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Had a bit of spare time, so I have been attempting to turn the Subaru filler into a Rover one....... Firstly weld up the hole on the back for a random valve/breather thing that only later Subarus have and remove the flange that bolts to the body.... Made a slightly crap copy of the flange on the end of the filler that has the retaining bolts, I used the original and pretty disgusting looking gasket to get roughly the right shape Flange created, its scruffy but it will do (and it will tidy up a bit in due course). Trial fit.... Next was trying to trial fit the neck and the flange in place in the car, this resulted in cutting off a slightly bent end from the filler neck and welding in a straighter 4 inch section, so it lines up with the original hose. Kinda works, excuse the blur (frikin camera phone doesn't like focusing on things more than 5 inches away!) but it demonstrates what I am trying to do hopefully! Top end in place and yes the hose clamp will be going and the tabs will be welded in place but for the sake of getting things to line up I need to trial all the individual parts first. Fuel cap on.... Wrongness! Might have to amend that, what should it say in place of Subaru? RohvA! Or maybe Undeaded Petril Ownly.... Thats all for now....
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Not that I can afford to splurge 3.5k on this but link to the add please?!
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A couple of months back one of my more pessimistic colleagues said "with the rate our company is losing money I do wonder if they will just give up and close the doors come the new financial year in April?" Well he was pretty much spot on, its now March and it looks like I have about 40 days to find a new job, oh goody 😬!
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A properly fascinating car, hopefully this You tuber will resurrect it and all its unusual features, including air lockers on the passenger doors, side mounted boat lift and other oddities!
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Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - I am having a Ford Day!
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Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - I am having a Ford Day!
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I did notice your Sigma and was pleased to see it but mistook it for a Galant, doh! I think its sits in the same kind of area of as my Subaru Forester, rare but few people care..... Maybe you should have put the bonnet up, that always seems to draw a crowd regardless of what the car is. -
Faffage continues...... The interior is slowly coming together, gone from this.... To this... Yep I have just pulled everything out, re fitted the boot carpet and sides, bolted the rear split fold seat backs -back in and gone on a massive hoovering/cleaning bash! So actually not got very far but it looks better. Next rear suspension.. Re secure the NS trailing arm..... Yes the big washer is missing, that was just to wind the bush in, I needed to get it so far in before I could then have enough thread to get the nut and washer on. That job done onto the rear anti roll bar issues, I had disconnected it so I could get full droop on the passenger side suspension arm for welding access. On re fitting the track rods, one of the threads picked up and jammed leaving it rattling about... No conventional spannering technique could free the nut, the shaft kept spinning and the little square section on the other side you secure with a spanner started to round off. Time to crack out the welder then! Firstly attempt to weld a sacrificial spanner to the square section..... This went slightly too well fusing the spanner to the shaft of the drop link and the suspension arm.. On the plus side I managed to free the nut off! It just took some serious persuasion to get the drop link free from the spanner and the arm, leaving a chunk of weld blob on the arm.. Fortunately I could get my finger sander in the gap and clean it off... End result. Not too bad and soon the area will look just as scabby as the rest of the suspension! The downside of all this is that the drop link is pretty shagged and its one of those parts you cannot get a straight replacement for. Like the wheel nuts there maybe a work around but in the case of the drop link I cannot find a straight swap. So with that in mind I removed the entire rear anti roll bar and plonked it in the boot. This is a MOT friendly modification, broken ARB is a obviously a fail but no roll bar is no problem. On the subject of hard to find parts, I am still in two minds about selling the car without a fuel filler neck fitted. By a stroke of bad luck I am having fuel leakage issues with my Subaru and have managed to skillfully use what I thought was the original part number to buy the wrong filler neck but it may yet come in use full yet....... The top half of it is a really close match to the Rover part a bit of careful cutting and this might well be the solution... The best part is this wrong part cost me £60, a hand made Rover replacement is nearly 4x the price.... As you may have noticed the Rover pipe has some additional spaghetti, so I chopped it up to try and figure out what the pipe work was doing and if I can replicate it using the additional pipe work attached to the Subaru filler.... It just sort of loops pointlessly? Well that is easy enough to copy. And that is were this post ends, hopefully this all makes sense? Thanks for reading!
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Borrowed from a Modern Toss Cartoon.... "I'm worried about the effects of new technology on my work prospects", "Don't panic, we offered your job to a robot and he didn't want it",
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Is this the Teletubies remake ?
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Was this intentional or did you get lost on the way out of Gaydon?
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Pretty sure you followed my silver Honda Accord out of the event onto the M40! Anyway didn't manage to speak to anyone so here are some bad pictures.... The none event parking spots.. Rather glad I didn't park in the display areas as I would have missed those gems!
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I will be lurking with my better half, not displaying a car as all my projects are very much still projects..... I shall keep an eye out for the respective AS cars and van