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Dec 23, 2014 17:36:46 GMT
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from memory I think I followed this info from the viva club forum but can't be 100% sure, its been a while since I did it
dynamo to alternator
disconnect the regulator box, join the 2 thick wires together & discarded the 2 thin wires (one is simply an earth wire & the other is the old battery warning light wire,now not needed
to connect the new alternator discard the thin single wire (this went to the old regulator),then you should have left 2 wires joined together(a thin one & a thick one) separate these 2 wires,the thin one is your battery charge warning light wire & the thick one is the output wire
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jordy
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Dec 23, 2014 22:29:38 GMT
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Ok - I think I understand ! Thanks for the advice !! Did you notice much of a difference when you did yours ? Car looks amazing by the way !
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Dec 24, 2014 17:14:46 GMT
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Thanks  Alternators give a higher output and are more reliable, my dynamo was giving me trouble ignition light kept flickering when headlights,heater etc where on plus I wanted to fit a stereo,subwoofers,amps etc so I converted to alternator |
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new doors test fitted both door skin bottoms on my viva have rotted they have holes all the way along on both sides, you cant see in pictures because they've been filled but it bubbles back through after 6 months and I've just kept filling and repainting as a temp fix I was planning on taking them off and welding this winter but just as I was about to start two doors came up for sale on eBay drivers is new complete door and the passenger is a new skin with a very good used inner they fit ok for the first test fit, the gaps are couple of mm out so I need to make a tool to bend the hinges once they fit right I will take them to be chemically stripped    |
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vulgalour
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Stroke of luck finding those, don't look like they'll give you too much trouble to sort out.
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jordy
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Car is looking great ! Thanks again for the advice in the alternator - got it working !!! Love your thread - keep it going buddy
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Stroke of luck finding those, don't look like they'll give you too much trouble to sort out. very lucky must be fate I've been on the look out for new doors for 5 years with no luck and when I finally decide to repair my old ones a pair show up Car is looking great ! Thanks again for the advice in the alternator - got it working !!! Love your thread - keep it going buddy thanks glad you sorted the wiring out just looked at you HB thread, nice car liking the jag headlight mod |
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Howdy,
what size/brand are those black wheels?
I am looking for some steel rims that are wider than my stock but can still have the hub caps, for my HA.
Much like your self I have 2, one 'rat' fairly original and a shell that will become a tuner.
love your work, great inspiration.
Alec.
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Howdy, what size/brand are those black wheels? I am looking for some steel rims that are wider than my stock but can still have the hub caps, for my HA. Much like your self I have 2, one 'rat' fairly original and a shell that will become a tuner. love your work, great inspiration. Alec. thanks they are weller wheels 13 x 7 with 185/60/13 tyres if you want to keep the hubcaps you could get your standard wheels banded to the width you want have you got any pics of your viva's? |
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Last Edit: Feb 1, 2015 19:53:47 GMT by vauxviva
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Tomi, step away from the Viva and go and get your dads PhatRover finished......
Nice work with the Viva though.
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74 Mk1 Escort 1360, 1971 Vauxhall Victor SL2000 Estate.
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have you got any pics of your viva's? This is the rat a couple years back when i dragged it out of a falling shed. Didn't work on it until a few months back when i started to get it road worthy again, still looks about the same  The shell has had a bit of work and is almost rust free, few more patches. It is just sitting in primer waiting until i get my new workshop where    |
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Nice more Australian HA's. Great score on those doors Too. |
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accord83hi..John My dad won't let me any where near the PhatRover we both have totally different ideas of how it should look, I just have to leave him to it alecbb93thanks for the pics the shell looks like an interesting project, what are the plans for it? hastandard
just looked at your thread, like the new wheels you fitted 
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modified old rocker cover to fit a new custom oil cap stainless steel tri clamp fittings used, they are normally used in Food and Brewery Industries etc the slots that the old cap used have been welded up and then the hole filed out so the new cap slots in, then welded on the inside very happy with the result, no more leaking oil caps its just been put on the shelf at the moment ready to fit to a new engine I'm building     |
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Last Edit: Feb 3, 2015 21:01:29 GMT by vauxviva
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The shell is getting a bare metal resto and some custom body mods (flushing of panel joins, flushing rear wings, seam welding everything)
Then an engine/drivetrain swap, either a toyota or datsun, 1.6 to 2.0 possibly a pinto if I come across one
but this is all stuff I will slowly get done while I enjoy driving the rat around
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vulgalour
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Another neat and unique idea that fits nicely with the theme of the car. I don't know how you keep coming up with these ideas but I hope you never stop.
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Another neat and unique idea that fits nicely with the theme of the car. I don't know how you keep coming up with these ideas but I hope you never stop. Well said, Might borrow that idea one day. Would be a bit more expensive but a flip top fuel filler would be cool too. Not as original though |
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doors chemically stripped by www.paint-strip.co.uk acid etch primed and skin welded to inner frame on passanger door   inside the doors painted with epoxy mastic 121  UPOL P88 high build primer  black primer  sound pad fitted and cavity waxed  doors finished in matt black aerosol  |
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Last Edit: May 7, 2015 18:36:54 GMT by vauxviva
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I'm normally a hater of 'death row' Matt black, but your Viva is so straight and the black so immaculately applied, I really like it. Love the story associated with it, too. Great work.
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MK2VR6 -Thanks i have sealed beam headlights fitted but they are not very bright and one has blown again, seems the modern ones don't last very long so i decided to buy some h4 conversion headlights which are described as a direct fit/replacement's for the old sealed beam units only to find out that the lenses are a different shape and my half moon stainless covers will not fit so the only option to make the stainless half moon covers fit properly was to cut the lenses off the sealed beam units and bond it into the new h4 metal backings glass cutting using a diamond coated blade   sealed beam lenses bonded to new headlight backings  lights fitted with new flyeyes tint on  LED graphic rev counter fitted  |
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Last Edit: Feb 8, 2016 20:45:05 GMT by vauxviva
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