Jimp: Took me 15 years and three change of ownerships but has MOT

[SambaS]

think so

[explosive-cabbage]

Is he still wanting nill punds for it?

[jonny69]

^ Forgot about this. Probs best if you take it - I'm up to my eyeballs in DIY and my Anglia is still in bits on the drive

[SambaS]

ye, but he was talking of scrapping it so. Time of essence

[explosive-cabbage]

Where is it Edd?

[KruJoe]

Oh aye, what's going on here bruv?

[SambaS]

St Albans

 

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[explosive-cabbage]

Shit, London, innit!

But right next to the M1...

I recon if you set off around 10 pm at night from there, up the M1 with A frame and Jimp, minus lightboard, I recon you could be home for 4am.

What are your thoughts @KruJoe?

I need an excuse to visit London to see some old mates....

I take it it will roll Edd?

[twosmoke300]

I thought single axle car transporter trailers were no longer legal .

Or is it one of those urban myth thingies

[SambaS]

Took some measurements for the windscreen frame today and the roof. She turns over but is out of fuel so will sort that in the coming days.

 

I'm on my way up the scrapyard from some wheel nuts for it. it only came with 2 on each wheel.

 

[SambaS]

Thank you Skizzer!

 

[SambaS]

Needs a bit of tweaking then onto sheet metal 

 

[Cavcraft]

Great stuff, what's left to do now?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Coming up later on the show, we've got a gimp with a limp and a Jimp full of shrimps

[SambaS]

Make frame from sheet metal, rivet on, get some windscreens made and fitted, refit wipers and washer, bit of wiring, weld roof on, bolt seats down, MOT

[SambaS]

But first, holiday, then Monza!

[KruJoe]

Skizzer sent me back to Yorkshire from Wales with a big tin of green paint for this. Also, he mentioned something about clips for the roof, but in the excitement of Shitefest I forget exactly what. 

[SambaS]

Ace, I'll be able to paint the windscreen frame. Don't think I need roof clips, they were probably for the convertible idea the last owner had

[SambaS]

Quitting my job and getting a normal hours job was the best thing I ever did. Evenings are NOT work time. They are fucking fixing the car time.

 

 

Cleaned this up to bare metal and treated and primered and topcoated then seam sealed, over the space of this afternoon.

 

 

 

Shabosh!

 

[Skizzer]

Skizzer sent me back to Yorkshire from Wales with a big tin of green paint for this. Also, he mentioned something about clips for the roof, but in the excitement of Shitefest I forget exactly what. 

  

Don't think I need roof clips, they were probably for the convertible idea the last owner had

Thank God for that, cos I can't remember what I said about roof clips either.

 

This is looking GR23... Very happy to have helped, in an extremely peripheral way

[SambaS]

Ordered the metal for my windscreen frame today, £20 not bad.

 

Called Auto Glass and had a difficult conversation with a southern Asian sounding man from London regarding make and model, and he just couldn't get his head around the two windscreens thing.

 

Phoned round insurers, Adrian Flux £216.80, Lancaster £172.08, Footman James £121.46 so that's arranged for September 23rd.

 

I will take if for MOT without the windscreens if need be. Pass and advise so I'm led to believe.

[Felly Magic]

Don't laugh but try someone like PSV glass if it is just flat glass on the windscreens. 

[spike60]

As already said if the glass if flat the screen  should be no bother, I work on the dock and we get National windscreens in regularly, guy turns up and cuts out freehand from a sheet. I had side windows put in a Merc van a few years back by the same boys, I'm sure one of your local outfits will do a similar service, you want someone who does plant as well as cars.

[michael1703]

I use plant fitters for glass like that

 

When you've got a jcb on site and something clangs the screen they come out with a sheet of flat laminate, scribe around the busted screen or in your case a hardboard template, cut the glass,blow torch the edges and jobsagoodun

 

I've paid £40 for half that size of screen, if you find the right fitter it could be an £80-£120 job

 

Find a local plant hire firm and ask who fixes their digger windows

[SambaS]

Ace thanks

[SambaS]

Autoglass will supply glass and rubber, cut to size on site and fit my screens for £216.

 

Or a company in Halifax £76 cheaper but I have to take the Jimp to them

 

Collected metal today:

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I don't care how much cheaper it was, that is a terrible replacement windscreen. 

[SambaS]

Jimp is gonna need a pair of 10" wheels and tyres for the front as the 12" are catching the inner arch. Strange as these came with the option of either size wheel. And a pair of track rod ends!

 

 

 

Can anyone help? Also I cant remember the MOT legislation for different size wheels

I know they must be the same across an axel, I assume bigger wheels on the driven axel are okay, with smaller on the front. Remembering all the 70s hotrods from times of yore.

 

EDIT:

 

That's the track rod ends sorted potentially by fitting new dust covers, I'll wait and see if he finds any play in them at MOT first

 

http://item.ebay.com/171431428877

[KruJoe]

Edd, I think we have two or three 10 inch Mini wheels here(that's what you need, right?)

Available to you in exchange for a special favour (yet to be determined).

[fordperv]

as long as the axle has matching sizes its fine, yes you can have a different diameter at the rear than the front