My 1.6LS - First car
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Good on you mate. your welding is pretty good. the feeling you get when your drivng your car that you have restored yourself is amazing. nice work.
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Cold weather rolling in and just started working on the outside of the car.
Cut some nice big holes in the car to get a nice clean sheet of metal in.
And 2 right above the leaf spring mounts.
Just those, gearbox tunnel and a little bit on the drivers side then i can put the interior back in. Plan now to get the car back on the road for winter... Motorbike is just awful.
Cut some nice big holes in the car to get a nice clean sheet of metal in.
And 2 right above the leaf spring mounts.
Just those, gearbox tunnel and a little bit on the drivers side then i can put the interior back in. Plan now to get the car back on the road for winter... Motorbike is just awful.
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
if only cardboard could pass mot.
Not much left to weld on the interior, car will be on its side when its all over to do the holes underneath.
Not much left to weld on the interior, car will be on its side when its all over to do the holes underneath.
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Restarted work on the car again but once again the weather decided to go off on one again. Did a little welding and to the passenger side of the car, decided to go fish out the pinto and rover v8 in the lockup to start playing with them.
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Really liking this and keen to see it progress. Top work mate!! Keep it up!
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Been busy with more welding on the inside of the car and i feel iv done with the interior welding apart from the boot floor. Now its time to get working on the exterior.
Been busy doing work on the side too refurbishing some alloys for another car. all 5 wheels were in this state
And managed to turn them into this
Been busy doing work on the side too refurbishing some alloys for another car. all 5 wheels were in this state
And managed to turn them into this
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Got bored of the cold outside so i decided to get my hand very dirty with the 1.6 engine. Current favorite tool now is the rubber mallet, Doesn't look to back at first glance.
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
that looks like a tidy pinto engine you got there tallent. did you get to fire her up while she was still inside the car
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Yeah it did fire up when it still all one piece. Ran like a bag of crap but did move under her own steam.
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
That's very neat welding, looking great.
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Doesn't look that bad when all the underseal comes off. Took off the strut without too much trouble with the old split pins, so many shades of rust.
Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Doing a good job - keep going...
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
If there's a bit of wear in the camshaft I have an almost new 1.6 item if you're interested.tallant wrote:Yeah it did fire up when it still all one piece. Ran like a bag of crap but did move under her own steam.
Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Nice work mate
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Thanks for the offer but my camshaft is looking good, but i do need a sump as the one i have has pin holes in various places around it.
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Re: My 1.6LS - First car
Looking good there Fella top work