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Oct 30, 2023 16:28:35 GMT
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Hi Dan, I've found 2 spare Tailgate handles, sadly not the locking ones though.
I'll try to get to a CT Hull Meeting soon, I'm busy next Monday so it may be December's meeting.
Charles
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Oct 30, 2023 21:11:12 GMT
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Hi Dan, I've found 2 spare Tailgate handles, sadly not the locking ones though. I'll try to get to a CT Hull Meeting soon, I'm busy next Monday so it may be December's meeting. Charles Thanks for looking Charles, ill have a look at them as the one I have is pretty ropey. Now I have your number, you'll get a txt to remind you it's on, anyway. |
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Oct 30, 2023 22:00:07 GMT
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Tonight, (well it feels like it as it was dark when I went out there), I have mostly been stripping the bulkhead. To make more room for Barry to work on the bulkhead for the bond, decided to strip the estate bulkhead, as it was taking up quite a bit of the floor space once it's stripped it can sit on its side in the corner. I found out I was wrong, how happy I was to be wrong, and I apologize to the person (whom every they may be) I maligned. The extra gauge panel wasn't glued in, it was held in by wing nuts, and what a beautiful job they made of the panel.   Just take a moment to look at the workmanship that went into this panel, the red switches appear to be lit and have earths beautifully laid out and soldered, the backlights of the gauges have a soldered loop of wire to earth them, the wires twisted together, rather nice work. Unfortunately, not only have one of the wires got a bit warm, but in complete contrast to the quality of the panel, they used an angry badger to cut the hole in the dash.  Ho-hum, well the dash is out now and the bulkhead is stripped of all but its commission number and one wiper box that will have to be separated with an angle grinder. This has to be one of the best bulkheads I've seen, the battery tray we already knew about, along with the split in the toe board, but I found just a little bit more. The floor pan  And the bottom of the A post  I'm looking forward to getting to work on it. Dan |
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I had planned to, chuck a coat of paint on the estate and drive it, but now having seen how good it appears to be, I don't think I can do i, if it gets worse I'll be kicking myself,
I'm thinking once the rust repairs are done, I should get the body blasted, cold galve spray the underside, and high zinc epoxy paint the lot.
It's only going to really cost the extra of the blasting.
Thoughts and opinions please.
Dan
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I vote yes to getting it as nice as it can be before it hits the road. It'll save time in the long run of having to do jobs like painting twice, and if you apply anything like bitumen or underseal that'll take forever to remove if it needs stripping down for blasting later. Of course, it's very easy to spend other people's money  |
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Oct 31, 2023 11:08:17 GMT
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Rotten A post pics bring back memories of mine Dan, only way is to take the mounts off and rebuild the floor and the bottom of the A post.
Chic Doig does the bulkhead side floor sections with both the bulkead mounts, not cheap but could save time.
I found this out after I had made my own ones, not very well.
Regarding the level of refurbishment you intend to do, I agree with biturbo228, make it as good as you can.
Who knows, there might be three Estates at Hornsea next year!
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Oct 31, 2023 11:55:13 GMT
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+1 for the ‘proper’ job on the prep and paint …
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Oct 31, 2023 14:02:40 GMT
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I'd at least get the Chassis, underbody bulkhead etc blasted and properly protected, you can always revisit the outer panels later on.
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Oct 31, 2023 18:28:38 GMT
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Rotten A post pics bring back memories of mine Dan, only way is to take the mounts off and rebuild the floor and the bottom of the A post. Chic Doig does the bulkhead side floor sections with both the bulkead mounts, not cheap but could save time. I found this out after I had made my own ones, not very well. Regarding the level of refurbishment you intend to do, I agree with biturbo228, make it as good as you can. Who knows, there might be three Estates at Hornsea next year! I have sampled Mr Doig's repair panels, Barry is fitting them to the Bond bulkhead. I'm hoping the A post has escaped and it just the pat h in the floor section, and to be able to remove the body mount and repair the hole behind it then replace it, foolish but worth trying. Dan |
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Oct 31, 2023 19:52:36 GMT
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The knot wheel of truth and broken dreams has spoken. But first the body mount had to go  Then the Knot wheel could make its decision.  Just the section behind the opening for the body mount was rotten, then a couple of bits beside it, I did massage the surrounding area with a hammer, and it all appears to be sound, so hopefully a not too difficult repair, is only a patch compared to what Barry has done to the Bond bulkhead. Dan |
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Historically, over Christmas I get some quality garaging in, this Year it was not to be my son is working in Aberdeen General Hospital and F1 doctors are on shift over Christmas, and mine is on a 12hr shift Christmas day, so we drove up and had a great time in Aberdeen, but the garage time lost out. First job was to scrape off 20 years of sticky congealed oil and grease and found some more rot.  which I ended up butchering out with a cold chisel  I hope to be able to repair this without resorting to one of Chic Doigs fine £60 repair panels, but we shall see.  I got a bit carried away with the angry grinder, and cut out the toe board   I'm thinking of turning the seam inwards, so there is no ledge for the road carp to sit on and rot the toe board out again. Hopefully ill get out during the week for more panel making. Dan |
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Just an odd thing I noticed, I carefully removed the commission plate and seeing as some of it was missing, I went looking for a replacement, only to find the current batch of repops differ from mine. They all have the GVW in LBS, mine is in kilos  So I checked the herald bible, that shows it with kilos, now why I ask myself would a car made in the 60s have it's weight in Kg. As I'm not a stickler for originality I ordered the £7 one with LBS. |
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Just an odd thing I noticed, I carefully removed the commission plate and seeing as some of it was missing, I went looking for a replacement, only to find the current batch of repops differ from mine. They all have the GVW in LBS, mine is in kilos So I checked the herald bible, that shows it with kilos, now why I ask myself would a car made in the 60s have it's weight in Kg. As I'm not a stickler for originality I ordered the £7 one with LBS. That could mean it was an export model, Sweden was drove on the left until 67, Malta and Cyprus are on the left too, but I don't know when or if they are metric to countries |
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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eBay turned up trumps the other day, a NOS locking boot handle for fairly sensible money.  A few weeks ago slapathy gave me some C pillar seals, a number plate light trim and an interior light for a triumph 2000. All of which I forgot to take pictures of. Another good friend of mine thinks he has a tailgate surround trim hiding in his stash of parts. I have also had another eBay find but that's a bit hush hush at the moment. Update on Sunday hopefully. Dan |
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You lucky, lucky people, I got up extra early just for you, so I could get back in daylight and take some pics to satisfy your burning curiosity of my latest eBay purchase. Rewind a few days, wiggly fingers, wiggly fingers, wiggly fingers. I'm sat not watching TV scrolling through eBay, as you do, not really looking for anything just browsing when saw a job lot of triumph bits for a few hundred quid, but it was in Telford, now geography never was, and never and will be my strong point, I thought Telford was more bottom right of wales and thought nothing of it. Fade to me driving back from a walk in the North Yorkshire Moors, and think is that where Telford actually is seeing as in a bit wibble po at the old geography, so I asks the Mrs and stone me I was at the wrong end of wales, that's a 3 hr ish run, when I got home I bought it, only to have my PayPal payment returned the next day with a note saying sorry, I ment to put cash on collection, do you still want it. I had a quick check on Wikipedia and bears were still defecating in the woods, so arranged to go this morning, I was awake just after 5am gave up trying to go back to sleep at 20 past and was in the car with a mug of coffee by 20 to 6, watched a beautiful pre-dawn sky just before I turned off the M1 and headed west, with a quick stop for more coffee in and out, I was there for 9am and loaded up the car before running away quickly with this lot.  pretty much filled the Jazz boot to the windows with ton of guages, switches, new trim clips, loads of used hardware, 2 wiper motors, 1500 carbs and manifold, stainless water bypass pipe, couple of wiring looms, a broken herald hood frame load of stainless trim,  4 new rear slave cyl and a fitting kit, new brake and clutch masters, another pair of type 14 calipers  A pair of rear hubs, uprights and drive shafts, a sliding joint prop shaft, a pair of 1500 vertical links and a pair of gt6 vertical links, with bolt on brake caliper brackets which are used on loti, apparently. The star of the show and the thing that actually made it all worth going for   A single rail J type overdrive gearbox, which at first glance looks OK inside. It even came with a bearing and the gasket set to put it back together, more investigations tomorrow. Dan |
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Well the investigations didn't get investigated, as it seemed daft to clear up the bench to just to do the gearbox, when there is 2 bulkheads awaiting attention, so I cracked on with getting the windscreen pillar done for the bond bulkhead see the bond thread for a really unimpressive photo, and then switched my attention to the estate bulkhead (how many times can I say bulkhead in one paragraph) I started making the toe board panel then thought it's probably best to cut out the rot I can find, send it for blasting then repair it when it's back.   Then I went back to emptying the last of the parts out of the car. Dan |
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Well i went out to the garage, looked at the bulkhead, decided I couldn't be arsed, then messed about trying to find something to do and found a big box full of all the detritus you get at the bottom of cardboard boxes when you buy job lots and peoples abandoned projects. Which turned into this  By that time SWMBO had finished a 2hr zwift session and was ready for feeding, which ment the end of garage time and began the afternoon of shopping and house work. happy happy joy joy. Dan |
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Jan 20, 2024 17:52:24 GMT
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I'm confused.
Where is the car.
I see the mecanno(ish) bits of car, but still no actual car......
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Meccano ish, is indeed a good way to describe the herald, it's carness only really comes when the component parts are assembled on the chassi. Here's how a herald sits on the chassi Fist the bulkhead that's the bit I've attacked with the angry grinder in previous posts, and is only visible on the completed car as the bit that holds the windscreen. Then the floor pan for the rest of the car goes on, this includes the rear wings. Then the roof goes on followed by the doors and the bonnet takes care of everything forward of the windscreen, add some fake cills to cover the chassi and apart from trim your done. Well there is an incredible amount of jiggling to get everything lined up before tightening everything up. Which of course is much easier to communicate in a picture.  Next time I'm in the garage I'll try to get some in situ pictures. Dan |
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