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After reassembling the wheelie bars for mine ready for refitting tomorrow I got back on to Andy's car. After cleaning the trans fluid off the floor I 'dissassembled' the cooler lines   Then I refitted the shifter in the new position and modified the threaded rod a bit more. With that done I fine tuned the length to give really nice positive shifts for each position of the gearbox. Now the shifter is moved over a bit I can get the rod far straighter as well. Not the easiest to photograph, but this is it in situ.  And then remade in 10mm tube with welded on nuts for full adjustability.  I'm glad that job is almost done - I'm waiting on a remanufactured socket cup for the shifter which will take all of the play out of it - the 60 year old original is literally crumbling away. Off to the lake district first thing Thurs so tomorrow will be final packing and maybe a simple job on Andy's if I have time. |
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Jun 10, 2024 18:10:28 GMT
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Currently 10 minutes into a Car SOS episode where they fix up a completely rotten blue Uno Turbo which was originally bodykitted back in the day with plenty of expanding foam and filler. Having seen what’s gone into this Pop, I dread to think what’s going to end up under this one :/
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Jun 10, 2024 19:09:15 GMT
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Currently 10 minutes into a Car SOS episode where they fix up a completely rotten blue Uno Turbo which was originally bodykitted back in the day with plenty of expanding foam and filler. Having seen what’s gone into this Pop, I dread to think what’s going to end up under this one :/ just seen one of the car comp. companies have an uno turbo with a wide arch body kit on it and one of the things it states is restored by the experts on car SOS !! 😬 wonder if it’s the same one ? |
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Jun 10, 2024 19:12:27 GMT
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They resprayed it metallic grey and it had billet alloy wheels engraved with Car SOS when they gave it to him. Same one?
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Jun 10, 2024 19:21:02 GMT
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They resprayed it metallic grey and it had billet alloy wheels engraved with Car SOS when they gave it to him. Same one? yep that’s it the one pretty sure of it edit sdccomps.co.uk/shop/uno/   |
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Last Edit: Jun 10, 2024 19:23:26 GMT by redratbike
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The user formerly known as Thomas
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Jun 10, 2024 19:28:35 GMT
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thats a super neat idea, just put a new positive cable on my loadstar as the bodged on jump lead(!) was bugging me, never thought about putting in a fuse or breaker in line though as originaly never had one, good idea really, and i have space under the battery box, so priobably add one before I'm finished. Despite it having a hoofing big starter motor it doesnt seem to draw much current, so 100 amp may suffice. don't envy you too much with those trans cooler pipes, had a right job doing the one brake line on my truck which is 5/16" pipe, took me three attempts as it kinks really easily, compaired to 3/16, even when using a pipe bender. copper may be more forgiving than the kunifer i was using though. |
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Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.
1971 vw beetle 1200
1978 international loadstar 1700 4x4
1987 landrover 110
1994 Yamaha FZR600r
2010 honda CBF1000GT
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Jun 10, 2024 21:43:34 GMT
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I think I'll use 8mm copper pipe instead. Back from the lake district - we drove about 900 miles in the 4 days up there and I'm pretty tired! Car behaved itself most of the time - it did shred it's fanbelt, but the outer skin survived enough to keep the water pump running but not the alternator. Luckily it was only just over 8 miles from the campsite (we had just done about 150 miles that day) and not on the way home on the M6 today. A couple of trips to Penrith to the motor factors got a new one this morning, so it drove home faultlessly. Average fuel consumption was about 20mpg, with 22.5mpg on the way home today, not bad for a 6 litre carbed aerodynamic brick  |
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Jun 10, 2024 21:47:37 GMT
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Jun 11, 2024 22:54:24 GMT
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My pop got washed tonight to get all the dirt off and then it was back on Andy's. The new shifter bearing cup arrived so that got fitted - the old one was brittle & crumbling away every time I touched it.  And refitted in the housing - the top plate is not fitted here.  Then the shifter was fitted properly - hopefully never to come out again! Engine mounts were bolted up with nyloc nuts, another job ticked off, then it was faffing around with the shifter rod. It's always the same - the simplest jobs eat up hours of time. It's nearly there, it will be shortened a little tomorrow and once the correct length found it can be locked off and painted. |
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Jun 11, 2024 22:59:00 GMT
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Currently 10 minutes into a Car SOS episode where they fix up a completely rotten blue Uno Turbo which was originally bodykitted back in the day with plenty of expanding foam and filler. Having seen what’s gone into this Pop, I dread to think what’s going to end up under this one :/ Hopefully done a lot better than the pop! |
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I was watching tiktoks and one lad had video of some Hotrods last sunday and I shouted "thats Blackpops car".
Kids didnt understand...
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Jun 13, 2024 23:15:03 GMT
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Slow progress tonight, I have finally got the shifter mechanism all sorted and working correctly, I had to lengthen the bar on the gearbox a little to match the throw of the shifter and it now all works perfectly. Glad that job is completed, now just needs painting. The original (with first mods by me for testing) and the new beefier rod.  I then fitted the throttle cable, I'll need to make new mounts for the carb end which will also incorporate the kickdown cable. Then on to the trans cooler pipes. I decided the kunifer tubes were salvagable, so with the application of a lot of heat they were straightened out and annealed. I'm just over half way with them, they bend quite easily after annealing, but work harden quickly. The wobbly tube is where it has to fit around the bits of the chassis. This is the reason they were so crushed on before - the pipes were not kinked and just bolted up against the lumps of the chassis.  |
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Jun 14, 2024 23:05:01 GMT
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I had to admit defeat on the kunifer pipes in the end, they just were not long enough. So the first half is kunifer and the back halves are now copper - boy is it easier to shape copper! Almost there - but my mapi torch has just run out of gas so no more kunifer bending tonight. Pipes looking far neater and with no stress on them now - only temporarily fitted here so no clips on the hoses yet.  As the pipework is on hold the propshaft is now refitted to the gearbox - so another bit ticked off. The shifter parts are now painted in epoxy and I went over the underside of the car painting all the bits that were missed when car sos painted it.  |
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I absolutely love these cars with so much love and care going into their builds. I particularly like the Austin Big Seven complete with the period starting handle. Was one of the photos of Hardnott or Wrynose passes? It must have been a really enjoyable gathering with some great driving.
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Jun 15, 2024 12:14:34 GMT
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Hi John, the Austin has MGB running gear and was on the way back from a tour of Ireland (it tows a trailer as well).
The scenery was a short way up from thre campsite at Parkfoot at Pooley bridge.
We did take all the cars up the Hardnott pass last year though.
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Jun 15, 2024 12:53:05 GMT
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It's so nice to see these cars being driven and enjoyed and I can imagine that everything takes a lot longer than planned because of the number of people who delay you by just wanting to chat about the cars and the engineering that has gone into them.
I absolutely love the stance of that little Austin and would have been very pleased if I had built it. Has it been written up anywhere?
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Jun 15, 2024 21:42:47 GMT
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Jun 15, 2024 21:56:32 GMT
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Today was a good afternoon on the car. I got the trans cooler lines finished, just waiting on new clips to arrive in the post to be able to complete it. Then I started on the exposed wiring along the chassis. I had to disconnect the wiring at the dashboard to remove it all from the car, stripping off the taped up wiring I found 4 wires just chopped off both ends doing nothing. I'm fairly certain someone started wiring this car and then someone else took over & just chopped off wires that were not needed or were wired in a different way. Wiring removed from the car;  and the redundant wires;  Sheathing now put over all of the wiring and new bigger clamps fitted throughout. I still need to finish off the sheathing at the front, just visible on the left in this photo.  The eagle eyed will spot the taped up joint in the sheathing, I did not have a long enough single length in this size - it will get a bit of adhesive heat shrink over it before it's finished.   Much neater & safer, far happier with that.
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Jun 16, 2024 15:48:03 GMT
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Sold through a third party "motorworld" I believe owned by Mike brewer |
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Jun 16, 2024 23:01:20 GMT
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A long day on the car today, with some good progresss and some less good. It started well with the sheathing getting finished off at the front of the car.  Then it was time to sort out the fuel & brake pipes where they go through the chassis. As you can see they are too tight - grommets were fitted but they have already walked out and up the pipes.  The pipes were cut and the rear sections removed, nice and messy with fuel & brake fliud leaking out. The simple solution was to drill a nice big hole in the chassis, And then weld in a bit of roll cage tubing - not the easiest job upside down and in cramped space. This got dressed back a little and then I got the sprayer out to get some epoxy primer on it and also paint a fair bit more of the underside where it had been missed by the car sos painters.  The fuel tank box was done in some kind of aluminium paint that was already rusting and looked a bit pants - so this was cleaned up and done in epoxy at the same time. Next I moved on the the rear brake lines. Yes, that really is a completely unsecured brake line across the whole rear axle   you can just see in this photo the flexi line is a female ended one, so it is loose in the bracket on the body and also on the axle - so the 3 way joint on the axle can also wobble around.
Another better view of it.
 The good news is the bracket on the body was repositioned and one of the male/male flexi pipes off the old front suspension fitted which has the locknuts so it fixes tight to both the body bracket as well as the axle bracket.
So far so good.
Then looking forward to the front of the car I realised my nice new brake lines were too close to the exhaust. I built these with the engine out and did not realise just how tight they had made the headers to the chassis. So that line had to come out and be remade to follow a different route over the chassis away from the exhaust. Not the easiest job with the engine fitted, but it's done now.
Moving on the the rear axle, this really fought me - the new flexi bolted in nicely with nice solid connections, but the rear axle pipes were a challenge. For some odd reason the sockets in the slave cylinders are very shallow, so the sleeve nuts on the pipes only get a few threads into them.
I remade one pipe as it was too short, but I just could not get it to screw into the slave cylinder. Finally I managed it but has to remove it again to fit the union at the other end of the pipe.
Of course it then point blank refused to go back in.
In the end I made a new pipe and carefully trimmed the end of the sleeve nut to remove the plain section before the threads - ensuring it was still nice and square, I was remaking the brake pipe when it slid off the end and bounced on the floor - never to be seen again  After spending too long searching for it I gave up and had to make another one.
With all that done it finally screwed in properly and the pipe connected up to the T peice. The brake pipes were then secured to the axle with wire ties - it sounds like a bodge, but is an accepted fixing for them. The brake pipes are now rock solid on the axle, just the body section left to do.
A long day, but it's getting there.
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After spending too long searching for it I gave up and had to make another one.