won't do well in Konkours with a Halfords special
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Tales of the Volcano Lair hereFrankenBug - Vulcan Power hereThe Frankenhealey here
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Jun 15, 2015 20:53:14 GMT
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Well it is a black battery with 6 filler caps! I've been doing electrics today and a bit of carpet fitting. The dash has been resprayed by the site sprayer as my rattle can job was deemed not quite up to scratch....
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Jun 16, 2015 18:30:12 GMT
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A good day today - I tried to start the engine having finished off the dash wiring - then opening it up again to swap a Brown/Blue wire for the other Brown/Blue wire! It had a very intermittant SU petrol pump so I swapped for a German made alternate (I will try to get the SU pump going reliably later). Then I got the contact breaker set to spark open at the correct time, then I rewired a new distributor cap with new ignition leads and cars - and still no spark at the plugs. So I swapped to a spare coil and......... ....... it fired up!!. So I got in and tried the clutch and gears and it has finally moved under its own power for the first time in many years.
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vulgalour
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Jun 16, 2015 20:03:22 GMT
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Really is coming on a treat. There is something really rewarding about getting a car to move under its own power.
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Jun 18, 2015 17:07:22 GMT
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Thanks Vulgalour The past three days have been a nightmare! The windscreen wiper motor worked when connected direct to my battery charger - but not through the car wiring - which checked out as live and earth through the switch which worked.....that eventually got a new earth and works. The horn worked - but not in the car, now it does... It needed a windscreen washer pump - and I tried three switches before I got one that worked. The brakes took forever to bleed. The semaphore light stopped working on one side when I put a chromed trim piece on of a slightly different pattern - I then realised that the trim piece is part of the electrical circuit .....through the pivot - on the early semaphores - not the later type! However I took it for its MoT .......And it ........ Passed Still got some trim bits to do and general detailing, a quarter light seal is still awaited from MMES.
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vulgalour
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Jun 18, 2015 18:13:16 GMT
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That's excellent news. There's some neat little details I'm only noticing for the first time on this one too like the heated rear screen. Are the rear arch openings slightly different to later cars? They look a larger radius than I'm used to seeing on a Minor.
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