Tales of a new business, trials and endless uphill battles

[Jikovron]

2 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Do you want mine? It's too big for my mill. Smol ones are always £££, so I rashly bought a large one.

Yes I'm very interested!

[somewhatfoolish]

It's a cheapnese one, don't be expecting a Hoffman or a Zeiss. I'll see about a picture after dinner.

[Jikovron]

I finished the sills and also rear chassis rails in the end, seam sealed and painted them

Contaminated discs where solved on this skoda rapid with a thorough degrease and scouring 

The garage had been paid to do this work, not actually done it and failed it on the mot for the front brakes barely working,,, anyhow the end result is that it's solid, has a steering rack on it with no play and the brakes pull it up well

These have been a point of contention, i went through 3 before the morris minor would select gears without dragging/screeching, i ended up searching about for a decent Torrington made bearing , worth taking note as I had the gearbox out 3 times!!!

We were commissioned to make this roof rack for a pod camper 8x4foot with integral mountings for a roof tent we added on mesh to the base and spent ages painting the thing satin black 

The minx went on the ramp and the first job was to cut the knackered roof skin off and tidy up the edges plus paint the inner structure ready for the new skin

then merely a case of cutting the structure out of the new roof and fettling it onto the car along with some rust repairs as needed, i left a small amount of the old roof along the gutter rail as I'll weld it to the new skin as there isn't the room in the gutter for puddle welding it on 

We've got some work on to rectify all this rubbish, its had some sheet roughly welded in and there's plenty of sills and valance work to do ahead 

[5speedracer]

Seeing the lack of brake work on that Skoda shows why plenty of people neglect their car for fear of being ripped off sadly.

[Jikovron]

We've got a rangerover p38 in for rear brakes and air suspension work and a hyundai i10 for bodge remediation, and fuck me sideways this one is a cataclysm !

So that's what I took exception to, that somebody was paid to do work like that,,beyond intolerable , but it didnt end there!

That was fairly obvious and done lazily because the cv was stuck to the driveshaft with a bound up circlip

So I cut it off, mainly because the abs ring fell to bits

Other than that I found the brake caliper carrier was left loose and the gearbox hadn't been filled back up with oil ,,beware everyone I'm seeing shit like this alot.

[2flags]

Some of those bodges I haven't seen since the 70's. When I was at college, we were told of chassis members and sills being filled with concrete!

[tooSavvy]

6 minutes ago, 2flags said:

Some of those bodges I haven't seen since the 70's. When I was at college, we were told of chassis members and sills being filled with concrete!

... though, to be fair, Skoda rally prep did REALLY shove a beam of wood through the sills!!! 🤣

🚙💨

[Jikovron]

Hyundai i10 part 2 , the heater matrix 

So on these the heater matrix could in theory just come out no bother at all by removal of one panel and it slides out,,,NO the fragile as hell pipes snake through the middle of the heaterbox between it and the blower housing which can't be separated as there's screws behind it against the bulkhead

So :

Steering column, dashboard,all the wiring loom and the heater box itself have to come out, and at the last minute we discovered it had a AC connection at the bulkhead FUCK!!!!! All was not lost as it was discovered via the fill valve that it was empty anyway so could be disconnected !

New matrix in and loads of messing about later replenishing missing fasteners and we have a heater and the LH suspension is no long dangerous !

[IronStar]

At this point I’m almost sure that most of the new-ish cars start their way down the production line by mounting heater matrix and aircon directional flaps, then assemble the rest of the car around them. 

[Sheefag]

I've just read the last four pages and I'm left with a burning question...

Have you no fear?!!?

[2flags]

5 hours ago, Jikovron said:

Hyundai i10 part 2 , the heater matrix 

So on these the heater matrix could in theory just come out no bother at all by removal of one panel and it slides out,,,NO the fragile as hell pipes snake through the middle of the heaterbox between it and the blower housing which can't be separated as there's screws behind it against the bulkhead

So :

Steering column, dashboard,all the wiring loom and the heater box itself have to come out, and at the last minute we discovered it had a AC connection at the bulkhead FUCK!!!!! All was not lost as it was discovered via the fill valve that it was empty anyway so could be disconnected !

New matrix in and loads of messing about later replenishing missing fasteners and we have a heater and the LH suspension is no long dangerous !

Yes madam, we have found the annoying rattle. It was the marble that your son pushed into the heater vent! 🤣🤣