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Post by dave1800 on Dec 29, 2015 1:57:49 GMT
When I was at Uni and ran my first car a completely worn out Morris Minor 803cc, I was given a small box of tools, and told in no uncertain terms maintenance is my responsibility. Admittedly you could probably dismantle the whole car in less time than to change an injector nowadays. I knew if I didn't learn, I would be back on the bicycle! Is Dad being too kind I wonder - perhaps a condition of borrowing the car would be at least be having to help fix it?  David |
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Post by Penguin45 on Aug 13, 2016 0:24:03 GMT
Did the cambelt this evening. Not having another Cornwall experience.. 2 hours - that's faster than the drive shaft point swap! MrsP pleased - was actually told I could go out for a pint! Large hole found found in front of o/s sill though. Sunday. Maybe.
Chris.
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Post by Penguin45 on Aug 13, 2016 18:41:48 GMT
Saturday and why not?  Front of drivers side sill after a whizz over with the wire brush.  Regularised.  Repaired and flatted.  Skim of filler, flatted and primed.  And a quick blow over of top coat. The plan was to line the sill with stone chip and then paint it black, but I found a scab at the other end of the sill.......  Poked it.  Ordered up a cover sill to use for a repair section, so more next week. Chris. |
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Post by Nick RS on Aug 14, 2016 13:30:39 GMT
Does anyone still make plastic cars? ............
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Post by dave1800 on Aug 15, 2016 0:13:20 GMT
McLaren Does anyone still make plastic cars? ............ |
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Post by Penguin45 on Aug 16, 2016 23:07:21 GMT
Had a bit of time this afternoon, so sorted the other end out. £25 for the sill really was a bargain.  Make hole into a sensible shape and sort out that inner bracket under the B post.  Tacked home along the top edge, plug welded to the inner sill and some upside down plug welds along the bottom.  Seamed home and flatted back. Ready for a little skim of filler and some paint. I've probably doubled its value. Chris. |
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Post by Penguin45 on Jan 9, 2017 0:08:40 GMT
Ah - it provides entertainment still. Our street is a hill worthy of minor note. Julia's bus, the Fiat Ulysse, required a starter motor fitting, which I did on Sunday morning. Ridiculously tiny motor to start a 2L diesel, but a load of faffing about saw it done. Mercifully, it's on the front of the engine and quite high up, so access wasn't too bad. And, it worked, which was nice.
MrsP and our Alex have complained of petrol smells from the Matiz over the Christmas break, but nothing obvious could be found. Sunday morning, it was parked up hill behind the bus with a full tank, and even I could smell it. Corroded seam on the fuel tank is the problem. I had to explain to the boss and Alex that I wouldn't be welding it up.... So the boys have had to be driven back to university by MrsP in the newly refunctioning bus and the Matiz ain't going anywhere until the tank is replaced.
They're 21 this morning. Where did the time go?
Chris.
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Post by snoopy11 on Jan 9, 2017 19:39:53 GMT
Is this a good time to point out that this thread starts with "what do 17 year old boys want for their birthday" 😎😎
i have have repaired a leak on a tank with that chemical metal stuff once. It was supposed to be a temporary repair but it gave no issues and ended up being a perminant repair.
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Post by Penguin45 on Jan 9, 2017 20:39:18 GMT
Yes - where did the time go? 21 years, never mind 4. Eugenie had a couple of perforations on the top of the tank which I fixed with Granville's PetroPutty. Good stuff. the Matiz tank has gone on the flanges between the top and bottom halves - can't putty that. I have sourced a decent second hand tank and that's on its way here. Oh, the Red Dog won't go either....  Chris. |
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Post by Penguin45 on Jan 11, 2017 16:57:20 GMT
Tank has turned up. I've given it a clean and stonechipped the bottom and sides, as well as fitting a new fuel filter. I think Mick and I are going to have a crack at it tomorrow evening. We'll nick the lift in the tyre place over the road for an hour or two.
Chris.
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Post by Penguin45 on Jan 14, 2017 1:03:00 GMT
Mick (The Mustang) and I fitted the "new" tank this evening. Only took an hour and a quarter and 15 minutes of that was draining the fuel out of the old tank. Seeing as the new one looked quite decent, I'd stone chipped the bottom half and scraped off the odd biots of rust on the top and painted over them. Bolted it home, shot the fuel back in and it drips fuel. In exactly the same place as the old one.
We went to the pub.
Chris.
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Post by peppib on Jan 14, 2017 8:10:44 GMT
Oops - sorry to hear that. Pub definitely the best place!
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Post by Penguin45 on Jul 7, 2017 16:42:02 GMT
Oh. Forgot about this.... I bought a brand new tank all the way from Poland silly cheap. That didn't leak. So that saw Alex motoring for a whole six months, until a couple of weeks back, when an engine mount collapsed. The AA dropped it off at a "student friendly" garage in Selly Oak, who gave him a very, very silly quote to replace the engine mount and the nearside driveshaft. £700 silly... Today, it came back to Yeadon via the Shiply delivery service. Shoved it into the garage and set to.  DSCN4565 by Penguin 45, on Flickr Metal cage holding the mounting rubber has disintegrated.  DSCN4566 by Penguin 45, on Flickr Getting rid of the rotten stuff.  DSCN4567 by Penguin 45, on Flickr New cagey bit. 2mm steel, should be plenty strong enough.  DSCN4568 by Penguin 45, on Flickr There we go. Engine back in the right place. £28 for a second hand drive shaft which is on its way and it'll be on the road by Wednesday. Chris. |
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Post by Nick RS on Jul 7, 2017 19:46:39 GMT
Chris,
Top marks for the dedication for keeping the little thing on the road, you must be the pioneer of Matiz restoration. I thought Shiply was a local spelling mistake until I looked it up on Google..........
Nick
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Ordered up a cover sill to use for a repair section, so more next week.
