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Post by neilsmith on Apr 20, 2016 16:32:25 GMT
My ford focus has now broken down completely, but It is because the high pressure diesel pump has failed. The car is not worth much money so isn't worth repairing. I am now looking for a replacement car. I guess that an 'Eagle SS' would weigh about 700 to 800kg and a car transporter trailer about 300 to 400kg so I would need to buy a car with gross weight of about 2400kg to pull it. There is a nice 'Jeep Cherokee' for sale not too far away from where I live. If it has a diesel engine it may be worth considering.
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Post by neilsmith on Apr 14, 2016 19:39:37 GMT
Looking forward to seeing your car. I have owned 3 before but not seen many other cars in real life.
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Post by neilsmith on Apr 14, 2016 19:33:46 GMT
Yes I was considering taking my eagle there on a trailer but the clutch on my ford focus is starting to slip. So I dare not risk pulling a trailer
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Post by neilsmith on Apr 14, 2016 19:26:53 GMT
This is how the tops of The doors are looking at the moment with the stainless hinges in place and the fibre glass repaired. I had to add and remove washers to get the door fit as good as I could. There is still a little filler work needed before I cover the repair with a gel coat. I think that the later eagle doors fitted better than earlier models. Attachment Deleted
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Post by neilsmith on Apr 6, 2016 16:44:04 GMT
It was very interesting to have a look over your car and very helpful. I can see that there was a lot of improvements made on the mk3 SS when compared to the mk2. Your car is a very good one and you should try to get it to the stoneleigh show.I wish I could have had more time to look at the car. I think that the seats I bought from you were corbeu seats as I found a picture in a kit car magazine. They are nice and narrow and fit an Eagle well.
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Post by neilsmith on Apr 6, 2016 16:35:32 GMT
Can you put some pictures of the car on this forum?
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Post by neilsmith on Apr 1, 2016 18:04:48 GMT
After sanding down and shaping the fibre glass repair I fitted a new door seal and now seem to have less leaks inside the car. It also looks a lot neater. I will be changing the door seals for some 'c' shaped rubber seals as I think this will help the door fit better.
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Post by neilsmith on Apr 1, 2016 17:56:45 GMT
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Post by neilsmith on Apr 1, 2016 8:35:16 GMT
Ok, looking forward to seeing your car
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Post by neilsmith on Mar 20, 2016 19:18:22 GMT
I am in the process of fitting a Cortina petrol tank to my ford based SS. At the moment the car is running off a motorcycle tank in the boot. The Cortina tank is loosely laid in place but no tank straps are fitted and the body has never had a hole cut to accept a shortened filler neck. Does anyone have pictures of their ford based fuel tank strap locations and filler neck location? It may give me some ideas before I cut any bodywork. This is how my car is looking at the moment.
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Post by neilsmith on Mar 20, 2016 19:04:51 GMT
I am looking forward to seeing the car with the body on. The car is looking really well put together so far.
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Post by neilsmith on Mar 17, 2016 20:42:31 GMT
That workshop is very impressive DIY. I have had a quote for a workshop in my back garden. It would be 6.5 meters by 8.5 with walls 3 meters high. But I have a narrow shared driveway and would need my neighbour to agree to move his gate post back about half a meter. I would have the base done this year and the workshop built next year when I have saved some more money. At the moment the eagle is parked on the driveway in front of The house.
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Post by neilsmith on Mar 13, 2016 19:07:05 GMT
That's very helpful thankyou. I have been in the process of altering the seal lip on the car this weekend and I will add some photos in a few days.
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Post by neilsmith on Mar 9, 2016 19:11:43 GMT
Can you remember where you got the door seals from in the picture Peter? Was it from ebay? Do they call them 'C' shaped door seals? do you have the sellers name? I can't seem to find any.
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Post by neilsmith on Mar 2, 2016 19:19:20 GMT
When carrying out repairs to the doors back in the summer I also had to fibre glass the inner and outer door mouldings together at the lip around the window that accepts the weather seal. I had to build it up with fibre glass matting and resin and I refitted each door to the car before the resin had set fully to try to retain the shape of each door. You can see from the photo that there is no gaps between the inner and outer mouldings now, but it did have a gap of about 10mm. I am not sure if all 'Eagle kits' left the factory like his, but the build manual says that the builder will have to apply a little filler around the doors where the outer door moulding meets the inner near the door aperture seal.
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Post by neilsmith on Mar 2, 2016 19:01:26 GMT
Yes, I have got washers under the hinges like you mention. There is about 3 washers on the front hinges and about 2 on the rear, but I may need to add some here and there to get the doors fitting better. Also the nearside door is a little too far forward and I may have to do some filling out of the holes in the roof to improve the fit.
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Post by neilsmith on Feb 27, 2016 13:11:12 GMT
I have removed the door catches from the sills and made up a threaded plate to fit underneath the sills. This replaces the nuts and washers under the sill and allows the door catches to be adjusted without holding the nuts underneath to stop them rotating when adjusting the catch. I now have to refit and adjust the catches. I think it is difficult to get the doors fitting perfectly though.
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Post by neilsmith on Feb 21, 2016 13:43:36 GMT
I was considering altering the shape of this to give it a gradual curve like in this picture. What does this area look like on your car Peter?
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Post by neilsmith on Feb 21, 2016 13:39:46 GMT
This picture shows what I mean about the 'right angle'on the lip that the seal fits onto. I may add some fibre glass to it to change the shape.
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Post by neilsmith on Feb 14, 2016 6:17:17 GMT
My doors are different to this as they don't have these ribs underneath. The ribs on your car must make the doors more rigid. Do you have any pictures of the door seals in the roof area? I am considering changing the lip that the seal fits onto in the roof area. So rather than having to try to push the seal into a right angle,I would change The lip to give a more gradual curve,so hopefully have less leaks.
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Post by neilsmith on Jan 30, 2016 17:54:04 GMT
There is a very nice SS on ebay that is for sale in Hereford. It has a starting bid of £2000 and has an American V8 engine in. Item number 231823613197.
I think it isn't listed under 'cars for sale' but another category. Ends 17.54 hours 30/01/2016
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Post by neilsmith on Jan 30, 2016 17:46:57 GMT
Yes that will be very helpful thanks. I fitted a new ballast resister type coil and refitted the original ballast resister last week and found that the car had a good spark and after priming up the carburetor with petrol it started well.
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Post by neilsmith on Jan 29, 2016 20:17:27 GMT
I made a new top panel for the doors. I used a piece of perspex to mould it from and built it up with about five layers of fibre glass mat. When it had set I trimmed it down to size then bonded it on top of the new hinges. Then after grinding away a slight channel along the join it was blended in with some strips of fibre glass and resin.
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Post by neilsmith on Jan 21, 2016 18:23:12 GMT
I bonded on the new hinges to the doors with polyurethane adhesive. I had marked out where the hinges had to be positioned by drilling through the door and straight into the old rusty hinges with a 6mm drill bit. When the old hinges were removed I then laid them over the new ones and drilled straight through the holes to transfer these reference points. When the new hinges were bonded to the doors they were held in the correct place with some 6mm bolts.
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Post by neilsmith on Jan 16, 2016 15:57:00 GMT
Back in summer 2015 I made a start on the gull wing door repairs. The main problem was that the mild steel hinge plates had corroded inside the fibre glass. Also the inner and outer door mouldings had never been bonded together in the window frame area, and this made the doors feel very flimsy. I marked out the position of the hinges on top of the doors and cut away some of the outer fibre glass.once I had done this the old hinges were prised out with ease. I then took them to a company who specialised in stainless steel fabrication who charged a very reasonable 100 pounds to make a pair in stainless. Read more: eaglecarclub.proboards.com/thread/2046/neils-ford-based-ss?page=3#ixzz3xWGClzrsAttachments:
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Post by neilsmith on Jan 12, 2016 18:54:23 GMT
Yes, I gave the points a quick clean, but I haven't checked the voltage at the coil. I gave the battery a good charge before hand but the ignition system has been set up with a 12 volt coil and no ballast resister. The main wiring loom had a ballast resister attached when it was removed from a doner car and I think these were used with a different coil which would have been 10 or 11 volts. I am going to get hold of one of these coils and refit a ballast resister. It would be better still with electronic ignition.
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Post by neilsmith on Jan 9, 2016 16:08:23 GMT
The bonnet hasn't been gelcoated yet but the paint sprayer has been very busy. I hoped to have the bonnet on before I went away for Christmas. When I get home I will start the eagle up as it hasn't been started a couple of months I have now got the bonnet back after being sprayed with gel coat. It was still a little tacky so I had to coat it with PVA and water, this starves it from air and allows it to fully cure. I have fitted it back on to the car and will have it painted at a later date. I tried to start the eagle today after it standing for a few months. There seems to be no spark for some reason but at least it gave the engine a good spin over and helps prevent the clutch sticking up.
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Post by neilsmith on Dec 31, 2015 19:36:46 GMT
After reading through Practical classical magazine' over Christmas I read an small article about the Montego' becoming a up and coming classic. There are now only 236 of these registered on uk roads. 64 Austin,23 MG and 149 Rover. This makes the amount of cars on the Eagle register look good ln comparison to such a large company as Rover once was.
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Post by neilsmith on Dec 31, 2015 19:12:51 GMT
I have also got an eagle ss that I bought in 2013 and got it running in the spring 2015. I had to get second hand wiring loom from a cortina that someone was breaking on ebay. I also had to rebuild the gearbox and replace the engine. You can see the progress on 'my build diary'. It is mainly body repairs that are needed now.
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Post by neilsmith on Dec 30, 2015 17:22:59 GMT
The bonnet hasn't been gelcoated yet but the paint sprayer has been very busy. I hoped to have the bonnet on before I went away for Christmas. When I get home I will start the eagle up as it hasn't been started for a couple of months
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