Fiesta 89

[red5]

As title, anyone near or in Bromyard able to assist with a recovery of a vehicle.?

Cheers,

Sam

Today, 12 ish

[catsinthewelder]

Possibly

[red5]

Cheers Rich. And Daisy! ?

[chaseracer]

This place... ?

[catsinthewelder]

Made for a nice afternoon out ?
I'll save my pics for after Sam has done the reveal.

 

[red5]

18 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

This place... ?

At the risk of pedantry - these people (Rich).  ?

[Asimo]

It's all go in Herefordshite this afternoon!

[mk2_craig]

There is (or used to be) a bus breakers in Bromyard area... 

[catsinthewelder]

There was some quality shite to see.  I passed a house on the way down with what looked like a proper Fiat 500 and a Volvo 164 on the drive with something else under a tarp.  I saw a few things on the way back, tatty Suzuki X90, tidy pov spec MK3 Fiesta and my load bus yard who I've heard might have ceased trading had an Optare Alero and an LDV Convoy visible.

[red5]

Update with some actual car content, if that's a thing here still. 

[red5]

It's nice here, if a little narrow and steep. More of that later. 

[red5]

Ah. Slight incline. Large trailer. Narrow lane and garden. No problem to a man of my skill, L-R's finest and CitW avec daughters waving.

There we have it. Finest vintage Fester. 

[N Dentressangle]

Don't change a thing

[Cavcraft]

That's absolutely magic.

[djoptix]

Ooh, I'm sure I've seen this on some Barry boy Facebook groups. Interesting

[Jim Bell]

[Dick Longbridge]

Logged as a two litre - would that make it a 2i? 

Essential work right there fella. 

#girlracer

[red5]

2.0 silvertop.

Fiesta turbo box.

Cosworth front brakes. 

Si batwing seats. Or RS/XR. 

Black dash!

 

 

[Dannyk]

That is cool 

also found this in a box of crap, if any use i can post it out after the apocalypse has finished 

[red5]

Haha. Superb.

Cheers.

[mk2_craig]

That black dash came from a slightly later diesel which had succumbed to an engine bay fire. I both removed it and fitted it, nearly twenty years ago!

[red5]

So, possibly some sort of update to follow.

If people like this sort of thing on here now.

[mk2_craig]

Some pics of when this visited Jersey and northern France in 2001, along with the dashboard donor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[red5]

Nice one chap.

There aren't many pictures at the moment for obvious reasons    ...

Suffice to say it's salted away safely at the moment.

[red5]

However......

 

See that delocked boot? That's you that is...

See the boot mounted battery? Ah.

New battery fitted after some 90's twoc related shenanigans.

 

Brakes roughly freed off (gently mind - strip incoming)

New timingbelt and tensioner fitted.

 

Looked at alarm and immob and thought...meh....it'll come off at some point but lets see...

 

 

Fuel pump is seized it appears. feck.

 

Runs on a squirt though   

 

Sam

[Kowalski]

2 hours ago, red5 said:

Nice one chap.

There aren't many pictures at the moment for obvious reasons    ...

Suffice to say it's salted away safely at the moment.

Can't imagine a salted Fiesta lasting too long...

[red5]

So, a bit of an update.

 

Brakes sort of freed off.

Cambelt and tensioner replaced.

Battery replaced.

Random wires checked, reconnected, etc.

 Sub and amp disconnected - head unit kept by po.

 

Old V5 found. 

History / reciepts found, filed.

Show spec sheet found. Handy.

 

Fluids checked - ok. Obviously due a change, but no emulsification or swarf etc.

Fuel tank removed. Ah. 

 

Free advice - store vehicles with a full tank.

Fuel pump seized. Tank surafce rusty. Sender rusty.

 

Obtain spi tank, sender and pump assm. 

Fit. 

 

No key for shonky fuel cap. 

Use previously gained knowledge to effect removal with no panel damage.

Apply fuel. No leaks. 

 

 

 

[red5]

Stand-by, stand-by.

Some stuff with alarms and immobilisers and dmm's.

 

 

[red5]

More wiring stuff checks. No pics. Secret.

But...

 

No apologies for potato/shake-o-vision camera. I normally have proper one but meh.

 

 

[red5]

It was warm, levels check, coolant flowing etc etc before anyone gives it large.

It starts. Runs.

 

Not shown - it moves.

Win.