Sold Little Green Dolly - £500

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The beauty of these cars is that most stuff underneath is fairly simple to fabricate - straight sections, 90 degree sections, etc.

 

The TDC do all kinds of repair panels for them including inner and outer sills

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Forgot to add.

 

I was getting a bit blase about the unbolting action happiness as everything has been undoing beautifully.

 

Well it had until one of the captive nuts sheared off for the coolant bottle. Luckily it is easily accessible.

 

Bloody Triumphs, mutter, mutter, grumble, grumble

[the judge]

Sheared captive bolt? 49 and 6 please.

 

 

*looks around at rest of vultures*

[purplebargeken]

Hundred quid a ticket

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Got some small wire brush wheel things via ebay for the dremel type thing I have.

 

I'd forgotten how much fun this is. Grubby bits looking much better in the engine bay now. 

 

I haz happy.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Little Green Dolly.  Medium Brown Dolly -

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C648601

[Ghosty]

^I'd bloody love that. Shame it has Sprint wheels like so many though, the proper steels look infinitely better, especially with the early metal centres instead of the black plastic ones.

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I have been making steady progress with the engine bay. Most of the grot has gone and it is looking a bit more pleasing to the eyeballs I think.

 

Further action hindered by the death of my Dremel type thing. New one order which has a flexible thingy to get in more nooks and crannies, yay.

 

Here you go:

 

 

 

Today:

 

 

 

It really is slow progress and it doesn't look like much has changed I guess but I have decided to purely focus on one bit at a time so as not to get overwhelmed with it. The fuel pump filter housing unscrewed without drama and there was very little debris captured in the gauze which was great news. New hose, filters and clips on Tuesday.

[purplebargeken]

That brown 1850 is very nice. Shame about the Sprint wheels.

[Guest Breadvan72]

IIRC the late 1850s were given Sprint wheels as standard, although on the brown one above the Sprint wheels and chin spoiler are aftermarket add ons, it appears.

[purplebargeken]

Oh, ok. Didn't know that.

 

The early 1850's had a lovely chrome and black centre trim. Was very smart.

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More Dolly faffing today. Fuel hoses all changed, in-line filter fitted and secured. Various fasteners changed for stainless.

 

Front grilles removed and am pleased to report that apart from some surface rust there is feck all corrosion present. A refreshing change to be honest. Crappy rusty screws replaced with stainless so no future hassles indicated. 

 

Cleaned off most of the thick oily gunk from around the sump. 

 

Next couple of days:

 

Unbolt and throw away the shite seats.

 

Try and remove the two knackered sidelight screws then fit new bulbs and gaskets. 

 

Fit the door trim

 

Fit new thermostat and gasket

 

Fit new fan belt

 

Fit new plugs

 

Clean and paint the air filter housing and the battery bracket

 

Bit more cleaning if I can be arsed/physically able

 

Then phone mate and get him to sort out the weldage.

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Oh bollocks.

 

Forgot about changing the rear bumper ends. This will involve draining the fuel tank, unbolting 4 bolts and wiggling the tank out.

 

The unbolt the sodding things and throw as far as possible. 

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Bugger it. I will have a break from the front end of the Dolomite and shall attack the petrol tank and bumpery bits later today instead.

 

Wish me luck

[Ghosty]

IIRC the late 1850s were given Sprint wheels as standard, although on the brown one above the Sprint wheels and chin spoiler are aftermarket add ons, it appears.

 

Chin spoiler is standard on HLs.

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Dolomite pushed out into the light of day and spanner wielding commenced! 

 

Like every other Triumph bumper end cap I have come across, this one had exactly the same seized bolts which resulted in captive nut not being captive in any way shape or form.

 

The other bumper nuts and bolts were as tight as a tight thing and I had not the strength to undo them. 

 

Not to be deterred, I had a few mouthfulls of Barr's finest Bubble Gum fizzy pop and loaded with E numbers I ripped out the petrol tank.

 

It was quite easy seeing as the lazy fucker who did the welding of the recess that the tank sits in hadn't bothered to actually bolt the tank back in. It was just 4 small bolts FFS, not difficult.

 

All I had to do was drain the tank, undo 3 jubilee clips, give the tank a wiggle and out it came.

 

The tank is in good order. The recess is a mix of patch, paper thin original metal and a bit of filler. Luckily the TDC have repair panels for this very bit.

 

The passenger footwell has been patched with a flat piece of sheet steel which is poo. Very, very luckily I already have a footwell panel in the garage that would be perfect. 

 

I did try to remove the seats but for whatever reason, none of the sockets I had were correct, seat sorting now on hold until after the weekend. 

 

I am now knackered and could have quite happily fallen asleep on my thick foam mat located under the arse end of the car.

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Gentle introduction of possible weldage work to my mate. No problem. WIN!

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Today saw the removal of the shite seats. Rears were easy as they were not held in with anything at all. It's just 2 hooks at the top and two small screws at the bottom FFS. The top of the upright was knackered as per usual.

 

The front seats were held in by 3 bolts each as opposed to the normal 4 and they were not very tight (which made my life easier). One side had no spacers between the runner and the floor. 

 

Under the passenger seat someone had cut 6 squares of plaster board to size and shoved them under the dropped seat bottom. That is a first in my book tbh. 

 

The rear wheel arch inners on both sides have been patched reasonably well and seem quite strong. Tidying up will be all that is needed.

 

The rest of the floor was fine apart from the passenger footwell but that was known about. The drivers footwell had a small patch near the tunnel and a bigger section on the actual footwell.itself.

 

Annoyingly the footwell carpets are missing, so I will just cut something to size for now with a view to replacing the lot when all else is done perhaps.

 

The remaining carpet was cleaned and swept out as best as I could.  

 

I started to swap over the wooden dash sections but couldn't be arsed to take out the glove box inner as I was knackered by now and my back was not good. I think the new dash bits are from a 1500SE, so posh upgrade

 

Still, the main bits were sorted and the new seats will go in bit by bit and it should be sorted by Weds.

 

Door panels will be cleaned and vinyl dyed before fitting. 

 

Photos in a few minutes

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Photos!

 

 

You can see the other bolt hole which enables the fitting of other seats from the small saloon range.

 

 

 

 

 

 

New dash bit

 

 

Usual A pillar grot.

 

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Arse, bugger, bollocks, feck. 

 

Due to a misunderstanding on my part, the boot floor section is for the flat bits, not the actual petrol tank well. 

 

This does scupper me slightly. I'll need to have another look and see what options I have re: fabrication.

 

Feck.

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Replacement seats cleaned, rear seats fitted, fronts placed in the car pretending to look fitted. 

 

 

 

The two seats look different colours but they are not, one has been sprayed with protective stuff and the other has not.

 

 

I think the flash may not have helped either. Doh.

[oldcars]

Looks good. I see in one of the photos demon clean, whats it like? On offer in asda so might get some if its good.

[purplebargeken]

Can't fault it at all, well recommended. Get some!

[danthecapriman]

The seats look great, brown vinyl is for life's winners!

[captain_70s]

Are those seats from a 1500fwd?

[purplebargeken]

1500TC but no difference really

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I will bolt the buggers down on Monday and then finish off faffing in the engine bay, new plugs and a bit of cleaning, etc.

 

If it isn't pissing down I will cut off the bits of side bumper and repaint the front grille black 'cos it looks untidy in a mixed silver/black way.

 

Then over to my mate's place for welding assessment I think.

 

Progress is being made.

 

I really want to crack on with the Volvo and the Olds over winter.

[michael1703]

Got any spare car fixing mojo?

 

Good progress

[purplebargeken]

How much do you need mate? What do you need mojo'ing?

 

Cheers fella

[captain_70s]

1500TC but no difference really

Ah, thought I recognised that fancy perforated vinyl compared to my 1300's plebeian seats!