Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £90m
Just for laughs, how much of another car is there in bits?
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chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Mainly interior trim, switches and gauges so far from 3 ish cars, two boot lids and a petrol tank that pays for the lot if it holds fluid ... looks goit at first glance.
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Spent the day sifting through box after box of XJ6 parts I'd picked up. Listing parts to putv into stock and listing parts to sell on, probably as a job lot. Mainly internal fittings today, switches etc. Saving the heavy mechanicals till tomorrow. I know there are 4 (2 pairs) of good cam covers ... ebay suggests £100 each ... very happy with that!
I experienced a moment of out of proportion delight when I found an original car jack ... something else I can cross off my list of things to get.
The day before I made a clamp to hold the battery, together with a long unf threaded bold with an eye on one end to hold the clamp, as one of the two was missing. Then I made another battery clamp, this time taking unto account the height of the battery. Ffs!
Yesterday I found, in the box of parts, the battery clamp and eyed threaded bolt. Double ffs!
I experienced a moment of out of proportion delight when I found an original car jack ... something else I can cross off my list of things to get.
The day before I made a clamp to hold the battery, together with a long unf threaded bold with an eye on one end to hold the clamp, as one of the two was missing. Then I made another battery clamp, this time taking unto account the height of the battery. Ffs!
Yesterday I found, in the box of parts, the battery clamp and eyed threaded bolt. Double ffs!
I’m sure they’ll come in very handy when you build your own Frankenstein mate
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
I think I repaired the AED ! (Auto choke) ... bit of a black art, seen by many, who replace it with a manual conversion. Thanks to the wonders of youtube its workings have been brilliantly explained. So i took it apart and found a perished diaphragm (a 1"sq piece of rubber costing £35 ffs!) so replaced it. Now it doesn't make the engine flood if I allow fuel into it (remember how some genius put a GAS tap in line with it, that leaked when on?).
Truth in the pudding tomorrow if I start it more easily cold.
Managed to adjust the mixture a little, despite some gorilla in the past having sheared off the head of the mixture screw.
Also painted some grotty radiator overflow tubes, replaced the hoses and found a nice pair of cam covers to restore that will be better than the "hand painted with a brush" black ones.
And found a replacement washer stalk in the enormous batch of bits.
A good day.
Tomorrow it'll probably catch fire.
Truth in the pudding tomorrow if I start it more easily cold.
Managed to adjust the mixture a little, despite some gorilla in the past having sheared off the head of the mixture screw.
Also painted some grotty radiator overflow tubes, replaced the hoses and found a nice pair of cam covers to restore that will be better than the "hand painted with a brush" black ones.
And found a replacement washer stalk in the enormous batch of bits.
A good day.
Tomorrow it'll probably catch fire.
Graeme Shar-pei
Player Valuation: £225k
Not quite classics but early 2000s Japanese cars are amazing for the dough.
Had an old RAV4 Toyota for a while. Passed every MOT first time, and everything worked perfectly on it. super practical great handling, and previous owner had remapped it so it was like a hot hatch with 4x4
Been offered a mk3 Toyota MR2 for buttons, which I think I might buy for a weekend toy
Had an old RAV4 Toyota for a while. Passed every MOT first time, and everything worked perfectly on it. super practical great handling, and previous owner had remapped it so it was like a hot hatch with 4x4
Been offered a mk3 Toyota MR2 for buttons, which I think I might buy for a weekend toy
Alan Whittle
Player Valuation: £60m
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Today I drop out the rotten fuel tank.
This means removing the rear bumper, unscrewing the lower valance ... around 15 bolts plus one pop rivet where somebody did a bodge.
To drill out the rivet I had to remove the wheen, to get access. One of the 5 wheel nuts absolutely seized. Even with my hammer gun, lube and breaker bar it tool around 30 minutes to free it without shearing the bolt.
Then I found a screw in the tyre ffs!
Exhaust silencer had to come off next. Didn't look as though it had been on long. Absolutely impossible. Hammering chiselling levering, twisting ... nothing freed it. Had to cut the pipe in the end .... Will have to weld a collar on to repair.
Remove heat shield... another 5 pop rivets ... is that asbestos? Crap!
Tank finally out. Tap open the fuel sender to see if it would be saveable .... erm no. On the grounds that much if it had reverted to mature, I'm guessing - very no.
This means removing the rear bumper, unscrewing the lower valance ... around 15 bolts plus one pop rivet where somebody did a bodge.
To drill out the rivet I had to remove the wheen, to get access. One of the 5 wheel nuts absolutely seized. Even with my hammer gun, lube and breaker bar it tool around 30 minutes to free it without shearing the bolt.
Then I found a screw in the tyre ffs!
Exhaust silencer had to come off next. Didn't look as though it had been on long. Absolutely impossible. Hammering chiselling levering, twisting ... nothing freed it. Had to cut the pipe in the end .... Will have to weld a collar on to repair.
Remove heat shield... another 5 pop rivets ... is that asbestos? Crap!
Tank finally out. Tap open the fuel sender to see if it would be saveable .... erm no. On the grounds that much if it had reverted to mature, I'm guessing - very no.
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
New fuel tank turned up today. Plumbed it in, (a lot of wiggling to get pipes to line up especially the fuel filler on the hip) , put a gallon in and it stayed there .. no leaks. Will fill up tomorrow which will test the seal where the sender is. Put exhaust heat shield (finest asbestos), exhaust, two valances and the bumper back on. Have an alarming number of washers and nuts and bolts left over, yet had to run to my neighbour to raid a couple from his stock that I ran out of.
Edges of the new galvanized tank are razor sharp. Managed to keep most red in despite gouging a nice big flap in my wrist that I had to chew off. Nothing to what @tommye would blink at I'm sure.
Edges of the new galvanized tank are razor sharp. Managed to keep most red in despite gouging a nice big flap in my wrist that I had to chew off. Nothing to what @tommye would blink at I'm sure.
Owning a classic car is just like owing an old house.
There’s always things needs doing, it’s a money pit and for ever one thing fix, you invariably end up with another three things that need doing
carlos21
KING OF REP
Hiya Rita.
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Forward car that the seller described as "solid" (it is, to he fair) - I thought I'd nabbed a bargain. As it is, and with all the faults I've found snd rectified, it's probably a fair price and not a bargain. However, I've probably done work over the last fortnight, that a garage would charge a couple of grand for. I've spent around £400 on parts, labour and blood are just part of the fun.Owning a classic car is just like owing an old house.
There’s always things needs doing, it’s a money pit and for ever one thing fix, you invariably end up with another three things that need doing
Charles Hawtrey
Player Valuation: £50m
Ive been joining the cohort of Car people slowly as I prepare for retirement. For my sins we are a Volvo family, our oldest is a 2001 V70 but I have been looking lustfully at 'Bringatrailer.com' here in the US where true beauty resides..... its only a matter of time (and money) 
My first car was a hand me down Volvo 245 estate from 1981.Ive been joining the cohort of Car people slowly as I prepare for retirement. For my sins we are a Volvo family, our oldest is a 2001 V70 but I have been looking lustfully at 'Bringatrailer.com' here in the US where true beauty resides..... its only a matter of time (and money)
Did my driving lessons (3) and test in that thing, and within a couple of months had made it down to Southern Spain using it to travel and sleep in.
Absolutely loved that car despite it being turd brown.
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
A project?
This spotted in Aberdeen.
Buff out ?
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