Darkspeed
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 4,671
Club RR Member Number: 39
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Mar 23, 2020 20:07:42 GMT
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Mar 23, 2020 23:43:34 GMT
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Incorrect bearings or washers missing at the very least, that looks scary!!
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Milord
Part of things
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Many years ago a friend of mine needed to go to work so asked me if I could drive his car to the local shop for oil & filters. He insisted it needed to be done in the shop so it'd be done 'correctly'. It was one of those "we do all marques" shops. I decided to wait in the shop as it wouldn't take too much time. I witnessed the mechanic drill a hole in the sump because he didn't have the right tool to unscrew the sump plug. He welded it "shut" afterwards. The car kept leaking oil afterwards and a new sump was placed a few months later. Not by the same shop though...
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Currently: BMW E46 320i Touring BMW E34 525TDS Touring VW T3 panel van 1.6d Opel Kadett C1 Caravan 1.2 Fiat 411R
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Love the split pins on the inside of the castellated nuts Darkspeed!
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Darkspeed
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 4,671
Club RR Member Number: 39
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Mar 24, 2020 10:32:48 GMT
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Love the split pins on the inside of the castellated nuts Darkspeed! Split pin - If only - At least then they would have made half an attempt to get it right. This one was also a good one
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Mar 24, 2020 11:10:44 GMT
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I love this thread
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Mar 24, 2020 11:35:39 GMT
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Back when I was at 6th form college by best mate had a brown Fiat 127, which he hated with a passion. The exhaust fell off not long after he got it, so he welded on a length of exhaust he got from the scrap bin which was pretty much straight through. He then drove it foot flat to the floor at all times - you could hear it coming from a mile away (literally).
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Old Fords never die they just go sideways
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Mar 24, 2020 17:18:12 GMT
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Love the split pins on the inside of the castellated nuts Darkspeed! Split pin - If only - At least then they would have made half an attempt to get it right. This one was also a good one Aaah, I see, was looking at the pics on my phone 😳
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Milord
Part of things
Posts: 155
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Mar 24, 2020 21:10:45 GMT
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I remember once buying a Volvo 340 turbo that wouldn't turn over. Problem was soon discovered to be a bad delco/rotor connection. This was "repaired" by stuffing loads of cigarette-pack-tinfoil on the inside of the delco-cap to ensure a "connection".
Drove it home for 130km's, then forgot all about my bodge and gave the car to SWMBO, who drove it for a couple of months until it suddenly stopped. Always amazed me how long this worked!
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Currently: BMW E46 320i Touring BMW E34 525TDS Touring VW T3 panel van 1.6d Opel Kadett C1 Caravan 1.2 Fiat 411R
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Mar 24, 2020 21:22:33 GMT
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Not a car but a truck. Back in the day, my mate had an ERF & the king pin was toast & had mullered the axle as well. He took the bottom plate off & just kept pushing a hacksaw blade in the gap between the pin & the axle & snapping it off. Move it round a bit & do the same. Zero play after a while. Oops
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Mar 24, 2020 21:25:17 GMT
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Pair of tights in a diff or sawdust, seen that done, quietens them down.... short term obviously
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Pair of tights in a diff or sawdust, seen that done, quietens them down.... short term obviously What, no bananas?
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Ritchie
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 765
Club RR Member Number: 12
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Not a car but a truck. Back in the day, my mate had an ERF & the king pin was toast & had mullered the axle as well. He took the bottom plate off & just kept pushing a hacksaw blade in the gap between the pin & the axle & snapping it off. Move it round a bit & do the same. Zero play after a while. Oops I used to often get old, knackered transits with worn front kingpins and hubs through a test by jacking up the hub, cutting a big washer in half, wedging it under the hub around the kingpin and zapping it back together with the mig. Play gone, a slap of grease on it, good as new. (until the welds break and the washer drops out)
Top bodging.
I also once had a lovely (looking) Mk2 Jag in once, the guy had just bought it and paid top whack for it as it looked mint apart from slight bubbling at the rear of one sill. He asked me to tidy it up so I attacked it with the sander to find an inch of filler covering full rolls of unused emery paper used to get the sill profile! along with some chicken wire.
Kept me in emery paper for months.
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Pair of tights in a diff or sawdust, seen that done, quietens them down.... short term obviously A couple of tubes of wynns gearbox oil treatment quietens knocking end bearings...can vouch for that one!!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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Ritchie
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 765
Club RR Member Number: 12
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Pair of tights in a diff or sawdust, seen that done, quietens them down.... short term obviously
Has to be hardwood mind for maximum longevity.
(at least until the buyer gets it home )
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Mar 29, 2020 20:07:30 GMT
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A guy I used to work with had a '49 Lincoln, that had been a mild kustom in the 80's. It was showing it's age & the sills were full of holes. He bought a couple of lengths of plastic guttering, & a tub of filler. Biff, bash, bosh, new sills!
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Mar 30, 2020 14:10:59 GMT
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30 odd years ago my sister in-law bought a sandy coloured Allegro estate, which looked suspiciously tidy, from a local back street dealer, first cold morning it wouldn't start (sod all compression) then shortly afterwards the lower parts of the car (valances and sills) started to crumble and chunks of filler sculpted on newspaper dated the week before she bought it fell out, dealers response - sold as seen! one area the law has improved over the years.
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Mar 30, 2020 15:06:56 GMT
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A guy I used to work with had a '49 Lincoln, that had been a mild kustom in the 80's. It was showing it's age & the sills were full of holes. He bought a couple of lengths of plastic guttering, & a tub of filler. Biff, bash, bosh, new sills! Well, they'll never rust again...
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Mar 30, 2020 15:25:45 GMT
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30 odd years ago my sister in-law bought a sandy coloured Allegro estate, which looked suspiciously tidy, from a local back street dealer, first cold morning it wouldn't start (sod all compression) then shortly afterwards the lower parts of the car (valances and sills) started to crumble and chunks of filler sculpted on newspaper dated the week before she bought it fell out, dealers response - sold as seen! one area the law has improved over the years. Before I passed my test, but a mate already had, he used to collect me in his russet brown allegro complete with quartic steering wheel One night I got a call, allegro won’t start So I wandered round the corner, he only lived about half a mile away, and had a look. No spark Well that’s what happens when there’s so much wear on the dizzy it’s missing the points entirely Closed points up on cam, hey presto, spark, car starts, we’re off down the pub!
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scimjim
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 1,503
Club RR Member Number: 8
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Apr 22, 2020 21:39:06 GMT
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