Cavalier mk2 - another blue giffermobile.

[theorganist]

It's a lovely colour. Very handsome looking cars and IMHO the face-lift improved them.

[4wheeledstool]

Had a good look underneath earlier, and it's good news! The spring cups on the rear chassis legs have been replaced, and a small patch has been put in the back of the inner sill on both sides. Nothing else requiring attention has been spotted, but the welding looks like it was done with a stick. It's all hammer proof, but I'll most likely tidy up the welds so that they won't be obvious. The rest of the underside appears to be in really good nick - just a few bits of light surface rust.

 

The wobbed up rear valance

 

 

Offside rear corner - arch repair section plonked over the top and wobbed up.

 

 

Nearside rear corner - similar 'repairs" to the offside - but with even more wob.

 

 

The rear half of both outer sills done in the same style as the arches - repair panel tacked over the original one, followed by lashings of wob.

 

[4wheeledstool]

The interior is in fine fettle, sadly the camera flash makes the velour of the seats and door cards look a washed out grey - they're blue in real life!

 

 

Seats are tidy

 

 

 

Sunroof works well, and doesn't appear to leak

 

 

Behold! The mighty donk - its very quiet, doesn't smoke, and apart from a bit of a stutter at about 2000rpm under load, it pulls well.

 

 

The clutch can indeed be changed without removing the gearbox - I took a picture of it, and then subsequently deleted it by accident!

[vulgalour]

Somebody didn't understand how filler works.  It will be interesting to see what you uncover when you poke that.  I don't remember the interior on these being that plush.

[Cavcraft]

I reckon that mileage is right.

[richbraith]

Monaco Blue, best 80s Vauxhall colour.
GLi interior was quite a step up from a GL in the plush stakes.  This is nice, jealousy is bad etc *slaps self*

[Hendry]

Favourite mk2 Cavalier would be a silver LXi hatch on an F reg, although I'd much rather have an early mk3 SRi saloon on a G plate with wheel trims and in grey, think of the one Grant Mitchell had in Eastenders years ago, or else a Cavalier GSi 2000.

[Pillock]

I see Mk2 Cavaliers, and just think The Bill.

 

The top end interiors were plush, my grandparents took me to the Vx dealer for the Mk3 launch, where they had a run out Mk2 GLSi in black. Lovely car, everyone knows more letters on the back is better, but they ordered a Mk3 L instead. The Mk2 was amazing inside

[4wheeledstool]

  On 15/12/2016 at 19:02, dollywobbler said:

Love how ridiculously different the two generation of Cav are.

 

 

Certainly no likeness from this angle! ^^^

 

Spent a bit of time playing with my recently acquired chod this afternoon. The headlights are no longer remaining on whenever the battery is connected. The culprit was the dim dip resistor pack thingy - simply unplugging it solved the problem. If I can find one to replace it, I will do, but it's not a legal requirement anymore and so not really a problem.

The time clock in the fascia didn't work or light up, but a replacement courtesy of eGay was clipped in today too.

The clutch biting point was just off the floor when I got the car, but a cheeky adjustment of the clutch cable and it's a lot nicer to drive now.

Being totally out of practice, I completely forgot to take any pictures of today's fettlery, so here's one of the shed just before locking up for the day.

Still on the hunt for a rear valance and bottom corners.

[Cavcraft]

Hve you tried these fellas?

 

http://www.vauxhallgreenparts.co.uk/CavMK2parts.html

[Fabergé Greggs]

How do you change a clutch without removing the box? I demand enlightenment

[4wheeledstool]

  On 27/12/2016 at 21:37, jackytwoshoes said:

How do you change a clutch without removing the box? I demand enlightenment

I have a pictorial demonstration knocking about somewhere - when I've found it I'll post them up. It's pretty cool*

 

*My idea of cool is not necessarily the same as anyone elses.

[Bren]

Did mine in an hour - a brilliant piece of design.

[4wheeledstool]

I went to start her up at the weekend, and failed! It just cranked over and over without firing. I pulled off the king lead, and the coil end was full of water and green corrosion slop - three of the four plug leads were in the same state at their distributor terminals. This wasn't helping for sure! The rotor arm and dizzy cap looked fine, so the leads were cleaned up and re fitted, and we now had sparks, but it still wouldn't fire up. The plugs were very wet with fuel, pointing to flooded combustion chambers from all the sparkless cranking, so the injectors were unplugged, and it was cranked again. It fired up and ran for a few seconds, then conked out when the excess fuel was gone - after plugging the injectors back in, and cranking again, normal service was resumed. I reckon I'll be buying some new leads at some point!

 

I was given another interior light to try, but it appears to have suffered the same kind of heat damage to the circuit board that the original has. In other news, my under bonnet light now works!

 

 

[Guest Hooli]

Those plug leads sound like the cause of the 2,000rpm stutter too then.

[4wheeledstool]

  On 11/01/2017 at 20:58, Hooli said:

Those plug leads sound like the cause of the 2,000rpm stutter too then.

I hope so!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I still really struggle to get my head around the fact that mk2 Cavs are a 36 year old design. They still look damn good, and yours is no exception.

[wuvvum]

What's the mileage on this beast?  It looks pretty clean, apart from the bits that aren't, if that makes any sense.

[4wheeledstool]

  On 11/01/2017 at 22:28, wuvvum said:

What's the mileage on this beast? It looks pretty clean, apart from the bits that aren't, if that makes any sense.

It's showing 36k - I reckon if it was 136k it would be in a far worse state, particularly the interior. I don't have the MOT history to hand, but I think it's only done 14-5k since 2006.

[Cavcraft]

Back to when the MOT history was checkable online it looks genuine. I believe the mileage is correct as 4ws has implied.

[Bag'O'Spanners]

Lots of wantage from here. Love a Mk2 or 3, Clutches, CV joints and most things so easy to work on. Cavs have so much more class than bonky Vectras.

[4wheeledstool]

Been hunting down bits for this, all repair panels needed apart from the lower rear quarters have been sourced. Dizzy cap and leads are on their way here, the next items on the list are the correct wheel trims. Apparently, these are the ones -

There is one slightly battered one on eBay at the moment, but obviously a full set would be required to geek proof it.

[Cavcraft]

Nice one! If it's ok with you chief I'll send a link to this thread to the previous owner's son, I thi k he'll be chuffed that you've got plans for it.

[4wheeledstool]

  On 26/01/2017 at 17:40, Cavcraft said:

Nice one! If it's ok with you chief I'll send a link to this thread to the previous owner's son, I thi k he'll be chuffed that you've got plans for it.

Not a problem.

[lexi]

 Someone has been applying filler to it with a round mouth shovel. If you are determined to use a shovel for filler...........use the square mouth !

 

Nice project.

[greengartside]

  On 16/12/2016 at 11:31, sierraman said:

He cabbed it as well didn't he? Then sold it Curly. What a twat. He's probably banged Raquel in the back as well while Curly was at Bettabuys. Assuming fanny rat himself Des Barnes wasn't at it.

 

It was Don 'legless' Brennan who had the blue Mk2 Cavalier which he crashed and thus had to have a leg amputated.

[Uncle Jimmy]

This is total Vauxhall porn, need a Mk2 Cav estate in my life. The wobmaster who spunked all that P38 on the bodywork must be David's brother.

[stuboy]

i grew up with mk2 cavalier company cars

[Noel Tidybeard]

  On 12/01/2017 at 16:31, Cavcraft said:

Back to when the MOT history was checkable online

 

still works for me on laptop, but not on mobile

[Essex V6]

I papped it's European cousin in Holland last year