project Maestro, please. - MoT Fail

[vulgalour]

Have had a proper look at things, and a look through the spares.  The only thing I was missing to fix all of this was the rear brake hose and I found a pair of those for less than £15 delivered so it seemed silly not to order that.  They do look much more the length they should be too and suspiciously similar to the ones on the Princess.  It might turn out I didn't need to order the rear hoses and could have just used the Princess ones I've got.

Order of repairs will be the handbrake cable first, mainly because that's snapped in such a way that I don't actually have to open the drums to replace that bit of the cable, I just have to replace the bit that joins them to the front of the car which I already have a good one of.

Then I'll probably do the welding on the sills.  If that goes well, I might even do the door bottoms before putting the welder away even though their not an MoT item, it'd just be nice to draw a line under all the welding that's immediately needed.

Front brakes after that.  I found a caliper rebuild kit to do both front calipers that I totally forgot I bought so I'm even covered if it turns out I've got dodgy calipers.  I've got a spare pair of calipers too in case the calipers need spare parts or replacing.  I've even got brake fluid.  I literally have no good excuse not to do this job.

Then it'll be retest I guess.  Emissions I can probably deal with the Italian way and if I can't find anyone to lightly bribe then I'll just thrash the nads off it for a bit before the test.

[grogee]

3 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Have had a proper look at things, and a look through the spares.  The only thing I was missing to fix all of this was the rear brake hose and I found a pair of those for less than £15 delivered so it seemed silly not to order that.  They do look much more the length they should be too and suspiciously similar to the ones on the Princess.  It might turn out I didn't need to order the rear hoses and could have just used the Princess ones I've got.

Order of repairs will be the handbrake cable first, mainly because that's snapped in such a way that I don't actually have to open the drums to replace that bit of the cable, I just have to replace the bit that joins them to the front of the car which I already have a good one of.

Then I'll probably do the welding on the sills.  If that goes well, I might even do the door bottoms before putting the welder away even though their not an MoT item, it'd just be nice to draw a line under all the welding that's immediately needed.

Front brakes after that.  I found a caliper rebuild kit to do both front calipers that I totally forgot I bought so I'm even covered if it turns out I've got dodgy calipers.  I've got a spare pair of calipers too in case the calipers need spare parts or replacing.  I've even got brake fluid.  I literally have no good excuse not to do this job.

Then it'll be retest I guess.  Emissions I can probably deal with the Italian way and if I can't find anyone to lightly bribe then I'll just thrash the nads off it for a bit before the test.

Is it ten days for a retest now? 

Doable but if your forecast is anything like ours it'll be a bit in and out dodging the rain. 

[vulgalour]

10 working days so I timed it about as well as I could for those extra free days.

[Dan302]

I look forward to more fettling videos! (Trying to look on the bright side of the MOT fails)

[Noel Tidybeard]

i think you may have a rover 200 mirror which is why the mounting holes were out cos there aint no way base doors were different

[vulgalour]

It's definitely a Maestro mirror, the 200 mirrors are much curvier.  What I reckon I'm missing is the plastic insert that the driver's side has.

[Noel Tidybeard]

oh, no, no, no the hyacinth bucket rover has same mirror but a different door mounting bracket cos honda doors

[vulgalour]

Ah yes, I should have thought about that.  I'm still pretty sure they're Maestro mirrors, all the casings etc. were identical to the mirror on the car.  As I mentioned in the video, I'm pretty sure it's just the plastic insert that's missing.  It wouldn't surprise me if Maestro and 213 mirrors are actually the same you know, they're such a similar design and it's not like BLARG were going to spend more money if they didn't have to.

[Noel Tidybeard]

iirc they do sit at a slightly different angle on the rover prolly due to the mounting but the main bodies are all the same  EXCEPT the colour coded or alloy backed posh ones have a changed moulding to allow forr clip on caps

the glass for electric mirrors are a different fitting to clip on the motor unit and are normally heated

[High Jetter]

IIRC the mounts are different. Will try to check in Unipart catalogue.

[vulgalour]

Today first item on the MoT fail was almost completed, that being fitting the new handbrake cable.  Rain did stop play just after I'd tidied up for a food break so that was well timed.  Once I've been able to finish connecting and adjusting the cable, I can do the inner sill repair, underseal anything that needs it at the back, and then probably do the outer sill repairs.  Saving the front brakes until last.

[GingerNuttz]

You'd be better just doing a set of outer sills and be done with it.

If the inners are bad just do them too or you'll be patching it every year for mots.

[grogee]

51 minutes ago, GingerNuttz said:

outer sills

NLA. Unless you spend £150 and wait 20 weeks like I did

[vulgalour]

1 hour ago, GingerNuttz said:

You'd be better just doing a set of outer sills and be done with it.

If the inners are bad just do them too or you'll be patching it every year for mots.

If I were keeping it absolutely I'd replace the outer sills (if I could find any).  I'm not, so patches will do just fine.

In good news, I got one thing off the list which is the handbrake cable.  Bit of a faff figuring out how to get enough slack to get everything fitted, but once I did I got a working handbrake again.  Whether or not it's actually balanced is another matter, I can't really do anything about that but I can get the garage to have a look when it goes for the retest.

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That was the hardest/least desirable job of the fail list so I'm glad I got that done today.  The weather is a bit too changable to get the welder out so that can wait until another day.