Some cars that I own Update Shonky Lancia !!!

[eddyramrod]

We should create a hilarious* series called shite car rescue, where pineappled and barried cars get a new lease of life

Chris Barrie or Robert Llewellyn to present?

[mat_the_cat]

Claire from Salvage Squad...

[DodgyBastard]

This thread has went slightly off topic, I'll get back round to the 340 eventually but have some more Carlton!

 

 

 

 

[DodgyBastard]

Oh dear!

 

 

 

 

The car appears to have lowered itself!

 

Welder out! That's if I can get it home...

[londonm]

All I can remember is it was L... HRX, same colour and spec. Higher mileage than that 10 years ago, so unlikely to be the same car...probably several on similar plates.

 

You should be on Britains got Talent, remembering number plates from ten years ago.

[Split_Pin]

I can remember them from over 30 years ago. I'm queuing now.

 

Scott your car appears to be fighting back and trying to retwat itself! Take it dampers are not available new now?

[overrun]

Oh dear!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The car appears to have lowered itself!

Welder out! That's if I can get it home...

 

Unlucky! Dunno if you know, but you can buy pattern spring platforms.

[KruJoe]

HOLD ON!

(If you're still alive?)

 

Erm... the whole of Skotchland will go up in a mushroom cloud if you attack that strut with a welder. Maybe.

Please be careful, anyway..

[overrun]

HOLD ON!

(If you're still alive?)

 

Erm... the whole of Skotchland will go up in a mushroom cloud if you attack that strut with a welder. Maybe.

Please be careful, anyway..

 

Empty the oil out if you don't wanna totally DIE

[DodgyBastard]

I've ordered a spring cup, I'll maybe leave the welding to someone more professional with better quality equipment... or I'll take it into work.

[DodgyBastard]

Managed to get it transported, I needed another car moved so got that done too...

 

 

And now my Current fleet as it sits...

 

 

[DodgyBastard]

I ordered a new lower spring cup for my strut and set about getting it sorted out. Initially I was just going to remove the strut and have a local garage weld the new cup on but as they were closed I thought I'd give it a bash myself.

 

Strut off

 

 

 

New Cup

 

 

 

Grinder out

 

 

Welder out

 

 

 

 

Got about 2 tacks done and ran out of gas! Shite...

[r.welfare]

Ah, rusty cups. Suffered the same on my 340, solved with a pair of struts from the local scrappy for 50 quid (this was 17 years ago when there were more 340s around). Had it sat for a long time?

[DodgyBastard]

Not as far as I know, the other side looks good. It seems solid enough underneath and much better than my pal's one which was a few years newer...

[PhilA]

Looks like there's not a whole lot of provision for water etc to leave the bottom of the spring pan. Being the offside, it'll not self-clean itself as well as the nearside, probably just filled up with mud, blocked up and remained as a water trap.

 

Other side is likely to be surface rusty but structurally better.

 

 

--Phil

[r.welfare]

I seem to recall the near side went first on mine - no drop but a rubbing noise on corners. The car had sat for a couple of years before I bought it (the archetypal one elderly owner from new, giving up driving due to failing eyesight), hence my question - my theory (like Phil's) was that the cups were full of mud that acted like a rust poultice.

 

Memory has erased whether we swapped the scrapyard struts as-is or fitted new dampers. I do remember, however, buying a set of GLT alloys with near new Pirellis off an MOT failure being broken, and there was never any chance of the rear end unsticking after that.

[DodgyBastard]

It appears I've gone and welded the strut a little too much and now it's pissing oil out... Oops! They were fucked anyway. I've ordered some gas inserts so hopefully that'll sort it out...

 

In other news I've just went and bought this for £100

 

 

 

Just bought this for £100 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

 

DSC_0324 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

 

DSC_0325 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DSC_0327 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

[plasticvandan]

nice! ive been keeping an eye out for a mk2 estate,but finding one that isnt pineappled or rotten is proving harder than i thought

[DodgyBastard]

Strut insert fitted and the car is back on the road. I've missed it...

 

 

 

[greengartside]

Lovely little Ovlov there! 'VG' is a Norwich registration, maybe sold by Holden's or M.R King when new?

 

 

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[DodgyBastard]

It has some Mr King dealer stickers on it!

[seacow]

Lovin the breadvan

[DodgyBastard]

Took the 340 for a tour of the Lake district and visited a couple of car shows and racked up 400 trouble free miles!

 

DSC_0522 by srblythe, on Flickr

[DodgyBastard]

 

[DodgyBastard]

I now haz Volvo 300 series with Volvo engine...

[mat_the_cat]

What did you paint it with?

[vulgalour]

The gold* was good but the brown is more betterer.

[derskine]

Now sell me the 340!

[Noel Tidybeard]

not likey dog poo brown

[DodgyBastard]

Not another fucking Volvo! by srblythe, on Flickr