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Oct 21, 2019 19:41:45 GMT
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You can buy a new tank for the mk1 Jim. A bit expensive, but they do cure a major headache. If they were available for the Mk2 I’d be buying one. I had 3 tanks, 2 were rotten. I cleaned a 3rd and it held water, painted and fitted it , then it leaked fuel after a month or so. I bought another and had to weld that, plus it was dented AF. So I bought another and that’s holed too😩. I'll bear that in mind the other reason I'd like to chop of of my tanks is because I'd like to rework the baffling and put an internal swirl pot as id like to convert it to injection. |
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1966 Ford Cortina GT
2018 Ford Fiesta ST
Full time engineer, part time waffler on Youtube - see Jim_Builds
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broady
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Oct 21, 2019 20:34:08 GMT
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Motivational progress, so many activates  |
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1966 Ford Cortina GT
2018 Ford Fiesta ST
Full time engineer, part time waffler on Youtube - see Jim_Builds
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Jim - Glad you have got it sorted - it looks a decent job and now you can concentrate on getting it back together over the winter months
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Great you have her back Jim now the fun starts.
I will be looking forward to following your progress.
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Brilliant. Should be ready by spring?
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broady
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Love it, cant wait to see the rebuild photos and progress. That was a quick turn around from the paint shop!
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Jim - Glad you have got it sorted - it looks a decent job and now you can concentrate on getting it back together over the winter months Thanks Chris, its bizarre to actually put stuff on and leave it on! Do you think I'd be ok to cavity wax the painted panels and shell? Great you have her back Jim now the fun starts. I will be looking forward to following your progress. Thanks Pete and thank you for the advice last week Brilliant. Should be ready by spring? Hahahaha! I wish but I'll do my best! Love it, cant wait to see the rebuild photos and progress. That was a quick turn around from the paint shop! Thanks dude - I need to come over and see the fasty again. I was surprised by how quickly it was turned around too! |
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2018 Ford Fiesta ST
Full time engineer, part time waffler on Youtube - see Jim_Builds
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Jim - Not a problem to start with the cavity wax - I would only use a high quality one through - Dinitrol ML is good stuff has is
Bilt Hamber S50 - I prefer the Dinitrol one has you can purchase it by the can that fits the air application guns / lances - it goes everywhere so you need to mask up well - including a disposable covering on garage floor - it cleans up easily though
Personally I would not use Waxoyl - its all hype and there is no lab or field testing to its credit (not that I have ever found anyway)
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broady
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Second for Dinitrol. I used a few tins on the fasty. ML is the best for old metal cavities. If you go for the shutz gun stuff, get yourself the cavity adapter, its cheap and useful tool. foot long tube with a 5 way nozzle on the end
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I have 3 bottles of dinitrol sat waiting to go on, I'll tidy up a few bits on the underside before. I just wanted to get it waxed before more stuff gets mounted
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1966 Ford Cortina GT
2018 Ford Fiesta ST
Full time engineer, part time waffler on Youtube - see Jim_Builds
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Jim - Not a problem to start with the cavity wax - I would only use a high quality one through - Dinitrol ML is good stuff has is Bilt Hamber S50 - I prefer the Dinitrol one has you can purchase it by the can that fits the air application guns / lances - it goes everywhere so you need to mask up well - including a disposable covering on garage floor - it cleans up easily though Personally I would not use Waxoyl - its all hype and there is no lab or field testing to its credit (not that I have ever found anyway) I have worked on cars I waxoyled 25 years ago and its certainly a darn sight better than nothing, the areas which rusted were the ones I missed or due waxoyls biggest failing which is it's lack of penetration into seams. Modern stuff is certainly better(just about anything recommended by an oem is good) but if you are on tight budget or the car simply isn't worth spending a lot on waxoyl(with about 20% clean 20/50 added to improve penetration) in my experience is a lot better than nothing. |
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Jim - Not a problem to start with the cavity wax - I would only use a high quality one through - Dinitrol ML is good stuff has is Bilt Hamber S50 - I prefer the Dinitrol one has you can purchase it by the can that fits the air application guns / lances - it goes everywhere so you need to mask up well - including a disposable covering on garage floor - it cleans up easily though Personally I would not use Waxoyl - its all hype and there is no lab or field testing to its credit (not that I have ever found anyway) I have worked on cars I waxoyled 25 years ago and its certainly a darn sight better than nothing, the areas which rusted were the ones I missed or due waxoyls biggest failing which is it's lack of penetration into seams. Modern stuff is certainly better(just about anything recommended by an oem is good) but if you are on tight budget or the car simply isn't worth spending a lot on waxoyl(with about 20% clean 20/50 added to improve penetration) in my experience is a lot better than nothing. Kevin - My point was to use a high quality treatment for better results & better protection that is both lab & field tested - your point is Waxoyl is better than nothing and you are correct but to that point you could warm a tub of margarine up and spray that on has that will also give some protection - there is not much difference between the price of the high quality treatment and the price of Waxoyl which only does part of the job that its intended for in the first place and carries little in the way of proven quality assurance - Therefore in my book the compromise is pointless |
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Nov 24, 2019 17:56:57 GMT
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1966 Ford Cortina GT
2018 Ford Fiesta ST
Full time engineer, part time waffler on Youtube - see Jim_Builds
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Nov 24, 2019 18:12:10 GMT
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Nice work Jim
My rear pillar vents were similar and worse than yours unfortunately they are made from pot metal then chromed and that can only be done once so unless you can find some good quality nos ones you are stuck with what you have.
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Nov 24, 2019 18:27:27 GMT
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The guy who I bought my dash chromes off (plastic) used these guys. I need to get my 2 indicator dash light surrounds done as well.  |
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Nov 24, 2019 18:30:24 GMT
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South Wales metal finishers did my zinc plating but they won’t post things back to you. I paid £40 for all the bits I had done but got the impression that the price was £40 regardless of how much bolts/ parts I’d dropped off.
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Nov 24, 2019 18:57:20 GMT
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Nov 24, 2019 19:48:09 GMT
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Thank you gents, I'll give them a try. I know that some items are hard to chrome like the headlight trims for heralds which are mazak.
I'm going to ask - I can always do these at a later date if need be
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1966 Ford Cortina GT
2018 Ford Fiesta ST
Full time engineer, part time waffler on Youtube - see Jim_Builds
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Nov 24, 2019 22:12:12 GMT
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I also got all my bolts nuts, brackets rings zinc plated with very nice results. For my Rover this was necesarry as you cannot buy everything new but i also got all the parts for my MGB zinc plated. You can get these new but in the end it adds up to strong money and sometimes need modification because these are just a bit different. You can also add the door lock mecanism and window winder components. When returned, these often look nicer then new.
I did make a list with small drawings of the more special parts, i send to the zinc plater to inform you what got missing.
I have send more then 10 shipments to the zinc coaters with making this list and never lost anything but before i made a list, i never was sure where a missing part would be. Stuill somewhere in the workshop or gone missing during zinc coating.
Enjoy this part of the restoration as you did a lot hard work in the past.. It will be a very nice car when done
Peter
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