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Apr 26, 2024 16:53:07 GMT
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I've had enough frustrations with my projects and shoddy work(mostly electrical but had a couple of fuel system related horrors of late... fuel pipe running through a hole chiselled in the floor😬)...its time & money putting stuff right rather than enjoying the cares.
Bad enough where you don't know the history of a car but for a high profile rebuild project like this it is shocking.
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 25, 2024 15:48:32 GMT
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Front dampers came off the Chevy today... and might be expected it did come down to brute force, I initially asked nicely, then stepped up to turning up the "heat" but when that didn't work then straight to the cutting disc! All the old wiring is out, it's a dreadful mess so glad to see it on the workshop floor. However in keeping with tradition even the courtesy/dome light hasn't escaped the modifications...albeit not the worst work to reveal itself Can't lie, making good some of this work is really sucking the joy out this project, add in the electrical maladies with the Chrysler(thankfully Rock Auto came through with the switch inside 4 days from the US) and it's a reminder why so many projects do stall.
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 22, 2024 19:04:30 GMT
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Got 2½ weeks to sort the Desoto for Race the Waves, and being honest I'm not hopeful. Combination of unplanned breakages & more body repairs needed to the floors(lots hidden under fibreglass tissue & another "good" section held in by double side foam tape) I suspect it will beat me😟 within that deadline. Indicators on the big Chrysler died last week as well, so 6 hours on Sunday chasing really dodgy wiring for it to be the switch🙄Rock Auto, £85 all in and more waiting(although an on/off/on toggle switch is doing duties until the new part lands on Thursday or Friday. Throw in exhuming dead rodents from the Chevrolet at the back end of last week. and fair to say it's been a frustrating few days.
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 20, 2024 21:01:04 GMT
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i have just one question How can you spend that amount of money ? I sense a degree of artistic licence from the seller, I don't doubt there's receipts for £260k+ but that they're for the whole life of the car and not just the restoration/overhaul/upgrade works which is still a staggeringly large amount but more feasible...dealer services, tyres, couple of 'proper' resprays etc and it'll soon accumulate.
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 20, 2024 17:15:38 GMT
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So, how tight do you run your wheelarch to tyre clearances....
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 20, 2024 17:13:57 GMT
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 19, 2024 17:12:03 GMT
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Am seeing a few conversions running the Merc M113 V8 and there's conversion plates to mount these to the ZF HP autoboxes but not seen anything into the Discovery/RR(most conversions involve the M57 diesel)
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 19, 2024 14:37:00 GMT
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Whilst everything is apart I've started to tackle a job that I've been reluctantly eyeing up for a while... as I find common place lots of classics have decommissioned heaters with either the plumbing or electrics(or both) isolated. With most of dash components out the way the access will never be better and whilst waiting on more connectors and bits due being unable/unwilling to retain the old bits I decided I'd take the fan motor out.. its only 5 screws... Famous last words, with three of those screws needing drilling out🙄... however it did reveal a rather large amount of animal nesting material... .... or at least I thought it was bedding. The car has been in the UK a while, so pretty sure this is all USA rodent evidence but still very surprised when vacuuming this mess out it started with a significant lump... that had vertebrae on display🤢 Guess I can officially use the term "rat" to describe this car now not just "Patina". Remarkably the blower motor still works really well although think the bearings might have seen better days after I bench tested it with a variable power supply(cheap Ebay purchase but really useful for testing electrical items off car). Suspect its probably a 6v unit given how fast it goes at that voltage so looking for a 12v unit that might drop in
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 19, 2024 12:13:59 GMT
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Great pictures and yep...the KRIT Motor Car Company logo hasn't stood the test of time very well.
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Had forgotten the magazine had been mothballed and therefore didn't think anything when YT started suggesting I might like the PPC channel... bit like the magazine, needs work, especially their microphone/sound quality!
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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I recall certain "nefarious" individuals but these warnings(frequently worded as per official warnings for abandoned/untaxed vehicles" on vehicles to detract attention when they subsequently go and take it but that was in the mid to late 90s so not sure how prevalent the practice remains.
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 15, 2024 17:30:20 GMT
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As could be surmised by the picture heavy Goodwood thread that was my weekend. Sadly plans to take one of the yanks scuppered by wiring gremlins and lack of confidence in various bodges coming to light. But it has served to fire me up to finish the Chevy rewire and brake upgrade before moving onto the Desoto floorpands(the big Chrysler can wait!)
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 15, 2024 16:56:02 GMT
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Cornering hard or just trying too hard and getting the corner wrong? Not my best picture
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 15, 2024 11:57:24 GMT
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 14, 2024 20:19:24 GMT
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Not exactly the worst bodges ever seen, but more amusing to find this blocking off a vacuum pipe... Am very curious that during the course of swapping a carb & inlet the most appropriate thing to hand is a golf tee? In general wiring seems to be flushing out evermore sketchy work although I have found a second set of redundant fuel lines on the big Chrysler😬
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Well that might explain the fuel spills and general scent of petrol in daily use😬 The more "work" is revealed on the Chevy just saddens me... why spend the money on a custom tank and the demonstrate such incompetence installing a gasket and 5 x M5 screws to the degree it leaves a 1/4" gap at the sender, then add in the sender not being suitable for the ethanol content(see "melted" plastic internally)... its more delays whilst I wait on a new sender🙄
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Mar 31, 2024 13:18:40 GMT
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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