mylittletony
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Cheers! Although I'd have your mesh wheels from the 262 in a heartbeat  On that note, some height adjustment would look ace  In other news, this scruffbag landed back at home on Thursday eve:  Note primer on rear arches, that's where all this loverly rust was hiding  Fixed   In summary: Rear sill ends and drivers floor patch morphed into both rear inner arches as well  Then the donor engine decided to vomit oil, which had been overfilled to mask a knocking bottom end The old engine was slung back in, bolted up to the 5 speed, but then the PAS pulleys didn't line up. A replacement pulley was obtained and everything now works (fingers crossed!) The brakes pulling to the left was found to be collapsed brake hoses Then the clutch slave let go, so a new one was needed. MOT time! Insecure battery and faulty washer pump sorted and a pass was obtained! FINALLY. I taxed it sunday and used it yesterday and today to get to work, thoroughly enjoying it  Sunday was spent applying red oxide to the rear arches as some rust was already bleeding through... I also offered up the front spoiler from the spares car, should work nicely!  I've also refitted the old hubcaps which makes quite a difference cosmetically... upcoming jobs (once I've finished painting the kitchen!): Fit front passenger seat Fit rear leather seat (both to clear space in the garage) Start painting replacement panels |
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That is looking very good indeed...
These old tanks really are getting rare now and to see one looking like this is a good thing.
Keep up the good work...
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dazcapri
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Cheers! Although I'd have your mesh wheels from the 262 in a heartbeat On that note, some height adjustment would look ace Check out the 240 on airbags 25 minutes into this video |
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THE_Liam
Yorkshire and The Humber
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Love this. 240s are very quickly disappearing, even 2-3 years ago you saw them all the time, now I can't remember when I last saw one  |
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mylittletony
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Mar 24, 2015 13:46:59 GMT
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Mini update, I've spent an evening removing the blue from this:  to get this:  Which was then covered with this:  suffice to say I f***ing hate those upholstery clips. Just got to re-clip it and stretch the material where the zips are broken on the free covers. Then the base can get attacked and I can throw the old ones away and free up space in the garage - yay! I've also taken to working in the car park during my lunchbreak. I fitted the passenger seat a week or so ago and Monday's endeavours are shown below:  L to R: an air filter, my trusty pool ball knob (had it for 10yrs now on worthy vehicles), cheap crank breather filter, plugs and leads. Last night I also re-jetted the carb with the ones for the 740 application. Only some small size differences, but once I corrected the idle mix and idle speed screws earlier, it now runs without needing the choke and goes noticeably better. Hurrah! In other, less successful, news, I bought some wiiiide 15" steels from datman to fit the rims onto some 145 steels I have. It won't work the 145 centres are 33-34cm diameter, the 8" rims are 32cm inner diameter... My knocking exhaust has resurfaced, going to attempt clamping AND welding this time. The engine mounts are tired causing knocking from underneath and lots of vibes; will get some poly ones I think. I took this to show how less scruffy it looks with the centre caps on, but it looks really scruffy. But anyway - CENTRE CAPS... and a chrome door mirror  |
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Mar 24, 2015 13:58:38 GMT
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It is looking ripe sir...!!!
It may be scruffy but it ain't young and it's getting regular use so that's just how it should be...
Having said that it appears that with every update this car is less scruffy so it can only get better...
Superb...
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Mar 24, 2015 14:39:25 GMT
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One of these would look cool sans bumpers with a bit of smoothing...
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mylittletony
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Mar 25, 2015 14:40:30 GMT
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cheers grifterkid, it's a slow burn, but I'm in it for the long haul. varelse - the 145 has a smoother rear end, this is a bit gaping once the bumper is removed. As for the front, well... I'll take a pic once the bumper is off and you'll probably change your mind! Again, 140s work very well de-bumpered. In fact I wanted one originally, but they're harder to find and this was pitched at my wife as a safe family wagon where the 140 doesn't have 3-point belts etc. Still ticking off jobs so more to follow, I re attached the seat cover yesterday using cable ties instead of the clips - worked very well. |
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So... graft the smooth butt to it. Nothing like a bit of recorrective surgery.  |
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Last Edit: Mar 26, 2015 1:30:56 GMT by varelse
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mylittletony
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So... graft the smooth butt to it. Nothing like a bit of recorrective surgery. funnily enough after I wrote the above I went straight out to try and find a 145 valance as for the front, I'd love to graft a 140 front on, but it's serious work (custom inner wings, chassis rail mods and the wheelbase is different so wings would be custom) so I'll leave that for the future! |
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Haha. Nice! I'm curious to see what the front looks like without the bumper, although a bigger lip could be a way to alter that overbite?  I just scrolled up to look at the front more, and then noticed an odd feature in that the rear doors have got some major droop going on along the top? For no reason? |
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mylittletony
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Mar 26, 2015 10:31:26 GMT
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Haha. Nice! I'm curious to see what the front looks like without the bumper, although a bigger lip could be a way to alter that overbite? I just scrolled up to look at the front more, and then noticed an odd feature in that the rear doors have got some major droop going on along the top? For no reason? Hoping the spoiler will help the front gawkiness, might slap it on for a trial fit Yes, big design flaw. The doors are common with the saloon, which has a sloping roof. Again a lot of custom work to rectify |
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Mar 26, 2015 12:43:41 GMT
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Excellent work, looking forward to seeing this one progress.
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mylittletony
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Apr 18, 2015 21:41:01 GMT
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Mainly been enjoying this as my daily, but have done a few bits recently, been busying away with the seats. Fitted the rear cushion Thursday, we have full leather!   Photos aren't great as it was bright today and using a camera phone. The seats were filthy and took a lot of cleaning... I did take photos along the way, but they don't really do it justice. Had to clean my brush out several times per cover and they changed colour completely! I also gave it a wash today as it was looking pretty grimy.   Hoping to get a few hours in this week, want to tick a few things off the list. |
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kevfromwales
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the conrod's REALLY out the block now!
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Apr 18, 2015 22:42:41 GMT
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Dude, I completely missed this!
I have a 200 series mountney boss kit in the shed, bought for our old skiddy volvo, lmk if its of use?
Also have some badass 5x108 wheels which have been on a 200 series on this forum, sitting here doing nowt....
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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Just seen this for the first time. Its flippin great!!! I learned to drive in a very similar one. I hope you keep the bumpers and so on cos the pre-facelift styling is supa rare now and I reckon the cars best feature (along with the brown paint). Has the fuel economy improved since you bought it??
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düdo
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I really like this including the brown which is period poohfect. Are you planning to change colours? I've got such a No.2 brown on my Cruiser and I'm struggling with it a bit. After years in exile it seems that browns are coming back - I've seen a few new Bimmers in brown.
With those new lux seats you got yourself a low riding sofa!
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Last Edit: Apr 19, 2015 7:31:37 GMT by düdo
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Apr 19, 2015 10:22:52 GMT
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It is always nice to see some work done on a 240.
Have you considered swapping to a round headlamp front? On this lower-spec front end, you just need lights and surrounds, the grille can be kept....
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