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Post by Peter on Feb 19, 2020 18:31:30 GMT
This morning I was told as the car had been re-registered in 1994 that was the date they were going on not the 1987 in the log book but they said it would have been less value as a '87, they do not value old cars (classics) in the same way as the UK. So 1,036€ compensation for a car I cannot find in the same year and condition for under 3,700€, bastards! I can how ever take that money AND THE CAR and repair it myself although the "write off" is on the cars record it doesn't effect the premiums, weird! So I can get it delivered to my workshop 35 miles away and fix it myself, mostly bolt on bits and a little persuasion will fix it with a new headlight (about $60), I already have new indicators as the ones on there are bust anyway. Good job I am retired.
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Post by Peter on Feb 23, 2020 14:47:50 GMT
Managed to 'have my cake and eat it', or is it, 'eat may cake and have it'?
Insurance has paid up 1038€, already in the bank as a write off BUT it has not gone on any record and my current insurance continues as if nothing happened.
Went to our one and only scrap yard and lo and behold they had one E30, an early 318 2dr facelift model in blue, so wings didn't have the indicator repeaters in, same as per-facelift, so Bonnet, right wing, right headlights complete with mounting and grill, for 150€ and I can buy a chrome center section bumper for 120€ leaving about 700€ for paint and bit and bobs like 20€ for the two bumper inserts. A very good dashboard on Ebay for 150 quid (I hope, bid is in), that will find it's way down here as the guy lives in France and his brother in SE Spain. Under tray is the problem, a couple in the UK but collection only, both in the South East, (Bucks and Surrey) will not send.
I have spent an afternoon in the 'shed' getting the SS for it's move outside, gathering up all the bits and cleaning away all the crap so I can get that into a parking bay across the way in the underground and the BMW in, just for a month or less, depends on paint and parts availability.
Then of course other stuff awaits, Corsa B needs a crank seal and Mercedes the Automatic box repairing.
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Post by Peter on Feb 27, 2020 9:49:57 GMT
Bit worse than I thought, radiator support is badly damaged where headliht fits with bends at chassis leg, inner wing. a second hand frame cut from a E30 is on it's way from Latvia so I can replace the damaged section, Just debating with myself if to replace the whole frame or just the right side. This is the worst bit, box section as well so very difficult to get it square again. BIG dent isn't supposed to be there. that is AFTER I have had a go at it too. This bracket on the inner wing was flat to the upright and I managed to get it back in shape, kinda, just needs aquaring up now to no need to replace that section.
Front Mtech valance just went back into shape with heat gun so that saved 3oo€ and the s/h bonnet, wing and complete headlight unit cost me 125€, saving over 500€ Bumper center section is toast so 130€ for a new one. replacement indicators and right bumper was already in garage awaiting fitting and a new radiator arrived days before the accident.
Front panel/valance will need some attention as it is a bit bent and the right bracket is a mess but fixable, at over 100€ it needs to be. plenty of time now to prep bonnet and wing for primer and paint as I wait for parts from Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, China and UK. about 560€ so I was ble to buy a boot tidy and dashboard (mine is cracked t hell) with the insurance money. Poor old Ukhozi is opposite garage for the duration-
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Post by Peter on Feb 27, 2020 9:51:42 GMT
At least garage got cleaned. Poor Ukhozi. kicked out after all these years.
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Post by Peter on Mar 14, 2020 12:01:13 GMT
One glimmer of joy, as a result of having the repair the car I have the Vikings blessing to buy a small MIG welder. I tried with my small 100A stick welder but even with a 3mm electrode it blew a hole in the sheet metal of the wing. So Anette didn't need much persuading a MIG welder was the way to go and as a couple of jobs bought in some extra cash it was OK to spend 120€ although I see exactly the same unit being sold at prices from 79.99€ to 150€, so just need the fastest delivery starting Tuesday. I decided to go gas less as I can always get gas-less wire but not a refill for the CO2 or Argon. So looks like one of these will do nicely. All parts apart from the last piece to fit, the 'kidney' grill have arrived and are good to fit. Next stage is filling and sanding the HUGE bonnet and riht wing, welding in the replacement section, grinding flush and painting. Then after tea,
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Post by Peter on Mar 15, 2020 15:08:20 GMT
Due to Spain's clamp down I have stopped work for two weeks and just sorting out my stuff. Regards repair work and learning a bit more about welding, I usually use a 100/140A stick welder, I am buying a MAG(MIG) welder. One who knows better than me said not to buy a gas-less only one, BUT, only thing is, I bet he don't have to pay $120 a time for a bottle of gas as I would in Spain, plus regulator 15€, that doesn't come with welder. So I guess I will have to learn to use one without gas and cored wired rather than MAG welding but with gas option. When I built my daughter Ruth's Baja bug I was able to get some C02 from the local pub for a few quid but when the gas costs more than the welder, Found one with/without gas for a little more but plus gas and regulator for disposable bottles. Seems everything under 250€ is without gas nowadays. If I get the with/without I can use it either way, so way to go. RED WINS! www.ebay.es/itm/Soldador-de-...gAAOSw8o9dwXoGBUT, 8 liters of Argon is 109€ C02 199€, 1 Liter bottle CO2/Argon, 27€ I did look into hiring but none available locally and when I phoned further afield they wanted nearly as much a day as a new cheap one, plus gas refill..
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Post by chrisbailey on Mar 15, 2020 19:06:42 GMT
Id be intetested in how the welding goes. I need to weld up my chasis where i cut the napolean hat for the pedalbox. I was going to buy a stick welder, the inverter type but have been holding off debating getting a mig.
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Post by Peter on Mar 16, 2020 12:43:38 GMT
I have been ruining my failing eyesight searching the internet on MIG/MAG welding as I have used stick for the last 20 odd years so a bit rusty on using it.I did have a MIG (actually MAG to be correct)when I built the Baja Bug but sold it when I arrived in Spain as I thought I wouldn't need it anymore, idiot. but it was a with gas only and nowadays gas-less is the way to go and looking at the price of CO2/Argon I am glad I bought a duel mode one, the yellow one was gas-less ONLY, so no options for alloy welding with Argon gas, etc.
Of course you can use a gas MAG/MIG with flux wire but not a gas-less with bare wire, if you follow, so a gas one is best, my gas/no gas one was under 100 quid (I have to use "quid" as I don't have a pound sign), a roll of fluxed .8 wire was 17€.
Under 3mm steel a bigger one will actually be more difficult to use without blowing holes in the steel, you only need about 4V and 3,5 wire feed for thin stuff, MAX.
You probably know that already but many don't, including me up until yesterday, one good thing about the clamp down here is I have plenty of time for the internet but spending money when no work is very dangerous.
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Post by Peter on Mar 22, 2020 14:32:08 GMT
Food for thought.
1600 engine. 225.00 € Scat 69mm counter-balanced forged molychrome crank, 145.00 € Scat balanced, racing 'H' section rods. 267.00 € German main bearings Kolbenschmidt 9.75 € Scat Pro.12.5 Lb molychrome flywheel, 139.00 € Kennedy 1700 pressure plate, 112.00 € Kush-loc racing clutch plate. 59.00 € Main Bearings std OEM Std +1mm D/D +1MM 19.50 € Empi Molychrome billet gland / flywheel bolt. 30.00 € New later type thrust bearing. 11.49 € South Speed Sport's slave cylinder 80.00 € J tubes 21.95 € B.A.S. Ahnendorp exhaust 495.00 € Saco saver kit on transmission case. 26.50 € Engel 110 cam with new bearings, 95.00 € Scat alloy gear with Empi cam bolts. 8.50 € Scat lightweight racing followers lifters. 45.00 € Scat molychrome push rods. 38.00 € Clauuds buggiws extended sump 65.00 € HP oil pump 18.50 € Clutch 'wing nut' 1.00 € Scat 1:25 bolt on rocker kit. 139.00 € Polished 044 heads with 40 x 35.5 stainless steel swirled valves. 259.95 € Scat duel springs 49.00 € Case saber inserts 16.00 € Scat bolt-on alloy rocker cover. 44.50 € Empi molychrome rocker studs (do not use Bugpack, they snap like carrots). 11.95 € Dual Dell'Orto DRLA 40s carburettors 220.00 € CB alloy stacks - gas flowed. 80.00 € CB sports bolt on 3 1/2" filters with the carb linkage brackets trimmed off and polished. 80.00 € Home made all alloy cable and pulley throttle kit. 20.00 € 'Facet' red fuel pump on rubber mounts, adjustable fuel regulator, large glass in-line flter. full AN6 fittings. 15.00 € Inline fuel pump and filter units plus AN fittings,(replacing above Facet unit) 10.59 € Bosh 094 chrome dizzy 37.00 € Fuel pressure regulator with gauge 17.00 € Empi billet dizzy clamp, 25.00 € Pertronix 'Flame thrower' HT coil 52.00 € Electronic ignition module, (expensive Petronix umit died) 19.95 € Scat 8mm red HT silicon leads in alloy tube. 12.95 € Empi alloy calibrated "power" pulley. 19.50 € Billet alloy alternator pulley 24.00 € Scat chromed pulley bolt. 20.00 € A & A 1641cc cylinders & pistons, 135.00 € Scat racing circlips 30.00 € Bugpack centre mounted, polished, alloy fan housing/alternator stand and engine covers, (no more rust). 195.00 € Type IV "cool tin" under covers. 14.00 € Polished alloy cylinder covers 135.00 € Bugpack two piece adjustable push rod tubes. 86.90 € Chrome alternator backing plate. 17.00 € Empi billet fuel pump blank off plate. 20.00 € Brazilian alternator upgrade 75.00 € Dynaflo remote oil cooler 25.00 € via alloy ducting. Right scoop delivers air to engine fan input area. 20.00 € Full flow remote oil filter kit with finned cool cover. 119.00 € Empi breather kit 25.00 € Fan switch 39.95 € OEM engine mounts 60.00 € Earls AN fittings 86.47 € 44.87 € 108.52 € Oil cooler fittings 9.95 € Total parts, 4,332.24 € Plus post and labour, say 6,000.00 €
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Post by Peter on Apr 7, 2020 14:51:13 GMT
Nothing better to do than chew over photos of the SS and think of ways to do things better and it comes to a fairly short list but one thing is the fuel regulator, it's in the wrong place. So I am going to move it across to the left side thereby reducing the fuel line by over 2 feet, swapping the reg' to carb pipes and a much shorted vac line. (photo to follow) Removing the old VW front brake line support brackets and making better 'Wilwood friendly' ones.
Cutting an access hole in the floor of the arm rest box so I can change amp fuses, currently I have a big job lifting the whole box up to do that.
better access to the chassis number as 'one day' an engineer is going to want to see it clearly and if it's too much bother there is a "can't read VIN" that can go on the form.
Heat shield on the exhaust header under the engine to oil filter pipes and move the filter inboard 6" for ease of access.
Mount the 4" monitors to ends of dash, somehow, as I don¡t like the idea I had of using the 2DIN radio and a switch, better to have separate circuits.
Remove drivers seat, lift pedal box and lift floor to add sound proofing on both sides, sadly lacking at the moment.
Build cover in rear wheel arch so (Ford Sierra) wing vents actually connect to carburetor filter areas as intended.
Paint underneath, it has suffered the passage of time and needs touching up as does the gearbox enamel.
Change side window rubbers, they currently use the same as the doors and are too heavy, also figure out a better hinge and catch system, I need to be able to lift the window, both for mirror adjustment and pay at toll booths, something you UK guys don't have on the motorways but we do. So looks like plastic windows, top hinged and bottom catch. I know that last one is a bit optimistic but DO hope to drive it, one day.
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Post by Peter on Apr 18, 2020 12:27:11 GMT
Finally the Andalusian government has relaxed the rules a bit so some people can start work again,but only if in a certain occupation, of course a lot are abusing the relaxation. I had to attend to the stables quad Thursday and it keeps throwing the chain because the swing arm is bent and broken (backing up the little trailer sideways against the caliper, idiots), but I buggered up my right knee and can't get back to it yet. I was really in a lot of pain doing a hard job after lockdown, body just not used to it.
Frustration is killing me, My car ready for welding and reassemble and the SS burning parking fees just sitting there.
I have the time, as have many of us, and the parts and the equipment but can't get to it. It's going to be AT LEAST until the 25th May and then staged relaxation.
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Post by chrisbailey on Apr 18, 2020 14:23:29 GMT
Hi Peter, Hope your knee sorts itself out ok. If it makes you feel any better, I havent been able to do much on the SS either. The lockdown makes it a pain to get any bits you need, unless you plan everything down to minute detail.
Our lockdown is until atleast 7th May, and i doubt much will be open when it is lifted.
I hoped to get my car roadworthy if a bit ratty this year, i dont think that will happen anymore.
Has your welder turned up yet, maybe some practice welding before thecreal thing?
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Post by Peter on Apr 19, 2020 14:25:05 GMT
Hi Chris,
This Covid-19 is a total bastard, not in its self but the effect it is having on everyone.I just hope that 1918/1919 doesn't repeat its self when thinking it was over in 1918 they got hit with a reemergence even worse in 1919, as long as ONE person is contagious it can kick off quicker than the flu and they say a vaccine will be a year away still..
I have a quad down at the stables with a bent and broken swing arm, the one part one one has of course and I can't get to it until Monday. The new welder arrived and I had an argument with the suppliers about the as /no gas claim until someone on the welders forum pointed out it is an AC machine not a DC one so polarity doesn't come into it but I would still need to change the drive roller and tip to .9mm for solid no gas use. so they gave me a 15€ refund which is very nice of them. All things aside it is a pretty good machine for the money and I will convert to euro connector when warranty is out so I can run TIG as well.
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Post by Peter on May 11, 2020 11:49:16 GMT
As I can't get to my workshop I built one at home- Mt dear wife bought , at great expense, a monthly magazine with a monthly built it model garage of the 70's. 15 years later I have managed to get it built, took two weeks almost full time but now ready for final detailing. It's in1:18 scale so a spanner is 2mm long, tiny. I put my short range specs on the car as an idea as to how tiny 1:18 is.
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Post by Peter on Jun 29, 2020 17:02:10 GMT
Absolutely nuffin' on the SS, still with engine in but shift rod to dig out and connect and interior to re-assemble but it is due to get back in the garage by next month. hope so it's costing me 40€ a month just sitting there.
BMW is nearly done, bloody work keeps getting in the way, wife's Corsa blew the voltage regulator and stuffed 20V into the battery until I realized what was up, code 49, more than 17v at ECU. so drive with fan on full blast and all lights on, radio cut out on over voltage safety but other that that I think it escaped any voltage damage. Everyone wants to sell me an alternator for 90+€ so I bought a 6€ Bosch type regulator which is an half hour job to swap, cost twice the price of the regulator in courier charges!
Still trying to find a way to get largish packets from UK to Spain, Have this undertray 'collect only' in Prices Risbough and a newish LHD Dashboard near London. Would love to get the here without spending more than the item cost.
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Post by dickfs1 on Aug 1, 2020 23:44:34 GMT
hi peter, just looking at your 2ooo rover tank, just a quick question, i have got same tank,being my ss is a ford based ss would tank fit inside passenger cabin or would it be better if i cut out hole in boot wall? AND place from boot end as opposed from cabin end
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Post by Peter on Aug 4, 2020 11:13:47 GMT
Best is on the rear chassis above the axle as original build. With front engine cars get some weight at the back. The mid mounted Rover 2000 MkII tank was a good idea at the time after I installed the original VW one above the gearbox with the filler in the rear deck which I didn't like filling gas over a hot engine so, mid tank and side filler, cost a me a bomb but I feel safer. Mine is installed from the cabin side so filer on left and fuel return on right top. Breather in filler assembly. Sensor to rear. The wires with the red connectors is for the cabin light in the false bulkhead. Of course now the car is left hand drive it should be filler on right but I'll live with it.
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Post by Peter on Aug 18, 2020 11:40:09 GMT
In addition and something I will look at myself is a breather from tank breather pipe to air filter via a vacuum valve as on my Corsa B. so when the engine is not running it is closed off but when it is running it vents to the inlet of the carburettor.
At the moment I just have a pipe to the filler neck like a lot of earlier cars.
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Post by Peter on Oct 4, 2020 13:08:35 GMT
Had a few days off-line as a HDD decided to spit Windows 10 out and wouldn't boot, so had to download and reinstall and rebuild, pain in the butt, Well Blanca, the BMW E30 is across the way in parking at last and Ukhozi is back in the 'shed', floor mopped an' all. I had started to reassemble the engine bay but 1st I moved the fuel regulator to the left, near the inlet connector and shorter pipes, with left and right carb- feeds swapped over, bit of a tight fit with the oil cooler pipes in the way but snug is the word. When I screwed the alloy shroud on I found many of the 8 Rivnuts not so heathy so I am going to lift it off again and up the Allen screws from M4 to M6. Also a shot of the deflectors to get more air to #3, a common problem on centre shrouds like this. Interior looks straight forwards but I know the problem of making the chassis number visible for inspection is going to be difficult as it is covered by the arm rest and false bulkhead at the moment, so will need to consider that. Still not 100% sure on the 'A' posts, I am inclined to go for foam spray, carve and cover, rather than alloy covers and screws. The three parts of the dash are then to be joined together, preferably with fasteners of some sort as fitting all three as one unit through the door would be difficult to say the least. While I was underneath I was pleased to see things haven't changed a lot since 1995 so just a tidy up and some hot glue to hold LEDs and their wires a bit firmer and possibly a fresh coat of stone-chip and some red enamel on the gearbox. Making a stand so I can set the pump rate of the DElLortos, something I did 'back in the day' but not since I stripped them, so that will be a day in it's self, fed up wit putting 5L of 96 E5 in and having it evapotate and leave a goo behind over the months of standing and I have to run cleaner through the system, again. Just a Seat Ibiza radiator to buy and fit and I am free to do my own stuff at last. I have refused offers of double pay to work on the buggys as the guy concerned has no eletricity, no workshop, no lighting, no compressor and NO IDEA. Scrabbling around a dirty floor working on crappy buggys is not my thing anymore. Back with more soon.
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Post by Peter on Oct 7, 2020 0:03:37 GMT
Couple of good days with usual hick-ups but managed to get the engine shroud, alternator, HT leads, etc back on, I decided to fit new 4mm Rivnuts rather than up to M6, neater and clearance issues and all that stuff. so I fitted all new M4 Rivnuts and 4 new M6 for the alternator back plate too, great, until I came to the last one, the awkward bugger behind the alternator stand and yep, it cross threaded so in with the M6 tap and of course it grabbed it and snapped it off, so off again and drill out to fit a new one and then refit it all again.
Started to make the stand for the DelLortos, actually makes working on the fiddly beggars easier too. Off to the Chinese shop for some little funnels and calibrated things.
Great to be back on the SS again and knowing it's mostly tidy up and finish all the major jobs done and working.
Moving the fuel regulator was not simple and it just clears the air filter but over half a meter less pie.
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Post by Peter on Oct 10, 2020 16:02:50 GMT
Day spent making a DelLortos stand so I can work on and calibrate the DRLAs. all from scrap apart from the funnels, .50c each from Chinese and a basting siring 1.50€ .
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Post by Peter on Oct 24, 2020 17:02:02 GMT
Tried to get to the shed this week but failed miserably. A fiends SEAT Ibiza need a test but I had also just finished the front end rebuild after the dive down the bank, it was one of the days that has stretched into three.
First I drove East to wrong station in San Pero as I usually do and arrive at the place in time but soon realised I was at the wrong station, I should have been WEST in Estepona!, so off I go and arrive half an hour late as well as being in the wrong place the front left indicator packed up half way and did any filling station have a 12v 21w ORANGE indicator bulb, NO! so after wasting time I went to the 'poligino, (Industrial estate) and got one, sorted, or so I thought Then on to the the ITV station.
Luckily the guy in the office was helpful, which is a big change, and got me a test in minuets only to have the inspector send me away before he even started as there was a fuel leak in the rubber intake pipe to injectors, so away down the road, no-one had such a pipe of course so off it came, removed the special push on fitting and clips and buy the minimum half a meter of pipe for 20cm and fit the fitting on with a jubilee clip, refit to car, and after having to go back into the office and get the test rebooked.
In the end the bloody thing failed just on emissions so off to the factors for an air filter and some plugs and on to the shed to sort it out.
Late afternoon now and all sweet as a nut and according to my Colortune, all OK but who knows?
Back 60Km to Estepona but left my facemask (compulsory with a capital C here) in the shed so can't go to the office without one, so off home, get a mask, back to Estepona and the office only to be told retests (free) are no longer done on a 'fit in' basis but I have to book in on-line, so off home again, via the gas station as I used up the 10€ worth of fuel already and now it's due in on Monday, at 15:17- Deep joy!.
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Post by Peter on Oct 30, 2020 15:33:31 GMT
Well , got to shed and got the Dells dialled in easy with the right kit. One side was very week on the spring adjustment, barely squirting at all.
Put them back on and completed the install, with cables and filters, so when the new starter I ordered today arrives in next few days I can get it tuned in, again.
Gear change has gone from click-click to sloppy so in with the endoscope camera and see what's what. probably used a red plastic crap coupling.
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Post by Peter on Nov 6, 2020 23:31:08 GMT
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Post by Peter on Nov 10, 2020 11:08:01 GMT
Dam, blast and buggeration!!! Just as I am getting to sort out the SS the government impose another batch of travel restrictions other than for "essential work" so I cannot travel out of Estepona, "no movement between municipalities", and I would need to cross two to get to the 'shed'. (San Pedro and Marbella), so that is it until early December. I might risk it if it proves to be a bit lax but give a cop a new reason to stop you and they go mad at it.
Unfortunately it seems to be it is the young, the least effected, who congregate and take the virus home to be spread amongst the older people who get ill, if EVERYONE complied with the rules there wouldn't be a virus.
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Post by Peter on Nov 16, 2020 15:17:58 GMT
Bushes arrived today so I can sit here and stare at them, nice bushes but so annoying I can't go and fit hem. I WANA PALY, WAAAA.
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Post by Peter on Nov 18, 2020 13:53:36 GMT
At least my daily ride passed it's annual test (ITV) Wednesday so good for another year, barring prangs.
Gives me time to get on wit the SS BUT we have travel restrictions and it means I cannot cross Marbella to get to my 'shed' and crossing municipalities is banned.
Knowing there is another SS not to far way, well about 90 minuets) gives me a bit of a much needed boost and I hope to get it running buy end of year with new gearshift parts.
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Post by Peter on Dec 17, 2020 17:00:03 GMT
Been a busy couple of days in the 'shed' as travel restrictions are eased, (I am no Dom', the gearchange was a sloppy mess and whilst it was out a serious amount of work was needed before it went back in, also the starter just clonked so a ne one has been fitted. I will post a couple of photos on here but to save space I have updated my page. with it all on. http:ukhozi.page.tl go have a look please.
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Post by nickyjuk on Dec 19, 2020 22:24:37 GMT
Wow! That all looks like a very good job very neatly done!
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Post by Peter on Dec 20, 2020 14:06:14 GMT
Wow! That all looks like a very good job very neatly done! Thanks, I do try, in fact my missus, "The Viking" says I am very trying,
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