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 Expert Posts: 4458    Location: Jelling, Denmark | so I recently bought some metro bits here in Denmark which included this lovely tailgate which I will fix up as the on currently fitted has rotted away in the bottom. I plan on only painting the outside of the tailgate. I have welded the rust in the corner and treated the rust in the other corner. I have also filled sanded and primed it.         | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | finished the tailgate and will be fitting it soon    | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | So I took a compression test today as this car seems to be slightly 3 cylinder sounding and I don't feel it has the power it ought to so I decided to do a compression test to see how things were. it turned out it had a nice and even compression, but not that much. but then again it is an 8:1 compression engine. It could really benefit from a raised compression.  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | managed to get the newly painted tailgate fitted today. It looks really good with a newly painted tailgate  as you can see the old one needed changing I swapped over the window boot lock and everything and put the wires through and it fits and the rear wiper works. The brown stains you see is waxoil, I put waxoil in yesterday while the tailgate wasn't fitted yet and let it dry the night over. I haven't fitted the emblems yet as it got to dark but I will do so.     Edited by DotMatrix 11/3/2015 9:44 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | I changed the speedo today. the old one worked fine but didn't have a rev counter. So I swapped the existing one for this one from a MG metro, the new one have warning lamps for water temp and petrol level, everything works and it looks cool with the green lights but damn those lamps are hard to get out of their sockets! and the wiring in the car didn't have the wire for the rev counter as this is a cheap model, but I made one.    | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | So I have been noticing the unmistakable sound of worn out subframe mounts klonking, so I bought two new ones and fitted them today. Also I cleaned and wax-oiled the two rear inner wings and behind the subframe mounts.      Edited by DotMatrix 25/4/2015 8:31 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | got the wheels back from the painter. they are now primed and I need to sand them down before they go in to have some color put on  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | the car had developed a slight misfire which I had a suspicion was due to the points in the ignition being due an adjustment (20000 miles since I last adjusted them). I removed the dizzy, adjusted the points and put it back but the car wouldn't start. I measured that the dizzy did not provide earth to the coil even though I new that the points were adjusted correctly. So I removed the dizzy again and removed the points and then I could see that the points were badly pitted which caused the real gap to be much larger then the gap I measured when adjusting them. So I removed the points and filed them down to remove the pitting, fitted and adjusted them and fitted the dizzy back in the car and the misfire is gone now the car also had trouble starting which I cured by fitting a new 12v wire to the coil, which brought on stopping problems as I took the power from the wrong place in the fuse box. I cured this by fitting the right coil (a coil meant for ballasted ignition) and changing the start relay. which was meant to switch between 12v and 9v when starting and driving but wasn't working. This cured my running problems with this car so now its running very nicely | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | I never knew that the A-series metros could have a low fuel warning light but this instrument panel I fitted does have one. also a picture of the start relay which I changed.   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | The drivers side door is well rotten in this car and is beyond repair so I found another which is less rusty in my room of many things and started repairing it. So far I'm pretty pleased with the result although my welder still sucks. As you can see I'm not done yet.        Edited by DotMatrix 16/5/2015 11:48 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Marv_666 - 17/5/2015 12:31 PM Low fuel amber light and high temp flashing red light... handy to have!! I see you've done those types of repairs before! 'Almost' miss that kind of stuff... quick, noticeable results for your effort! Starter relay swap cured the problem with it?? yes it looks like the starter relay, the right coil, fixing the points and adjusting the ignition made it both start and run much nicer I have never had a running a-series metro before that had the low fuel warning light so its total luxury The welding isn't that great but it will be ok with filler and paint I think | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | So today I finished welding the new door, painted it and applied filler to the front of the door. ready for sanding tomorrow.        Edited by DotMatrix 25/5/2015 9:59 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | MetroGaz - 26/5/2015 12:18 PM HI Excellent workmanship as always. Well done and keep it coming on. Garry thanks. I'm having fun doing it | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | So I have been sanding a bit on the filler on the new alloys. what an annoying job to do. all those small holes. only done one wheel now. any advice on how to do it quicker/better?   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | so today I finally finished the new door and fitted it. it looks nice and the rest of the car ought to be painted in the same nice red color as the tailgate and door is but for now its nice to have a door without holes in.        | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | I also had time to fit a set of sun-blinds in the metro   | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | The shaft in the old dizzy wasn't straight and it was impossible to set the contact breaker gap correctly so I ordered a new dizzy. So the electronic lucas 45d dizzy I ordered arrived. it was very cheap and it wasn't perfect either, the square rotor you see that triggers the ignition was too big and hit the magnet sensor when rotating so fix this if you purchase one like it. anyway, I fitted it and it instantly helped. I have great hope for this dizzy to continue to make the car idle less 3 cylinders-ish.   Edited by DotMatrix 11/8/2015 10:03 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | did some work on the car this weekend. adjusted the valves (the two valves on the second cylinder becomes unadjusted quite quickly for some reason). changed the big plastic steering wheel for a mg metro leather one, I have an austin center to put in. also decided to repair two rust patches round the front windscreen which meant taking the windscreen out. I ran out of both primer and red paint which is why it still looks a bit unfinished, I will put filler on, sand and paint when I have purchased more paint. earlier this weekend I dug out several different speedo drives and pinions, calculated which combination I needed, put it in and now the speedo works and shows the right speed        Edited by DotMatrix 23/8/2015 9:50 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | MetroGaz - 25/8/2015 3:30 PM Hi Martin Good work here and it seems to me there is nothing you can't do to these Metro MKII's etc! Wish I had the ability to do all you can. MG thank you for the nice words its nothing special, just start fixing stuff and ask when you are unsure of something and you will learn along the way. | ||
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