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ooer missus!
no...really. I've found a nice warm barn for the ZS and I'm warming to the idera of pottering along on weekends and gently reducing the car to its component parts!
Now I've never done this sort of thing before so I'd welcome some quick tips from the people who have done this many times.
So, what common mistakes should I TRY not to make?
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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Stripping Down!arthurbrown
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LABEL EVERYTHING! Buy loads of plastic tubs for the bits to go in, sticky labels or tags for big bits, freezer bags which you can write on for nuts, bolts and fiddly things. Saves SO much hassle later on. Take pictures as you take things to bits to jog the memory of how to put them back together again. Oh and get either some dexion shelves or some cheap wooden shelves to put all the bits on. Nowt worse than the box of stuff you want being buried under 18 others.
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I won't be there when you cross the road, so always use the Green Cross Code.
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oh and to help matters the barn i've found belongs to a local mechanic and drag racer so it hads loads of tools, storage AND a four post lift!
sweet!
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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Try not to get evicted from the barn with 1 month's notice just when you have finished stripping everything down! Thats the 'mistake' I always worry about making.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT!
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104zs in da house: Now I've never done this sort of thing before so I'd welcome some quick tips from the people who have done this many times
My personal advice to those who are planing to strip down a car or bike is bring along a digital camera, paper and pens of different colours and take pix of everyting that you don't feel is 100% clear to you how to put it back, make drawings of all electrical with colored Crayons so you know what went where, basic stuff....
In my workshop I have a big white board where I can draw stuff during a project, I can also put up images with magnets on it and I was for free in a dumpster outside an office building that was beeing moved. I also use those big white presentation papers on a stand (don't know the English name for it) to draw everything from ideas to wiring diagrams and fittings to be saved for refitting.....
DP says: Documenting of your every move saves huge amount of time when the rebuild starts....
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Last Edit: Aug 3, 2006 9:23:19 GMT by dp
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Ziploc bags are a godsend when stripping a motah, especially for sets of nuts, bolts or screws so you know where they came from. Personally, when repairing a car, I tend to only strip what I need to as I go with the final "to the shell!" dismatling occuring once all the welding is done. The only reason i do this is that the car spends less time in bits and the parts take up a lot less room when they are still on the car. Sometimes you need certain parts or trim to make sure the fit is correct when repairing parts of the body and having to go dog them oput after carefully storing them away is a pain...easier if they are still there. The only thing I will remove right from the off is glass and interior that's vulnerable to grinder sparks.
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1962 Datsun Bluebird Estate - 1971 Datsun 510 SSS - 1976 Datsun 710 SSS - 1981 Dodge van - 1985 Nissan Cherry Europe GTi - 1988 Nissan Prairie - 1990 Hyundai Pony Pickup - 1992 Mazda MX5
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definitely photograph EVERYTHING! my personal preferance is to use large mcdonald style cups to put everything in. Easy to label, and much less likely to have bolts break through. You can fold the lip over at the top and it seals it perfectly.
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Flush Hard,it's a long way to McDonalds.
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Back ,when I first started messing with cars I used glass coffee jars .These have screw on lids,Screws ,clips etc were put in these. I now use Zip lock bags which you can buy from supermarkets. BAG and LABEL every single thing. Even if the part is shagged you can use it as a sample to replace something you need to replace. I also do something a bit diffrent in that as I remove panels I fix them ,and if unfixable i get useable ones straight away.It takes a lot longer to pull a car down doing this,BUT if you are evicted or run out of money/enthusiasm you have a lot of good parts to put back on the car or sell as needs dictate. Same goes for the engine,trans diff. I stack my overhualed parts in the groups I pull them off,e.g . engine one section,trans and drive shaft in another section.etc etc . Also ,by pulling and overhualing each section like this you won't get lost parts such as when happens if the entire car is reduced to a pile of parts in a weekend. By the tme the car is stripped and the body work done ,it's a simple matter to start reassembly because everything is ready to go back on,maybe only needing paint detailing. This's what a car would look like when it's done this way.
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Many years ago I changed my driving style to cope with rising fuel prices; I have now reached the stage where I am contemplating keeping my eyes shut in order to lower wind resistance.
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