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Jan 23, 2009 11:44:19 GMT
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Heyyyy, Been brandishing the MIG a lot this week on my crispy crab. Started off with this:  Next I stitched in a small piece to join up the front wing:  That went quite well so I made a 'former' out of a ball-pein hammer held in a vice and made a piece to repair the rotten section of the front valance. I scratched my head a lot because this is a fairly complex compound curve and all I had to make it with was some hammers, but it turned out OK eventually after a lot of banging about:  After adding a couple of small pieces to fill gaps it looked like this:  Next there was a funny box section thing behind the front panel which had started to go, I repaired it:  Then closed it off:  By now it was looking pretty decent:  This is the view from inside the wing, needs a good clean up, prime and underseal:  Bit more to do round the headlamp bowl but that loks pretty straightforward. All in all a pretty satisfying outcome. What next? Well i have got some new seals for the brake system so next week i will try and get the brakes working, at the moment the M/cyl is empty apart from some green sludge in the bottom:  Also I have ordered some schrader connectors for making a hydrolastic pump, if they turn up I will have a crack at that, looking forward to seeing it sat at the proper height! I hate to see these old BMC buses with saggy hydrolastic suspension. |
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1974 Lancia Beta Saloon
1975 Mazda 929 Coupé
1986 Mazda 929 Wagon
1979 Mazda 929 Hardtop
1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica
1977 Toyota Carina TA14
1989 Subaru 1800 Wagon
1982 Hyundai Pony 1200TL 2-dr
1985 Hyundai Pony 1200 GL
1986 Maserati 425 Biturbo
1992 Rover 214 SEi 5-dr
2000 Rover 45 V6 Club
1994 Peugeot 205 'Junior' Diesel
1988 Volvo 760 Turbodiesel Saloon
1992 Talbot Express Autosleeper Rambler
2003 Renault Laguna SPEARS OR REAPERS
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rysz
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Jan 23, 2009 11:58:17 GMT
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Sweet Jesus - they are some amazing fabbing skills, that looked very tricky but you made it appear so simple!
Inspiring work there Mr. B!
Rysz.
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Seth
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Jan 23, 2009 12:00:46 GMT
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Excellent work B  |
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gearoil
Part of things
Projectless...
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Jan 23, 2009 13:58:59 GMT
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Very nice Mr B.  |
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bstardchild
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Nice fabrication skills Mr B
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Jan 24, 2009 16:00:42 GMT
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Nice bit of panelbashing there sir! ;D
What´s the rest like?
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Rob
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You know, for kids!
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Jan 25, 2009 20:09:27 GMT
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Wow - i didn't know you had it in you plums - good work on that valance piece !
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Jan 25, 2009 22:15:40 GMT
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Nice tinbashing sir - I salute you.
Always like the 1800 for some reason - there's a bluey-green one that parks in my hometown sometimes.
Massive inside, aren't they?
And it is possible to fit a transverse-mounted V8 in them (not easily, but it can be done - see Doris the mini on v8mini.co.uk).
James
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street
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6.2 ft/lbs of talk
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Jan 25, 2009 22:31:24 GMT
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Now we're talking! Lovely panel work  |
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Jan 25, 2009 23:58:36 GMT
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excellent [burns mode]
ps blx doesnt have a telly ;D
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Jan 27, 2009 18:27:45 GMT
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Decided to try and revive the brakes on this crab last night. The master cylinder was seized, so I took it off to put some new seals in it.  it was minging:  How do you get the plunger out of a seized up m/cyl? I tapped it free and pushed the plunger down the bore. Then I cleaned up the bore and tried to get the plunger back out again by clacking it off the workbench. It was coming out extremely slowly then didnt seem to want to go any further. I used lashings of WD-40 and after a fashion I noticed that the 'clacking' treatment had started a small hairline crack in the ally casting, knackering the job 100%. This caused my pi$$ temperature to approach 100degC, so I did the only thing I could think of and put a hammer through it:  and got the mig out again instead. template:  metal:  clamp:  weld + grind:  next:  |
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1974 Lancia Beta Saloon
1975 Mazda 929 Coupé
1986 Mazda 929 Wagon
1979 Mazda 929 Hardtop
1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica
1977 Toyota Carina TA14
1989 Subaru 1800 Wagon
1982 Hyundai Pony 1200TL 2-dr
1985 Hyundai Pony 1200 GL
1986 Maserati 425 Biturbo
1992 Rover 214 SEi 5-dr
2000 Rover 45 V6 Club
1994 Peugeot 205 'Junior' Diesel
1988 Volvo 760 Turbodiesel Saloon
1992 Talbot Express Autosleeper Rambler
2003 Renault Laguna SPEARS OR REAPERS
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Seth
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MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Jan 27, 2009 18:51:35 GMT
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so I did the only thing I could think of and put a hammer through it: Yeah, but did that get the piston out? Looks like your master cylinder is an angled one like the original Herald ones but with a big jar. That straight one you're getting should be fine but you'll have to keep an eye on the fluid level more often - we ran a straight one on the Herald for the clutch for some years. Top work on the wing! Its that kind of fast progress I'm really hoping will start hapening for me soon. |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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DutyFreeSaviour
Europe
Back For More heartbreak and disappointment.....
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Jan 27, 2009 19:59:59 GMT
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Nice metal magickery (is that a word?) Mr B. As asked previously - you gone over the rest so you know what's in store?
Please keep it that awful BL colour ;D
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Back from the dead..... kind of
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Jan 28, 2009 14:54:32 GMT
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Nice work Tosh. Curves look spot on.
Master cylinder shouldn't be hard to find- gives you timeto check over the slaves.....
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Feb 12, 2009 18:46:26 GMT
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dunno if anyone's ar$ed about an update from my shed but here is one anyway. So, last time I had smashed up the brake master cylinder with a hammer. A quick appeal on here located a new one off forum member '71 bug slug'. It was not quite the right one as the fluid resrevoir is too small, but it did fit, had the right bore and allowed me to at least bleed the brakes and see what else is going on:  what I found when this was on, is that the back brakes both wazz fluid out the cyllinders, so a new set of seals for those is on its way.  Next I decided to tackle the hydrolastic suspension. For that, I had opportunistically bought a hydraulic hand pump off ebay ages ago, here it is:  It cost around £50 and came with a 5-foot long hose but no connection on the end. The right connection is this thing:  A Schrader low-loss unit. Now these cost £50 off eBay, or £35 plus shipping and vat off Schrader them selves, so they are not cheap. Eventually I found someone in the states selling em a fair bit cheaper and bought a couple. With a thread adaptor from Pirtek I was in business, and pumped it up to the right height in about 30 seconds!!!!  Very satisfying! My first car when I was 15 was a morris 1100, and of course the hydrolastic went flat. When you are 15 and skint and live on a remote hill farm this is not an easy problem to solve! It led to TEH MEGA TEENAGE FRUSTRATION with not being able to drive my car so now at the age of 33 I am glad to have cracked the problem of deflated old BL barges. Next, I decided to do some more welding as I had not done any for a day or two. I started off with this hole in the sill:  I then splashed £40 at machine mart:  And got started by taking the back seat out, where I found this revolting item:  WTF is that? It seems to be some sort of mouse nest. Anyway it was pizz wet through and stank to high heaven whatever it was so I have put it out the way where I cant see it, and will deal with it later. on with the welding:  gotta be honest i'm a bit disappointed with the old metal folder. It gives a nice sharp fold at the ends, but the bit in the middle is pretty wooly, it must be flexing during the folding. Its better than bashing stuff about in the vice though so i'll just have to get over it.     decent eh? The other side sadly seems to be a bit worse:   So I have ordered a shonky Hadrian panel rather than try and patch this lot. These 1800 sills are quite complez with a central membrane that joins to the outer sill half way down, not sure how i'm gonna make a neat job of gluing it all together but i'll work it out when I chop off the old sill. L8RZ |
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Last Edit: Feb 12, 2009 18:48:08 GMT by xbo11ox
1974 Lancia Beta Saloon
1975 Mazda 929 Coupé
1986 Mazda 929 Wagon
1979 Mazda 929 Hardtop
1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica
1977 Toyota Carina TA14
1989 Subaru 1800 Wagon
1982 Hyundai Pony 1200TL 2-dr
1985 Hyundai Pony 1200 GL
1986 Maserati 425 Biturbo
1992 Rover 214 SEi 5-dr
2000 Rover 45 V6 Club
1994 Peugeot 205 'Junior' Diesel
1988 Volvo 760 Turbodiesel Saloon
1992 Talbot Express Autosleeper Rambler
2003 Renault Laguna SPEARS OR REAPERS
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Feb 12, 2009 19:23:43 GMT
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Out of all the tat thats flowed through the house of plums, this is the one I'm most exited about.
not that i love old bl motors by any means( before you all start shouting, ive had a fair few and theve always been a bit pez in a lovable way).
however ill quite happily drape myself over the bonnet of this and give it a hug ;D
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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Hirst
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This avatar is inaccurate, I've never shaved that closely
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Feb 12, 2009 19:25:07 GMT
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With a thread adaptor from Pirtek I was in business, and pumped it up to the right height in about 30 seconds!!!! Hey nice job, about time we had more jacked up cars on here! Fight the power! |
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Seth
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Feb 12, 2009 21:22:51 GMT
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Great progress, plums. That folder is like the one I picked up. I've only used it to do small bits so far and seemed to work well on them. How about welding some box section across it to stiffen it up? |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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Feb 13, 2009 16:09:53 GMT
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Very interesting, especially since you always choose project cars that I haven't seen any articles about for ages, let alone a restoration!
Keep up the good work & looking forward to seeing it at the Beds & Herts meet once it's finished ;D
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Last Edit: Feb 13, 2009 16:12:31 GMT by Paul H
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your welding skills inspire me sir. I shall possibly think about welding something again this week. also your landcrab is painted in the most revolting colour ever. congratulations |
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