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He does indeed. If anyone needs suspension bits or even a whole car built, give him a call on 07759 374128. The suspension arms are back ready for assembly.
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Apr 25, 2024 11:55:01 GMT
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Wayne has already built the crossmember The stand it's sitting on is for me to just put on the floor so it's set at ride height - that will make building the new chassis rails so much easier.
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Apr 25, 2024 11:53:28 GMT
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For a light car a remote servo on the front circuit only works well, but a simpler option which gives some warning of an issue is to fit a float in the cap of the reservoir and a warning light. (Car builders solutuons sell the parts). Already on the 'to do list'
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Dual circuit not really practical as ir has a remote brake servo.
Paul, bulkhead is only sheet steel, plus I'd need to extend the M/C pushrod.
Asking for the bits back is downright criminal. I will chop them up with my plasma cutter so they can never see a car again.
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Apr 24, 2024 23:13:37 GMT
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Casn you believe it??? Thr builder of the front suspension contacted Andy's wife tonight and asked for all of the front suspension back if we were not using it anymore as he took it off another car and wants to use it!! Told her to give him my number and ask me Bit more progress tonight, take some ally and turn it into swarf;
cut, cut, cut, file, file file, sand ,sand.... and we have this.
remove the spring(?) off the brake pedal and throw it in the bin. (thats about 15mm diameter for scale)
And mock it all back up again with the spacers fitted and a decent spring fitted. I'll get some clevis pins for the spring and brake rod pivots, and proper bolts for the M/C.
It all fits so much better now with room for the brake pipe to exit outside the passenger compartment. It will be easy to close this off properly now. That a temp bit of brake pipe chopped off the original to test the room and angle.
Started on the new mount for the steering column lower bearing.
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Apr 24, 2024 19:30:18 GMT
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Ctek chargers every time. Ctek
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Apr 24, 2024 12:37:22 GMT
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I wouldn't - it's so sticky it literally pulls your shoes off.
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Apr 24, 2024 12:33:54 GMT
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I can't disagree with any of the above. Aparrently it's not the first car to have to be rebuilt. There is a thread on a VW Corrado somewhere detailing a similar tale of woe from Car SOS.
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Apr 23, 2024 21:48:17 GMT
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I went over to Oddrods tonight and dropped off the stub axles and a shock so Wayne can get on with building the new crossmember. He has already made the wishbones - he's very quick to build stuff - and they will be going off tomorrow for cleaning & paint. I decided to pull the column out when I got home to check if there were any more horrors there - glad to report that there is no butchery of those parts at least. Andy was hoping I could move the steering wheel over a bit away from the door. It is actually nice and central to the driver, but there is a little bit of room to maybe move it 10-15mm without fabricating anything new. While that was out I looked at the big hole where the master cylinder goes through the bulkhead and how I might close this off. There is enough room to space it off the mount about 10mm which should give me room for the brake pipe to exit on the engine side, which will let me close it all off nicely to be airtight. What I did not expect to find was only one nut fixing the master cylinder on to the mount - and it is not even a nylock nut I mean For FU**S SAKE!!! WTF???
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Apr 22, 2024 22:46:53 GMT
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Not too much to report tonight as I did not have too much garage time. I spent some time measuring the front for Wayne at OddRods and will take the shocks & hubs over to him tomorrow night so he can start making the new front end. I had to set the camber first to be able to measure the hub width, the passenger side was 1.87 degrees and the drivers side nearly 4 degrees! I set both at 0.5 degree for the basic track width. Further checking showed that both lower wishbones are different sizes The drivers side being wider hence the extra camber. Then it was time to start taping the floor so I could take some plumb line points from the rear suspension points and the front end. I'll continue this later in the week to determine the cars centreline so I can take diagonals once the new front arrives to ensure everything is square. I found (another) big puddle of trans fluid on the floor tonight, further investigation shows it to be the kickdown cable leaking. This is a known problem on the GM180 box, and difficult to cure aparrently. A new kickdown cable will be going in and I've ordered some RTV sealant designed to resist trans fluid so hopefully that will fix it. The pen is pointing at the problem area. In the meantime I've started on the sloppy gear selector issue. The problem is that when the selector is moved it just rocks on the first pivot on the threaded bar rather than pushing the bar forwards. The short bar should never have been used in this setup so the swan neck bit of tube will be grafted in to keep the ball joint tight to the shifter base (which is over the centre of the tailshaft).
And with the tube made up the balljoint is now where it needs to be. I won't be able to finish this off untill the gearbox is back in the car so I can check clearance and also make sure all gears are selected correctly.
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Apr 22, 2024 22:10:41 GMT
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blackpopracing what stud pattern have the front hubs been made? If they are 5x112, I may have a pair of mk2 Granada hubs that are 5 stud already, vented discs and calipers (discs are lower offset than whats on the CarSOS pop, and shouldn't need spacers for the calipers) Just checked and they are 4.5" PCD.
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Apr 22, 2024 12:31:07 GMT
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Many thanks Davey
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Apr 22, 2024 12:11:40 GMT
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Many thanks Alex, it all helps.
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Apr 21, 2024 20:46:30 GMT
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I'll have a measure tomorrow.
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Apr 21, 2024 20:10:25 GMT
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Apr 21, 2024 12:20:49 GMT
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…and passenger side; Seriously? 😱 Is that “as built”, or is it just you throwing it back together for measurements? Rest easy Glen, that's just me loosely reassembling so I can undo it again easily.
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Apr 20, 2024 22:08:03 GMT
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hoping to be there with the NSRA stand & my car, come & say hello as it would be good to meet & thank all the people who have donated to my friends car.
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Apr 20, 2024 21:33:13 GMT
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Today saw a start of remedying the issues on the car. I have reassembled the front suspension & steering to check the heights ready for taking measurements for the new crossmember. I did a couple of smaller jobs after that, Andy had bought a boot handle (all it had was the escutchion cover for putting a square peg T handle through which is not really practical for Andy with his limited hand movements) so this was a little win. I started by carefully opening up the lock hole with a step drill and then with a dremel & a file adding the slots for the lock tangs; Th bootlid was then marked for the screws.
The bootlid was then tapped for M5 threads (it has a thick reinforcing plate inside) and the lock fitted. I'll need to paint all the raw edges to finish but otherwise it's done. I did spend an hour stripping & rebuilding the drivers door lock handle as the key often jams, it's much improved but does rely on the door handle being in the right place to work smoothly - no photos of that though. Then it was on to stripdown time, the nose was removed first, And then the inner & outer wings; I thought I'd check the camber now the wings were off, drivers side here; and passenger side; I'm taking my car out to a local meet tomorrow, but will start on the radiator & engine removal tomorrow afternoon.
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Apr 20, 2024 13:10:25 GMT
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Glen, I agree. If you can't do a job properly, don't do it at all. Darkspeed you can relax now; I'll need to trim the length a little.
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