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  1. As someone who has taken out the sump on the Stellar, the radiator on a Focus, and the sump on the BX twice (setting off before it had fully risen) on our track, I am now a little wary! It'll be fine if I can pick a line or straddle the ruts...I think the danger is with familiarity at home causing me to be complacent.
  2. Any chance of photos of the worst bit of the track? That may influence the choice of vehicle!
  3. Not one to rush a job I've made a start on the A pillars. I was right, there was more rust hidden! But I've already bought the A pillars, which I initially thought would be all I needed. However the lower panel has also holed through in places, so will need to find one of those, or make up a repair strip from some angle section. I've cut out the worst of the rot now but am leaving the lower bit until I know what I can replace it with, as that will dictate where I cut. Also need to fix the welder before I can do anything! At least it makes it easier to replace the aerial now!
  4. Where do I sign?! Lovely part of the world, and drier than Wales!
  5. Not quite so great work...what you might not see in the photo is the tow rope! Looks like fuel pump failure as when measuring the voltage it's down at 8-9V (with warm wiring!), and when fed directly from the battery, there's a clunk and a seemingly heavy current draw, but no whining and no pumping. So a 15 mile tow back home Looks like the early (black) fuel pumps are different to the white pumps you can buy nowadays. I've read conflicting information suggesting that they are either a straight swap, or foul the bottom of the earlier tanks and need a spacer to raise them a few mm...
  6. I know I suggested recreating the photo, but this wasn't what I had in mind! (On the way back from a Cars & Coffee meet, on only its second trip out!)
  7. A MIG welding tip can work quite well as a return line restriction, which you could always drill out if too restrictive and fuel is vapourising.
  8. I previously said that the plan was to rebuild the supplied 1.9 axle, that was until a rebuilt one (with receipt) came up on eBay for half what it would have cost to do! This was just the bare axle, so stuff like the caliper mounts were bolted on. Then new bearings (integral with the hubs) and calipers. You can actually buy brand new ones for little more than the price of a rebuild kit, but my experience with cheap calipers is that it's a false economy. Perishing rubber and unplated pistons meant they seized fairly quickly. Hopefully Febi calipers should be a little better, but time will tell. The rearmost brake hose brackets on the donor axle were beyond repair, but new still available. Discs and pads were surprisingly cheap also, so duly fitted. It's now ready for the dampers to be refitted, but I'm just cleaning them up and painting first. They appear in good order and are genuine Peugeot parts - I'm a bit wary of 'uprated' parts which swing the ride/handling compromise away from real-world usage. The original axle now has a new wheel cylinder and the new handbrake cables adjusted, so as soon as it stops chucking it down it can be taken for a drive!
  9. Just really for fun. We don't have to use a car daily for work any more, but I'm sure this will get put to regular use when the weather is nicer.
  10. Thanks, it's kind of satisfying to work on it but can't wait until @Puglet can drive it! Just the rear wheel cylinder on the original axle to sort and maybe a coolant flush to go.
  11. I've had a go at the rear calipers, and unfortunately one is beyond repair. The bleed screw has seemingly been hammered into the body, and after a good while welding things to that and the remains of the flexi, they both came free (yay!) but the threads were non-existent (boo). I drilled out and re-tapped larger, but it turned out the body was cracked The better one of the two is pictured above, and that was savable. I dunked the steel part of the body in Deox C, along with various other brackets. It took several days to remove all the rust! Before a coat of galvanising primer. I've never rebuilt a caliper with integral handbrake mechanism before, so had to make up a tool from an old socket to compress everything to reassemble. The last part was fitting a new piston, which is where things went less well. It was the wrong size, and too small to seal in the bore. Double checking sizes and the 205 uses a 30mm piston, however the 206 uses a 32mm piston which looks to be what we have. I'd already bought another 205 caliper to replace the cracked one, but wouldn't match the one I was repairing. Still, I thought I may as well finish the repair and see if I can sell to recoup the costs of the kit. New piston going in: And the finished job. Surely worth £30 to someone?
  12. That was the year of the Hyundai Stellar! Completely by chance an unplanned, I spotted another on the end of a row when I arrived so parked next to it. Then @RayMK did the same!
  13. Fuel pipes are now replaced, and I've had to replicate the pipe sticking straight up out of the tank, as for some reason it's been modified to clamp to the pipe inside the tank. I plan to fit a right angle coupling at the top however. There's a few bodges I'm finding on this, such as the battery clamp being a thin piece of bent metal, a penny washer and a UNF bolt in an M6 hole. It was so flimsy the battery was flopping about all over the place! Now replaced with the proper clamp. Next was the handbrake cables, should be a nice easy job until I noticed a drip from one of the rear drums. Wait a minute...drums on a 1.9? Well yes, when she bought it the owner pointed out it was originally a 1.6, but they'd been gradually replacing all the bits to turn it into a 1.9. They'd bought the correct rear beam for it, complete with brake calipers although it looked like it'd been sitting at the bottom of the sea. So the plan was always to rebuild that at leisure, and swap it over at the same time as changing the front struts to restore the correct ride height. So with the rear end, I'm just going to to the bare minimum to make it functional, and swap the whole thing over in the summer. I have to admit I sometimes reuse the staked nuts if the the groove falls in a different spot on the nut. But I think this one has been reused one too many times! Especially when I levered it away and it just crumbled off. Both new handbrake cables are now on, and I'm just waiting for a new cylinder...under £10 delivered so not a big problem. While I was there I coated everything with Lanoguard, to keep moisture away. Really impressed with the overall condition, despite the bodges!
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