Co-Pang-Yang
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Cracking pictures mate, think I'm gonna have to visit Cheshire sometime. Those lanes look really good fun.
Still can't decide if I wanna paint mine green or black.
Still can't decide if I wanna paint mine green or black.
Mr Noisy
Coming in your ears.
yo mark
tbh mate i was so ****ing busy sorting out what needed doing i didnt have space in my head to think about the exhaust! perhaps a job for the future!
and those lanes were in the lakes actually dude, but yeah it was an awesome weekend.
i vote green, but i am biased!
tbh mate i was so ****ing busy sorting out what needed doing i didnt have space in my head to think about the exhaust! perhaps a job for the future!
and those lanes were in the lakes actually dude, but yeah it was an awesome weekend.
i vote green, but i am biased!
Mr Noisy
Coming in your ears.
Looking good Jason!! I have decided that discos look too cool in army green!
Bobbler, it's actually all brushwork mate!! We started to roller the roof but just ended up with loads of tiny bubbles, so 3 of us hit the whole car with brushes. Including removing arches, light bar, quick rub down etc took about 4 hours.
You can see plenty of brushwork in the paint close up, but tbh it really doesn't matter! Gives lots of character!
I ordered 5ltr of olive drab from the guy who sells the marathon coatings paint on eBay. Arrived ultra quick and cost about 45 quid iirc.
I thinned it 5% with cellulose as instructed, and used about one litre!!! So I have loads left over, doh!
Cheers anyway
Bobbler, it's actually all brushwork mate!! We started to roller the roof but just ended up with loads of tiny bubbles, so 3 of us hit the whole car with brushes. Including removing arches, light bar, quick rub down etc took about 4 hours.
You can see plenty of brushwork in the paint close up, but tbh it really doesn't matter! Gives lots of character!
I ordered 5ltr of olive drab from the guy who sells the marathon coatings paint on eBay. Arrived ultra quick and cost about 45 quid iirc.
I thinned it 5% with cellulose as instructed, and used about one litre!!! So I have loads left over, doh!
Cheers anyway
Co-Pang-Yang
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Its been a couple of weeks. Boot floor might have some rot.
Mr Noisy
Coming in your ears.
it did pass, no advisories!
your right though mate, i noticed my first rust stained dribble down the fresh underseal the inside of the rear wheel arch the other day. obviously managed to find a little hole or gap in a seam ive welded.
you just cant stop the ****er rusting!!!!
your right though mate, i noticed my first rust stained dribble down the fresh underseal the inside of the rear wheel arch the other day. obviously managed to find a little hole or gap in a seam ive welded.
you just cant stop the ****er rusting!!!!
Co-Pang-Yang
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Bloody things are a pain in the arse!
Mines gonna need waxoilling over the summer no question. Won't be anything left next year if I don't!
Mines gonna need waxoilling over the summer no question. Won't be anything left next year if I don't!
Mr Noisy
Coming in your ears.
Just fitted a new tailgate lock spring this afternoon.
4 years and thousands spent on mods, and I never got round to spending 5 quid on a new lock spring! Should have been the very first job I ever did. Putting the key in the lock every time you want to open the door is SO overrated!! And 4 years I put up with it!
Anyway, on that subject. This week I started thinking about the few outstanding things on the car that do not work properly, namely that lock spring and the central locking system.
Lock spring now sorted, and the other day I stripped all the door cards to see what was what. A bit of rearrangement was required to remove the remnants of an alarm system that used to control the locking itself.
I have now ordered 4 new high torque central locking motors (standard torque is not enough for the stiff locks on an old disco) so it will be quite glamourous when my central locking works and my tailgate opens properly aswell!
Thanks for reading folks
4 years and thousands spent on mods, and I never got round to spending 5 quid on a new lock spring! Should have been the very first job I ever did. Putting the key in the lock every time you want to open the door is SO overrated!! And 4 years I put up with it!
Anyway, on that subject. This week I started thinking about the few outstanding things on the car that do not work properly, namely that lock spring and the central locking system.
Lock spring now sorted, and the other day I stripped all the door cards to see what was what. A bit of rearrangement was required to remove the remnants of an alarm system that used to control the locking itself.
I have now ordered 4 new high torque central locking motors (standard torque is not enough for the stiff locks on an old disco) so it will be quite glamourous when my central locking works and my tailgate opens properly aswell!
Thanks for reading folks
Co-Pang-Yang
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Sounds good. How much are the high torque motors and where you getting that for them?
Co-Pang-Yang
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Gotta sort out making a bull bar for mine. Reckon I've smashed 10 indicators since I've had it!
it is mine!
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had a nice a frame on mine stainless and shiney(i like shiney things!!)but a ford focus bent it DOH!! and been to lazy to sort it out.
