ProgRocker Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 Skoda Estelle/Rabid is on my 'cars I regret never owning back in the day' list.Along with the mark 2 Cavalier, Citroen Visa and Rover SD3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5speedracer Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 I'd not be popular on here if that was mine, I'd be rolling about in it as a rally replica in no time. You are John Haughland! Sent from my Redmi 4 using Tapatalk r.welfare and tooSavvy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 Troo Stories... Skoda bend pushrod on RAC ..shock..horror.. Man sent into nearest town to procure said, from scrappy.. Car roars on to be placed.. Aye dome, Lacquer Peel and privatewire 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 130GL dashboard... egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 Got very interested in rapids recently. Get twin carbs on the fecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 Oh...and I meant to add earlier. First thing you should change when you get it: Coolant expansion bottle cap. If that doesn't hold pressure the first time you hit a long hill it will boil in the head, cause the water pump to air lock and the engine to overheat. That will most likely see off the chocolate head gasket. For the sake of a couple of quid they cost it would be daft not to. I don't imagine any of the old fabric braided coolant hoses will be left by now, but if there are any just change them...they're the invention of the devil and were decomposing 20 years ago... tooSavvy and DodgyBastard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave j Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Bargain Skoda, I had a Rapid as my first car about 25 years ago and haven't seen a rear engines Skoda for years! You have a spare fiat twin cam engine laying around - I have seen Skodas with a fiat twin cam in the past, that would be fun! tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 ^^^^ https://goo.gl/images/8HveuQ Lacquer Peel, Christine, dave j and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgyBastard Posted October 13, 2018 Author Share Posted October 13, 2018 I think fitting anything that doesn't just bolt straight in is above my skill level... tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 I think fitting anything that doesn't just bolt straight in is above my skill level...I'm sweating out my exhaust fit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgyBastard Posted October 13, 2018 Author Share Posted October 13, 2018 I managed to get it up on the ramp, it looks fairly solid underneath. There's a few areas of surface rust in places, one of the inner sills looks to have been welded in the past but looks like it might get away with cleaning up and treating rather than any welding. RJC_4931 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_4933 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_4934 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_4935 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_4937 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_4938 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_4939 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_4940 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_4941 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_4942 by srblythe, on Flickr It's been here two days and already people have been asking if its for sale, one guy wanted to swap a mk3 Escort ghia for it and someone else said it was worth £2k as it sits. I'm not really seeing it somehow. We had a go at starting it by hitting the starter with a hammer until it started turning, yesterday it was just clicking so getting it to just turn over was a step in the right direction. It isn't getting a spark at the leads, there's power to the coil and there's a spark at the points, the previous owner said it was the condenser at fault so will need to order one and see what happens. I got a couple of other things done on other cars, I fitted a pair of tyres to the front of the Proton, it no longer wheelspins in the wet and I fitted a starter motor to the mk2 Polo, it now seems to start and run ok. There's still a few bits it will need for an mot but it's not far off. skattrd, RayMK, Skizzer and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Invacar blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Fantastic. I borrowed a 120 for a week 'back in the day' when I run out of cars. Brilliantly fun things to drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgyBastard Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 RJC_4990 by srblythe, on Flickr The grey 305 has been losing brake fluid up until the point that brakes barely worked so I had a look at the rear cylinders as I suspected that they were leaking. RJC_4992 by srblythe, on Flickr The inside of the drum was pretty greasy so I fitted a new cylinder on each side and cleaned the shoes and drums with brake cleaner. The gold 305 was also having brake issues but the fluid would disappear over a longer period of time and the brakes sometimes stuck on a little, I checked one cylinder which was completely dry and never got around to checking the other cylinder because I noticed that the rear arches were looking a bit crap and decided to tap them with a hammer... RJC_4995 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_4996 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_5001 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_5002 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_5003 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_5004 by srblythe, on Flickr Both sides are quite frilly but they've looked the same for the last couple of years, I had always disliked the look of them and knew that they would need done at some point. They were full of filler and expanding foam.I managed to save some offcuts from the inner and outer wheel arches on that red 305 so plan is to weld them in and make the rest myself. RJC_5005 by srblythe, on Flickr Broadsword, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer, Dirk Diggler and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled_Tat_Gatherer Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Liked - but fuuukking hell - tapped with which hammer? Thors? DeeJay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 That Estelle looks like a good one. Should clean up well. While you're under there, get that hose that links the bottom of the fuel tank halves together changed - it's still the original self-destructing green fabric covered stuff. Oh, also don't knackered the inner CV joints... they've been made of unobtanium since before I got my first Estelle in 2005. These cars seem to eat distributor condensers, so always keep a spare in the car. My money would that being the reason it's not starting. When set right and in good health these should start virtually instantly, the last one I had you could almost invariably start it by just touching the key to the start position for a fraction of a second. I do miss my one. I don't miss the pain getting bits for it was though, or the endless faffing around replacing knackered rubber parts that had perished. tooSavvy and DodgyBastard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgyBastard Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 Nu-metal... by srblythe, on Flickr Coprolalia, captain_70s, Skizzer and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 ^^ Agreed - above - Starting. Never faltered and made a fantastic 'thra..chaa..fff...froochhh...' upon firing up and thence emitted a kind of 'hi frequency jar of marbles' sound.. Fucking loved mine [jumped straight into the 130LSE from the 998 Imp] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Aye, the starter motor on these doesn't sound like anything else. Good game is in the supermarket car park, waiting until someone is walking behind the car before starting it and seeing how far you can make them jump... LightBulbFun and tooSavvy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbaldy Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 I've never really seen a 305 rust that bad I always thought they where quite rust resistant really loserone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 estelles are ace tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgyBastard Posted October 19, 2018 Author Share Posted October 19, 2018 Still can't get the skoda to run. Replaced the points, condenser, ht leads, rotor arm, distributor cap. Getting spark and fuel, pops and bangs when tow starting it. Have set the firing order according to the manual and tried numerous variations but still no luck. Sent from my G3311 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Decent compression on all the cylinders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 They can be a sod for fouling plugs when sitting for a while. Get them all out, hit them with the torch so they're cherry red, then throw them back in and start it as if flooded. In my experience, it'll go first try. Rocket88 and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgyBastard Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 I've never really seen a 305 rust that bad I always thought they where quite rust resistant really DSC_0191 by srblythe, on Flickr DSC_0194 by srblythe, on Flickr DSC_0300 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_1320 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_1328 by srblythe, on Flickr In hindsight I should have just fixed this one. DSC_0841 by srblythe, on Flickr Instead I used bits from this one to fix 4 other 305's. alcyonecorporation, Dirk Diggler, theshadow and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daverapid Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Still can't get the skoda to run. Replaced the points, condenser, ht leads, rotor arm, distributor cap. Getting spark and fuel, pops and bangs when tow starting it. Have set the firing order according to the manual and tried numerous variations but still no luck. Sent from my G3311 using Tapatalk That's definitely a timing/firing order issue. Set the crank to TDC and post up a pic of the distributor with cap off and also of the order the HT leads are fitted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Found your Skoda from a few years back. There's also a photo of it on a trailer three years ago, which I guess is when it went into storage. oldcars and RayMK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgyBastard Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 RJC_5093 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_5094 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_5095 by srblythe, on Flickr I swapped the carb over from my spare engine which seemed to help it run better. Before it was starting and running for a short time then would suddenly cut out and start running lumpy. RJC_5096 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_5097 by srblythe, on Flickr RJC_5099 by srblythe, on Flickr Still got a few bits to do, I need to drop the fuel tank and fit the breather hoses, replace the fuel hoses on the tank, make a manual choke cable etc. Dick Longbridge, oldcars, DeeJay and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N Dentressangle Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 It's been here two days and already people have been asking if its for sale, one guy wanted to swap a mk3 Escort ghia for it and someone else said it was worth £2k as it sits. I'm not really seeing it somehow. Buy this one https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1980-Skoda-120L-Estelle/163331084470?hash=item26074a90b6:g:tcAAAOSwjNdbz1Ho:rk:1:pf:0 and you'll be on the new series of Flipping Bangers, by the looks of it. Estelles have a following, it seems. oldcars 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgyBastard Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 RJC_4970 by srblythe, on Flickr Derskine came round and gave me a hand trying to start the Skoda, I took the rocker cover off and got it to tdc on cylinder one then put the leads in the correct order. It sounded like it was close to firing but backfired out the carb. Derskine reset the points gap then started to adjust the valve clearances when he discovered that the 5th pushrod wasn't moving at all when turning the engine over.I removed the rockers and side cover of the engine and discovered that one of the followers was seized, I tried tapping the pushrod which moved the follower down but then when I turned the engine over the pushrod would go up but wouldn't got back down. I had hoped that doing this a few times would free it off but didn't have much luck.Now I need to work out how to remove the follower. If it's an engine out job then I'm probably going to try and find a 1.3 Favorit engine. worldofceri, egg and the judge 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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