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Sept 6, 2014 23:38:48 GMT
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Now that we're all up to date I can start uploading the occasional progress pic. Yesterday spent some time fettling the new Austin. It has no top end and sounds very rough but lots of grunt down low which is good for what I'll be doing with it. Today was a trial-fit opportunity.  10" rears clear the arm by 5mm. Success! |
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Sept 10, 2014 22:09:56 GMT
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Along with the new Austin I bought the makings of a third 7. Got this semi-rolling chassis to work from...   So this one will be built from all the spares, hence the sale of my other chassis project as this one is further along. Bolt on a body, axle and some lights, yep, it's that simple. my dad will be in on this one - 6 weeks he reckons to build it. Hmm. |
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Sept 11, 2014 18:27:22 GMT
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We all know what happens when targets get set  Best not even setting them. It happens when it happens. |
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Sept 12, 2014 23:41:59 GMT
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True. Such is the way with the other cars. Then things happen by accident. I sold the BBS wheels off the M535i (before it was even home!) and they came off last week. I put another set on with winter tyres I've had in storage for yonks but they were soft. Soft winter tyres in sunshine like we're having isn't good. So between a nasty set of wheels with good tyres and a set of wheels that have lay in the hedge for a year, I cobbled this temporary new look together:  |
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orangecords
Part of things
yawner extraordinaire
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Sept 13, 2014 11:03:43 GMT
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Proper tsw evos? Always wanted a set. That looks mint!
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I then wanted to start cleaning the interior as it stinks of wood (the material not the smell of a boner) best quote ever! |
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rysz
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Sept 13, 2014 15:02:59 GMT
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This is a strong look chap! I shared this on fb due to how good it looks! Rysz. |
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Sept 15, 2014 9:48:48 GMT
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Thanks. On saturday this was also attempted:  |
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Sept 20, 2014 1:55:25 GMT
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I'm trying hard to keep this thread moving. I'm determined not to let my usual passive not-doing-anything with-any-of-them car [lack of] progress get a foothold again. So although it might seem tiny, silly even, not worthy of a post, it is important to me that yesterday the Rapid got moved from one side of the workshop to the other, making it freed up a little space wise, meaning the Cadillac could also be fired up and moved inside after languishing in the yard for - unbelievably - over a year and a half.  Skoda looks almost good on spare set of centrelines (I have a habit of buying EVERY set of 4x130 wheels I see, 13/14 sets for three cars currently)  One was full of water which came spurting out when air was fed in, but it's still holding, so sloshy tyres it is! Starting the Cadillac is no whimsical fancy. As it loses ATF at a dramatic rate, it needs refilled every time you want to start it. It has a tiny battery compartment but its a lazy seven litre V8 with a duff starter so it needs a fully charged small battery and fully charged massive battery to make it start. Which it hasn't for ages, and the airbox and subsequent vacuum pipes are all off. Only took an hour to get it started, and only stalled twice doing a three point turn in the yard...  BUT IT'S IN!  Like I said, this is important progress. Now it can be lifted on stands, and suspension lowered/hardened, starter replaced, airbox replaced, lights renewed, air-con removed, wiper motor replaced, arches rolled, bodywork treated, and re-carpeted. As far as my projects go, one of the easier one. Certainly less trepidation doing that than the rear subframe bushes the E28 needs. |
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eternaloptimist
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Too many projects, not enough time or space...
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Sept 20, 2014 11:04:56 GMT
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Brilliant thread!
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XC70, VW split screen crew cab, Standard Ten
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Sept 22, 2014 21:36:05 GMT
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Right, it's been a few weeks since I ran my tank dry and chugged to a halt on the bike, ever since when it wouldn't rev out. This happened once before and was crud in the bottom of the float chambers. Mission of a job so I'd been putting it off but missed half the summer because of it. So, warm sunday evening, nowt on tv...  Start stripping  tank off, here is the target  Undo the hoses and tubes, but not the cables - turn upside down and remove more pipes  this is stopping it running... So then I put it all back together, and hey presto! nothing has changed. Still cuts out at around 4k. Clean the filter out...  Still no change! So in messing around I blocked the airbox to see if it was running too rich, and for one moment it worked - then didn't. So I pulled the airbox lid/trumpet off...  leaving the side exposed but filter still in place  and this time...  And off I rode into the sunset darkness to test it (after refixing bodywork etc) All is fine now. So it doesn't like the airbox lid now? Dunno. It works, so meh. |
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Sept 22, 2014 21:38:16 GMT
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And before I get told off, the engine was warmed up, the temp guage does not work correctly.
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Sept 23, 2014 7:40:01 GMT
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Would it be an issue with whatever a bike has for an air flow meter?
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Mark
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Sept 23, 2014 7:40:24 GMT
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And before I get told off, the engine was warmed up, the temp guage does not work correctly. Haha, is it bad that that was my first thought?  |
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Sept 26, 2014 0:14:44 GMT
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Would it be an issue with whatever a bike has for an air flow meter? Carbs so no AFM. probably an issue with them regarding fueling, it's still cutting out on idle until it's warmed up. I don't go until it's warm anyway though so it will do for now. And before I get told off, the engine was warmed up, the temp guage does not work correctly. Haha, is it bad that that was my first thought? probably too long around old stuff! |
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Sept 26, 2014 0:20:11 GMT
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So, yesterday.  Attack the 7.  undo side panels (almost). One coach bolt didn't undo so panel rotated for clearance, will cut it off later.  Dash panel out. Only had to lie upside down for two of the nuts.  Tada!  This is what a car looks under the bodywork kids. First time it's been this stripped down since 1984!  It's awfully tiny once it's out in the cold light of day. Now being even more stripped and then filled/repaired, which will then go on A7#3. New hand-built ally body for A7#1 anticipated around the end of October. |
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My dad and I have put in an hour or two where we can, body now stripped totally, ready for washing, rebuilding some areas, filling holes, and getting ready to be painted. Pretty sure this one when it goes onto the new chassis(#3) is going to be finished in French/Royal Blue with black leather seats and trimmings, and will have a stop/brake light frenched into the rear point. It'll either work, or it won't...   |
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New news runs thus, on Saturday the head gasket on the E28 let go, for no apparent reason apart from the caning it got up the M1 that morning.
Which set me in a right old predicament. My mother has two cars, as you do, but on Friday night one of them, a 206 1.4hdi, decided to cut out and not restart. Had it recovered and then it started, but it's out of test now.
The 540i, I sold the wheels off it. The Alfa, no MOT. The bike, no insurance. The van, away for a service and no MOT. The 110R was at home and I was at work.
There is a 328i waiting to be sold so I nabbed that for Saturday night but that isn't such a long term solution.
So tonight I did the only sensible thing someone with trade insurance can do, and bought a 1998 Saab for £200, in the dark, with a spacesaver on, 65 miles away, unseen, with no way to get home except to buy it.
The drivers window is stuck halfway up and the gauges only work if the lights are on, and various other faults, but no kittens died on the return journey so we're ok for now.
Better plans are afoot though.
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1930 Austin 7 Ulster - mid body transplant
193? Austin 7 Special - in "kit" form, i.e. in boxes, to be assembled.
1936 Austin 7 Special - ready to rock.
1978 Cadillac Coupe De Ville
1978 Skoda S110R
1985 Skoda Estelle 120L5
1986 BMW M535i - BROKEN!
1987 Skoda Estelle 130LSE
1989 Skoda Rapid 136
1990 Kawasaki GPZ500s - selling
1992 Skoda FavorAt
1992 Skoda Favorit Pickup
1994 Skoda Favorit GLXiE CD
1994 BMW 540i
1998 SAAB of some kind. It's silver.
2000 BMW 535i Sport - Broken down in the middle of England. Has annoyed me so will get dismantled.
2001 Alfa Romeo 156 V6 Veloce - torn between breaking it or fixing it (lots more spendy)
Floating around the peripherals, at work the van fleet has increased by the sum of one tidy Transit Connect, which has very slippery floors. Also a 1986 RX7, 1998 328i, and something else I forget are present but soon to be departed.
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 This is the Saab. I have not driven it since. because in a surprisingly tidy twist, a friend of mine who has not passed her test yet suggested to me she would quite like an Impreza, and I found her a black one for sale, but the sale became very protracted and I got bored listening to repeats of their conversations. I went to look at a white one with a view to bringing it home for her but it was an absolute dog - didn't even stay long enough for the seller to come out of his house. It was my way home, so stranded 60 miles away! Contacted the owner of the black one on the off chance and turned out he was working nearby-ish, so got over there and bought this:  it's a lovely car and I will drive this and also get the few small niggles sorted out at the same time until she is approved to drive and gives me time to sort a couple of my fleet out. It has a heater and AWD so perfect for the weather this week has thrown... |
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Oct 25, 2014 23:34:01 GMT
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Saab has now been disposed of in another tidy deal which saw another E39 come this way and get integrated into the work yard. One of the guys at work nabbed the Impreza this week but he got a MOT date at short notice and got my van through. Which was good, as I needed the towbar so that I could tow the Austin away to go field racing today:  Vast improvement over not finishing as in previous events - by finishing. Not without some teething issues, namely having no power on idle, and carbonating the plugs very quickly when revved, thus making it have less power and then spitting. Still - we finished. Austin #1 body is nearly ready to pick up (in kent!) and sold the motorbike last night. 1930 Austin 7 Ulster - mid body transplant 193? Austin 7 Special - in "kit" form, i.e. in boxes, to be assembled. 1936 Austin 7 Special - now back in competition. 1978 Cadillac Coupe De Ville 1978 Skoda S110R 1985 Skoda Estelle 120L5 1986 BMW M535i - still broken. 1987 Skoda Estelle 130LSE 1989 Skoda Rapid 136 1992 Skoda FavorAt 1992 Skoda Favorit Pickup 1994 Skoda Favorit GLXiE CD 1994 BMW 540i 2000 Subaru Impreza Sport Special 2001 Alfa Romeo 156 - torn between breaking it or fixing it. |
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