brownnova
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Great tip! Thank you!
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Plus… this means I can buy something else to enjoy 😂😂
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Herein lies the issue. I think we’re at at least 8 different spots of welding… possibly more. Another key issue, the indoor storage is currently full. So I’d need to hire some, as one of the reasons for getting someone else to do it was because it’s been outside under a cover and I couldn’t bear seeing it deteriorate any further. The inclination is there, heck I can afford a welder and know I a college that offers evening classes… but alas I also work at least 55 hours a week (including working nearly every evening) often more, have two small children under 4, who I want to spend as much time as possible with whilst they still want to! Plus a house which has “character” and requires fettling regularly. So much as I would love to, at this time of life, it seems a bridge too far time wise. And I think this is the key here, I didn’t have the time to complete the bits I could already do with my skills over the past three years… Alas not… that’s the lift at the classic car garage… no lift for me! Temptation remains to squirrel it away in a container or something, and return to it in a couple of years where more time might be available.
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Thanks, good tip. I replaced that as part of the new pump process in case. Indeed, it could be a lot worse, but once you start cutting it only increases. If I could weld I’d just slowly work through it.
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Probably… but I’m just not sure it’s worth it. 2 possible plans: a) sell it on as a project with rust disclosed b) Keep it, put it in storage for now and wait for it to become MoT exempt work through the other jobs and then pay for the welding and/or learn to weld.
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Since the Nova had been away on its hols I hadn’t heard anything. Today I did… And it was a message I was not hoping to receive… Bollocks. The first pic was the bit I knew about, but the rest is quite the surprise as I had thought it was pretty solid. There was a video too which showed that there is a fair few bits in the floor pan and inner sills which would need new metal in. Plus all the work on the other bits which I had planned for. Sadly, don’t think my pockets are deep enough for this one. 😢
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Yes, hadn’t watched any Rustival coverage so hadn’t seen this! Thanks for spotting it!
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I get exactly the same, especially when I see restored Yugos…
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Book that time off now!!!
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Fancied a treat from the petrol station… Realised I now identify as an 84 year old…
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This photo of it was on the Yugo Facebook group this week, so it appears to have been moved on to a home with known Yugo lickers. (Weirdly I posted this on the Wirral car spotting thread a couple of days ago?!)
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My XC90 is in that tax band… makes me wince when I see it!
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Great news!!! Thanks @catsinthewelder
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I’ll holy thread revive this one… because today I saw a Facebook post about the remaining Sanas and so quickly hopped over here to find the reg to add it to the list. Only to find it is already on the list and appears to have been bought by someone to repair… a happy ending maybe!
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FWIW I thought the two parking areas with the two separate entrance times worked a treat. I also felt the two areas offered loads, and they were right next to each other so no problem there! I was slightly skeptical that the stage would intrude onto proceedings by being loud or overbearing, but not at all. It actually added to things in a positive way for some visitors (not that I visited it at all bar the very end) It was genuinely one of the best shows I’ve been to in ages. Like FoTu used to be before.
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My worst one recently was two vans, both towing mini diggers from the same company racing up the dual carriageway trying to overtake one another at 70+ Mental
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Within the fleet, the reliable car for the wife is supposed to be her MG ZS EV… Guess which car broke this weekend! MG can’t look at it for a week, and expected my wife to drive a car with broken steering the 15 miles to the dealership… I think not.
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Bye Nova 👋 See you soon.
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Had a little more time on this today… although it pissed it down the entire time! Fitted the fuel pump and a new coil (Lucas… eeek!) to the Nova and…. Nothing. Still no fuel reaching the carb. I tried of an external tank and still no dice. Walked away for a few minutes to gather my thoughts and wondered if the new pump may need priming. Google said generally no, but I did it anyway and it worked! Ran it off the external first, and then connected it all up and it ran! Not only did it run, but it ran on less choke then ever before which was a big bit of progress. I was soaked through by now, and the radiator started emitting a fair bit of steam, so decided that water clearly wasn’t getting round well enough, so time to switch it off! My aim by this point had been to have got this far plus renewed all the fuel lines, refurbished the steel wheels, put new tyres on to aid moving and ready for MoT, and to solve some of the non working interior elements. Alas my deadline has now been reached, and tomorrow it goes off for a holiday, to get a few bits done. In a way a shame a I was building slow, but purposeful momentum!
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A superb day out! I stopped locally the night before and was glad I did so as not to have a 5am start! Such a great range of cars there… not least TWO Yugo Sanas!!! Crikey, I needed a sit down after those. Thankfully I recovered enough to be able to see… Good to see various folks, disappointed to miss some others! But a strong AS contingent were present! Looking forward to next year already!
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Rustival prep complete… now here and all parked up!
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I’m sure either of them would benefit from a run… Yep, shall be there in the 9000! Need to wash it first…
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Always nice to come home to a delivery from the postman… NOS rear seatbelts as found on eBay to fit! New fuel pump should be here tomorrow with a new coil too.
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Looks like the fuel pump is knackered. Removed the pump and turned it manually, no fuel pumped, so I connected the input end to a jerry can of fuel and replaced the pump on the engine and span it… nothing. Final check, is the line clear of blockages, connect syphon pump to the fuel line and the fuel flows perfectly fine. New fuel pump time. Having made the time (due to a deadline) I’ve enjoyed the fault finding… even if I’ve not solved it and got it running yet! Although… it was properly Baltic working outside today!
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Further Nova bothering was postponed today on arrival of that white stuff…
