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[Broadsword]

Absolutely dreadful. I love it! The boot area looks rather open to the weather there.

[HMC]

Lovely! I agree SK it looks perfect just as it is. How many miles?

[DodgyBastard]

Lovely! I agree SK it looks perfect just as it is. How many miles?

170k

 

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[HillmanImp]

That is the kind of car driven in the 1990s by crusty drug dealers with upper middle class parents. He could've had a brand new one courtesy of his grandma but he felt the rust and gaffa tape repairs made him look edgy.

 

I bet you find a 'Spiral Tribe' tape in the stereo.

[DodgyBastard]

Sounds about right. The car is in St Albans and will cost more than the car is worth to bring it here.

 

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[Tepper]

Sounds about right. The car is in St Albans and will cost more than the car is worth to bring it here.

 

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Top quality vehicle sir. I know I've got hardly any posts on here but I could probably assist in getting that vehicle a fair bit closer to you if that's of interest.

 

Edit: just seen no MOT

[HillmanImp]

Sounds about right. The car is in St Albans and will cost more than the car is worth to bring it here.

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Aye, Hertfordshire was a prime location for 'FakeRastaz' in the 90's.

[Andyrew]

Sounds about right. The car is in St Albans and will cost more than the car is worth to bring it here.

 

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Local to st Albans if I can be of any help.

[DodgyBastard]

Delivery of the car has already been arranged but offers of help are appreciated.

Cheers.

 

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[Jim Bell]

That does look very good.

[DodgyBastard]

Mot passed on the skoda!

 

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[Cheezey]

That's good news.

 

I'm still scratching my head about the sugar in the tank of the Mazda.

[drum]

I remember being told by my dad's underkeeper in 1978, that if you want to fuck someone's car up, put a bag of sugar in the tank.

 

Over 40 years later and I've now seen it happen!

[Cheezey]

I just don't get why some one would want to mess up someone's car like that.

[LightBulbFun]

I just don't get why some one would want to mess up someone's car like that.

 

well theres a reason he said "ex" 

[DodgyBastard]

It was a relatively nice day today so spent some time outside trying to improve the Audi 80, first I found a set of wheels that held air then fitted some tyres to them.

 

RJC_6708 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Next we tried figuring out how to put the front end back together.

 

RJC_6711 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_6714 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Ended up having to take the wings back off in order to fit the headlights.

 

RJC_6717 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Still need to screw the bumper on, lower valance and some bits of trim but it's starting to look like a car again.

[DodgyBastard]

Last week my friend brought back the pipe I needed from Hungary to get my w123 running.

 

DSC_0208 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

It turned out that it wasn't quite right so I had to bodge an adapter onto it to make it fit the fuel regulator/accumulator

 

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It turns out that the pipe must be from a similar but slightly different car because when all fitted together the original mounting bracket doesn't really fit onto all of the components. I just bolted it together the best I could and fitted it together.

 

DSC_0214 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

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I put some fuel in the tank and tried starting but it still had the same issue as before where it fired then died two seconds later. On top of that it appeared to be pishing out fuel from what looked like three different locations but might have just been one that was higher up and dripping off the lower points in the system.

 

Fed up with my lack of good results I pushed it back into its space and left it until today. A couple of people had mentioned that it was probably the fuel pump relay at fault so I bridged pins 30 and 87 and right enough the pump primed continuously, I stuck some more fuel in the tank and it fired into life.

 

 

 

It's still leaking fuel but at least I know what the issue was in the first place. I'm kicking myself a little because I'm only in this position because when it broke down I went for the cheapest/easiest fixes first and decided to change the pump and filter but destroyed all of the original rusty hard fuel lines in the process. If I had just bought a relay then It would have been fixed and I wouldn't be having all this bother with it.

[DodgyBastard]

RJC_6724 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Shitey Mercedes has arrived!

 

It's only around 5 days late...

 

I'll need to get a better look at it tomorrow in the daylight but I'm pretty happy with it.

[DodgyBastard]

Here it is in the daylight!

 

RJC_6771 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_6772 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_6745 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Now for the bad bits

 

RJC_6747 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

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RJC_6757 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_6758 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_6759 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

RJC_6760 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Not too bad really, a rear wheel arch, the jacking points, a front inner arch and a rear corner need welding, I think it's less rusty than the white one.

[jonathan_dyane]

Superb albeit slow vehicles

[Cheezey]

I was wondering why you had bought this one as the white one looks far fresher. Is the white one hiding rot?

[DodgyBastard]

I was wondering why you had bought this one as the white one looks far fresher. Is the white one hiding rot?

 

I bought it because Mrs SK wanted another Mercedes and chose this one, the white Mercedes required more welding than I'm anticipating the gold one will.

 

DSC_0079 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Most of the floor on the drivers side needed replaced along with the jacking points and a rear arch. The wings could be doing with being changed but as it wasn't likely to fail an mot on them I've never bothered.

 

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DSC_0118 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Old Mercedes at night by srblythe, on Flickr

[BavarianRetro]

 

Shitey Mercedes has arrived!

 

It's only around 5 days late...

 

 

Get used to that sort of timescale with a 240d.

[DodgyBastard]

Get used to that sort of timescale with a 240d.

 

Bernadette thought that was very funny. Well done!

[DodgyBastard]

I went to the Mercedes dealer yesterday to try and obtain the correct piece of fuel pipe and hose for the white w123. They had them in stock for £105. Bargain!

[sierraman]

That Merc is grim. I agree keep it looking rough.

[DodgyBastard]

Only a couple of patches...

 

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That's the worst of it out of the way but need to wait on a wheel arch repair panel coming to finish off the drivers side. The passenger side has much less rot by the looks of it and should only require a couple of bits at the jacking points.

[DodgyBastard]

I made a little bit more progress on the 240D, I finished the jacking points on the passenger side and welded some new metal into the inner rear arches.

My 110V Angle grinder stopped working recently so when I spotted some locally for sale going cheap I went for a look.

 

DSC_0062 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

I ended up spending £180 on welding equipment and grinders!

 

RJC_6892 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

I got a single phase Nexus nxm 170 mig welder, It works really well and is easy to use.

 

RJC_6894 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

I got a Murex tradesmig 263 3 phase machine with a MASSIVE bottle of argoshield heavy. It is pretty much exactly the same as my old Esab welder but works a lot better, I think the Esab had a hard life welding skips back together.

 

RJC_6893 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

I also got a new arc r1500 110v inverter which can be used for stick and tig, I looked them up and they retail at £1100 new so £50 for it seems like a bit of a bargain. I had a quick go with the stick and it seems to work great.

The guy selling them was a retired engineer and was in the middle of clearing out all of his gear, he chucked in a couple of 110v extensions and some burning gear in for nothing.

I'm probably going to go back and get some more 110v stuff before it's all gone.

 

Since I had some decent gear I thought it best to clear some of the shite out, I thought 7 welding machines might be a little excessive so sold 3 of them as a job lot for £100

 

DSC_0065 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

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While I continued to weld the Mercedes, Mrs SK made some stuff out of scrap metal.

 

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A strange looking dog...

 

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RJC_6902 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

I'm not quite sure what it is, some kind of reptile...

[Supernaut]

I think the Esab had a hard life welding skips back together.

Hey, come on now. Your cars aren't that bad.

[Guest Conan]

 

I know it's not quite the right generation. But close enough.