jaypee

No apology required dude, it was definitely habitable, plus you had cleaned and polished it too! 😊

Decided to get in and about this over the weekend, as it was suffering from we'ans wear! 








It's come up well for an initial clean, need to re-vaccuum, as a lot of sand has appeared from everywhere after agitation 😂. 
Smells a bit fresher now too. No half chewed sweets either! 

Soz for the interior state, but in defence 1) it was a lot worse and 2) my vacuum is shit.

Aye, they were delicious! 
It drives well, feels more car like than the last Galaxy, the petrol engine doesn't really have the oomph of the PD low down, but is OK once you wind it up. Sure I can arrange for you to have a go. 

Also took the inspiration to make this... 
https://youtu.be/kCFF5HYWUmk

Decided to get in and about this over the weekend, as it was suffering from we'ans wear! 








It's come up well for an initial clean, need to re-vaccuum, as a lot of sand has appeared from everywhere after agitation 😂. 
Smells a bit fresher now too. No half chewed sweets either! 

FLEET UPDATE TIME.
THE ACCLAIM:
I washed it, put a cover on it and forgot about it.


Then one day I went to move it and it wouldn't start. A bit of faffing found that no fuel was reaching the carbs. Diagnosed fairly rapidly as a dead fuel pump. The original mech pump is NLA (I found one for sale in Aus, but it was gonna be £120 for a 30+ year old part...) so I replaced it with a decent quality electric lift pump. Currently it's wired direct to the battery so I can move the car around the driveway and works great. Just need to find a switched live to run it from and somewhere to mount it.
Less good was this:

The cover was fine for the 5 odd weeks of no rain we had but some rain leaked through and the mineral content seemingly baked into the paint within the space of 2 days. Polish/T Cut wouldn't touch it so I resorted to wet sanding which  at least got it to a point where it's not as noticeable. This paint just has no resilience to fuck all. The only reason I put a cover on it was that any bird shit causes the paint to crack in under 24hrs.
Even less good was that while I was hunting for a fuel pump mounting spot I spied that the passenger side windscreen wiper had collapsed into the scuttle panel.


Essentially it's just rotted off. Access is abysmal, ideally the windscreen would come out for a proper repair, but they're NLA and mine is cracked already and the seals are also NLA so that's not happening. I have formulated a vague plan of making an entirely new mounting plinth and welding it in font of the original. This is somewhat down the priority list currently as I've been working on...
THE VOLVO:


Nothing major to report with this one. I replaced the ARB drop links.

Naturally there are two styles and the one I needed was seemingly out of production and only available easily on mainland Europe. Luckily I found Brookhouse Volvo had some in stock, albeit at double the price of the Euro stockists.
@rml2345 also raided a 740 saloon that had landed in U-Pull-It in Inverkeithing and got me a few bits. Namely a correct side rubbing strip to replace the 940 one I had, a tow cover and the trim for the windscreen corners.



Just back from a Haven caravan park holiday in it (Me and the Mrs really know how to live).

The main eater of my free time has been...
THE DOLOSHITE:
I continued building up the newest iteration of it's powerplant.



@juular and Mrs Juular came over, dropped off and assembled @320touring's engine crane which had been used to fit a Volvo Amazon engine. Then Mr Touring himself and @jaypee came over to assist with the engine swappage.



Manifolds were tarted up and swapped over.




It took a while to get the engine wiggled onto the gearbox but with some blocks of wood and a jack we got the two angled correctly and bolted up.
The only real issue was when the front engine lift point/alternator bracket died midway through lifting the new engine.

Luckily it snapped and then slowly bent rather than letting go and instantly dropping the engine onto the nose of the car and @320touring spotted it dying. Presumably it was just fatigue from having been used to lift the engine on multiple occasions. Luckily I had a spare...

We actually used a different mount for the lift though, one off the Herald engine which was a different design with less harsh angles.
The following day @davidfowler2000 came over and helped for a bit before utilising my driveway to swap his 205's sump... Then @juular, Mrs Juular and @Supernaut turned up to really start devaluing the local property values.

Several days were then spent trying to get the fucking thing to run.

Essentially it'd cough but not actually run. We swapped the carb, the dizzy, the coil, wiring, cleaned points, adjusted mixture. You name it we fucked about with it endlessly. Eventually I had to admit that, despite quadruple checking everything I must have fucked up the cam timing.

I think it was 3/4 a tooth out. Or something fucking silly like that. Anyway it got put back together and an attempt to start had it briefly run for a few seconds. So the cooling system was rigged back up ready for breaking in.

Then I broke it in. Nothing particularly interesting to report except it'd only run on full choke. After the break in I found massive air leaks around the carb so manufactured some new gaskets.

Breaking in oil already swapped for 20w50 and the filter changed. On the "to-do" list is re-torqueing the cylinder head and doing the valve clearances again, refilling the coolant system, as at the moment it's just water for leak testing and flushing, and carb tuning/double checking ignition timing. Then I can start road testing.
Fixed the (loose) headlights in with new hardware today and Girlfriend_70s assisted in fitting the bonnet this eve.

Maybe by the tail end of this summer I'll have three fully functional cars...

 

I used rental ones of these for as inter-terminal shuttles at Heathrow when they were new.
Very capable, as we were moving kids and their luggage between terminals, the fact that you can reconfigure the seats in seconds was invaluable. They all drove well (must have had over 20 in different specs) but the TDci was a little gutless low down when laden up. 
Comfy, and easy to jump in and out of.  I was doing 200+ miles a day without leaving the airport roads.

It's better that they have normal doors, rather than sliders also. 

Aye, they were delicious! 
It drives well, feels more car like than the last Galaxy, the petrol engine doesn't really have the oomph of the PD low down, but is OK once you wind it up. Sure I can arrange for you to have a go. 

All fully chewed now?
How does the Galaxy drive and what's it like? I've been curious about these for a few years. They're very prominent in the spares/repairs section so are firmly on my radar

Decided to get in and about this over the weekend, as it was suffering from we'ans wear! 








It's come up well for an initial clean, need to re-vaccuum, as a lot of sand has appeared from everywhere after agitation 😂. 
Smells a bit fresher now too. No half chewed sweets either! 

Also took the inspiration to make this... 
https://youtu.be/kCFF5HYWUmk

Also took the inspiration to make this... 
https://youtu.be/kCFF5HYWUmk

Decided to get in and about this over the weekend, as it was suffering from we'ans wear! 








It's come up well for an initial clean, need to re-vaccuum, as a lot of sand has appeared from everywhere after agitation 😂. 
Smells a bit fresher now too. No half chewed sweets either! 

Winner 


Cheers to @Cavcraft excellent service as always 

Don't tempt him 🤣

But have you ever considered shitting yourself on purpose as a tactical ploy?

if you put s-max wings and bumper on you kan join the G-max gang!

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In spurts?

my mondeo is a ghia X... how shall i come when the time comes

Scotscthland achieved. Lovely weather... 

 

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