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  1. The car only needs a wing and a repair to the bottlid from what I saw to get the body good enough for painting so nothing major.

    5 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

    Aye, I'm quite partial to them myself!

    Next on the list is to replace the gear linkage bushings (got the parts here) and do the gearbox oil at the same time. That will involve the use of a ramp, which I don't have! I know of people with ramps, though. I just need to ask nicely.

    Doing the linkage will make driving it so much nicer. 

     

  2. 17 minutes ago, juular said:

    Sounds like the moon on a stick bargain everyone wants to hear about. Spill the beans!

    It's just one of em little static arc yellow things, 0.8 wire 35amps at 15-15.5V and never blew one hole in that car. 

    That gys is a dog on thin stuff compared to the old 162 or this little thing, soon as you go up to 1.2mm the gys shines but that Static Arc lays down the same welds.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272512400939?hash=item3f73013e2b:g:eskAAOSwRkpiDtX5&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4GALbWMXNg%2FkHURkrIaDX5RSd4v2LLVbKfZcdlrZfbfY%2FffY2xt7Z6K6pzQsoE3MH2eZzOLkRtLSuwn%2BXEUeYwZ5olWqmPaRl7Iig7IghWeZomRm%2B%2B26OkdlkiVQdg5x5P7WGvRpBO7sOgHyzM3Tmg6kOaJ3Cd1n%2FTOb4%2FeQyoXZyEj2Pk0slxRJQlNjjnrfP8%2BjoVmeyypNokanV3l%2BY9lhFOs15F4LaGuNahpRMi4aFXM%2BpO3in8CksOJBOfQnZpEF0BE86wSG6iwo%2Bfte2EPhX40vPAvvjMve3xpoVEHQ|tkp%3ABFBM2KqBmPpg

    I've ran about 15KG of wire and 40L+ of gas and it hasn't missed a beat.

  3. Part 2 

    Roof was a bloody mess with tons of pin holes in it.

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    plan was to replace the whole back of the roof and 2 sides since roof skins couldn't be bought but it turned out the centre of the rear roof was ok so it was just the sides and corners that needed repaired.

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    Shit ton of bodywork to do on the roof still but it'll be in primer by tomorrow afternoon so no rust gets into em welds.

  4. 5 hours ago, Supernaut said:

    I picked the BMW up on Thursday. It's definitely got more metal in it than when it left. That's putting it mildly.

     

    Big thanks to @GingerNuttzfor his reasonably priced metal-based wizardry, and @Lacquer Peel for giving me a lift, plus an interesting adventure. Cruising along the motorway in the pissing rain in his Peugeot Expert, when he turns to me and says "The throttle seems to be sticking".

    I didn't even panic. I even said "In most other cars, I'd be concerned, but in this van, on the motorway...? Eh."

    It seemed the arm on the fuel pump wasn't returning quite correctly, resulting in it sticking at maybe 20% throttle, or so. This meant at every set of traffic lights everybody around us got serenaded by the dulcet tones of an XUD doing about 2 and a half grand (estimate, as it has no tachometer).

    Good fun.

     

     

    This morning I set to having a look at the other things it failed the MOT on:

    - both outer balljoints

    - front left brake binding

    - right hand inner track rod

    I have a kit consisting of both entire wishbones (as the balljoints are pressed into them), with all the bushings etc on them, plus inner and outer track rods, and drop links.

     

    I've managed to free off the front left brake. It had plenty of meat on the pads but the slider pins were dry as a bone. They got drowned in copper grease, and I cleaned up the pad carriers with a flathead screwdriver. The piston looked brand new, and it retracted far more easily than anything else I've worked on. It just seemed the pad carriers were full of crud. A lot of loose material came off with the screwdriver.

    The wishbones... they look fun*. I reminded myself how they go in. The rear is fine, as is the part in the hub. The inner balljoint goes through the subframe and the nut on top is in the engine bay. This was not an issue on the old white 316i as the 4-cylinder engine stopped short of being in the way of them. A long extension worked fine. However, with 2 more cylinders on the front of the engine in there, access looks tight.

     

    I've contacted a Glasgow-based mobile mechanic, but not heard back yet. I did only email him yesterday afternoon though.

    If your mechanic doesn't get back to you're welcome to use my gear to swap em in the garage, air tools and that make them a breeze to do and I'll even do a side 😂

    If I had known you weren't doing them yourself I'd have threw em on for you.

  5. They'd prob have returned the Galaxie when they saw it does a mile to the gallon 😂

    There's still a blow somewhere on that passenger side exaust and it sounded like up the manifold end. I hunted up as far as I could and couldn't feel it, fit some gaskets to the flanges and see if it helps before ripping the manifolds or that off as exhaust paste isn't a great gasket.

  6.  

    1 minute ago, JJ0063 said:

    Thanks! 
     

    I did wonder whether that would be an option but I can’t see how I’d get to solder it..  I only have a run of the mill soldering iron and can’t see how I’d access.. I think I’ll have to just order a set like you’ve linked

    Cheers

    You can remove the female connectors on the board or whatever it connects to, then it exposes the pins but if you haven't done out like that before just buy the pins 

  7. Nah they look different, I reckon those ones will be similar to atx psu ones. 

    Could solder the wire straight to the pin if you can solder well enough,as long as you don't need to take the wire back off.

    just snip that side of the connector off to make space for the newly soldered wire.

  8. 3 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

    Amazing, I knew someone would know the name! I’ll see if I can find something else to rob a cut of the loom if it’s pretty universal, if not I’ll order that. Thanks for the help!

    Stepper motors or that use the same connectors if you happen to have any.

  9. 6 minutes ago, Matty said:

    I did a similar job on an e39 once. Half way through I threw a full on tantrum like I've not had since childhood. Throwing tools across the workshop, shouting and swearing. Took half an hour and 4 cigs to calm down, come back and finish it. Proper ashamed.

    Tldr, shit job to have to do 😆

    I got a bomber in my ear within an hour on the first side then one down the sleeve later that day, next day I got another down the sleeve and one on my neck 😂 I look like I've been shooting up .

    Not even a hard job in the grand scheme of things but it was soul destroying 🤣

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