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 Expert Posts: 4458    Location: Jelling, Denmark | I think the lamp is from a mk1. hasn't looked at the connector in the wiring yet, but I will work it out  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | have had these alloys for quite a while and have had them send away for sand blasting but the sand blasting guy didn't do a very good job as they were only half blasted. he said that it was very difficult to blast due to the paint being a thick layer of epoxy paint so to continue cleaning the wheels so that they can be painted nicely I bought a can of paint stripper which I used today and it loosened a great deal of the paint but I will have to continue applying and cleaning to get them totally clean. I will be using my own sandblaster and a wire brush to clean them.     | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | did some work on the 998 metro today and yesterday. it wears the front tyres on the out side, maybe it needs to be lowered a bit to gain some camber it is pretty high. Other than find four good used summer wheels and fitted them. cleaned and waxed some of the joins in the front inner wings that needed some waxoiling. changed the rear wheel cylinders and pipes (changed the pipes because these are mini wheel cylinders and have inch thread and the old ones had millimetre thread). then cleaned everything including the handbrake brackets and fitted used but good liners. bleeding the brakes was difficult as always because when the pedal goes to the floor apparently it lets in air. then today I drove up to my parents place to weld up a hole in the exhaust, but on the ways it broke in two just behind the downpipe which made a lot of noise. when I got there I found out that not only was it broken in two but filled with holes all along the pipe so I removed the old exhaust and went out in my pile of stuff and found another used one I had. I fitted the new exhaust and with some heating and bending it was made to fit without touching anything. We also welded a reinforcement on the downpipe right where it always brakes in the hope it would last longer.                   Edited by DotMatrix 17/8/2014 9:19 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | as said earlier I fitted 4 used but good summer tyres. not the prettiest combination of wheels I know. I measured the height when we talked about the uneven wear and its 32cm on one side of the front and 33cm on the other so being to high isn't the problem. I have also included a few pictures of how its going with the wheels I am preparing for painting. I am currently done with one, another is almost done, a third is ready for some light sandblasting and the forth I haven't started yet. But progress is very slow as I am removing all the thick and very well attached paint using rotating wire-brushes of many sizes and small sanding stones etc. before removing the last by sandblasting.        | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | for long this car hasn't been able to heat properly and the engine wasn't getting hot, so I went out and found a thermostat I knew I had laying around and tested it and it looked good, closed properly and opened nicely when the water was almost boiling. then I changed the thermostat and went in to test the old one and as you can see from the pictures it didn't close properly, it looked crooked when open and the cap sort of thing wasn't attached so it was properly not closing like it ought to. so now the car heats nicely      | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | a couple of days ago I bought a can of rubber-like-oily rust proofing spray. My plan is that this should prevent the sand and other stuff from the road from removing all the rust protection and allowing salt in the winter to corrode the metal behind the wheels. today I applied this to the area behind the rear wheels. what I found when I removed the wheels was that not much rust protection was left in this area.   Edited by DotMatrix 27/9/2014 8:18 PM | ||
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 Expert Posts: 2029 Location: sittingbourne, kent | At least your thermostat bolts came un done, i ordered a new thermostat housing and stat for my Austin. Started to undo mine and all 3 bolts have now snapped the heads off  | ||
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 Regular Posts: 241 Location: Germany | In Germany many people (including me) use a product called Perma Film. It was initially used for salt water ballast tanks of ships, until the oldtimer scene "found" it useful.  Is this available in the UK? http://permafilm.de/en/produkte/ It seems to be in Denmark: http://www.fluid-film.dk/ | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | forcker - 30/9/2014 8:24 PM In Germany many people (including me) use a product called Perma Film. It was initially used for salt water ballast tanks of ships, until the oldtimer scene "found" it useful. Is this available in the UK? http://permafilm.de/en/produkte/ It seems to be in Denmark: http://www.fluid-film.dk/ ok. I didn't know that product but am very familiar with other rust proofing products available in denmark which are all wax or oil based. I have emailed the people to see where there is a store you can buy this stuff in. thanks for the link | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | DotMatrix - 30/9/2014 9:08 PM forcker - 30/9/2014 8:24 PM In Germany many people (including me) use a product called Perma Film. It was initially used for salt water ballast tanks of ships, until the oldtimer scene "found" it useful. Is this available in the UK? http://permafilm.de/en/produkte/ It seems to be in Denmark: http://www.fluid-film.dk/ ok. I didn't know that product but am very familiar with other rust proofing products available in denmark which are all wax or oil based. I have emailed the people to see where there is a store you can buy this stuff in. thanks for the link they have only one store in denmark and its across two bridges and about 150 miles away so I will buy some of it the next time I'm in that area and try it. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | so I changed the air filter and fixed a sticky rear brake. it turned out that the handbrake arm inside the drum was full of dirt and couldn't move so I cleaned it and didn't grease it in the join like I normally do, so now we will see if not greasing it will stop dirt collecting or make it go quicker than normally     | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | So I worked some more on the alloy wheels and now three of them are ready for the painter and the forth wheel is about half ready. I have removed the last paint from the three wheels using a dremmel like thing and sandblasted them afterwards to flatten the scratches made by the dremmel a bit. I will have the painter give them a coat of epoxy primer or something I can sand down if needed to remove the last scratches before the painter gets them back for painting.        Edited by DotMatrix 11/11/2014 9:42 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Today I changed the sparkplugs as the old ones had done 9000 miles. I also started to freshen up the winter wheels, removing the rust and priming, painting and giving them lacquer. Fitted two new winter tyres.        | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | More painting of winter wheels. they ended up looking nice I think      | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | quite a bad picture I know. It was very dark. anyway, winter wheels fitted now   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | better daylight pics of freshly painted steels   Edited by DotMatrix 30/11/2014 10:57 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | as its dark in the morning when going to work and dark in the evening when coming home from work it was irritating that the light in the car only turned on sometimes and I had no more good used door switches that were so I bought some on ebay and changed both.   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | so the car is still being used every day and is running well since I changed the oil adjusted valves for the third time in a month, the adjustment seems to stick now. a couple of the adjustment nuts are worn I think. As you can see we went to the tip one day. practical to have a metro when the trailer is filled with other stuff also we had a bit of snow one day as you can see but not much.   | ||
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