What did you do today?

[DodgeRover]

Welcome back John, that's bloody impressive rot, even for a LR

Dunno about that. I have some fairly impressive* photos from a TD5 I was asked to repair. At least Johns has a proper chassis.

Great to see some quality welding and fab btw.

Isn't it these that are basically an angle iron frame with thin plates creating a box rather than the traditional thick metal chassis?

[panhard65]

Finally fixed the fuel gauge on the 25 turbo today. I even managed to stop the leak around the tank unit with the aid of 2 tank unit seals from the Dodge and making a special tool to get it tight. Shame now the rest of the instrument panel has packed up now the gauge works. I also washed it and fitted some genuine front mudflaps. I am just waiting for a guy in France to remove the instrument panel from a turbo he is breaking and post it to me. I had a job cancel for Friday so will get on with the Lancia as it needs a bloody good road test and tune the carbs. I might even drag the hearse back out if the weather is good.

[Warren t claim]

Finally fixed the fuel gauge on the 25 turbo today. I even managed to stop the leak around the tank unit with the aid of 2 tank unit seals from the Dodge and making a special tool to get it tight. Shame now the rest of the instrument panel has packed up now the gauge works. I also washed it and fitted some genuine front mudflaps. I am just waiting for a guy in France to remove the instrument panel from a turbo he is breaking and post it to me. I had a job cancel for Friday so will get on with the Lancia as it needs a bloody good road test and tune the carbs. I might even drag the hearse back out if the weather is good.

Won't the speedo be in KMs?

[panhard65]

Yeap but as it is a LHD anyway it came like that from the factory. Finding a right hand drive MPH one would be really tricky as it is phase one only and there are 2 different types. Hopefully this one from France will be the correct one if he ever gets it out of the car and sends the photo's

[SiC]

I nearly have my full drive back after 5 months. Hopefully those Dolomite chunks are small enough now to fit in the car. Might take a few runs though.
Or call in the local scrap collector and be done with it quicker.

[paulplom]

Volvo S70 changed to fly by wire a year or two into production. On the wired throttle ones You swap the ecu for one with a map on it for about £80. Just drill a couple of security screws and it was plug and play. The wireless ones needed to be mapped with a laptop.

[angrydicky]

I nearly have my full drive back after 5 months. Hopefully those Dolomite chunks are small enough now to fit in the car. Might take a few runs though.
Or call in the local scrap collector and be done with it quicker.

I’d be interested to hear how much you’d get (if anything) for that shell collected.

[SiC]

I nearly have my full drive back after 5 months. Hopefully those Dolomite chunks are small enough now to fit in the car. Might take a few runs though.
Or call in the local scrap collector and be done with it quicker.

I’d be interested to hear how much you’d get (if anything) for that shell collected.

They offered to pick it up for free but I won't get any money for it. Presumably to cover the cost of the fuel and time.

If I drive and weigh it in, I think it was £140 per tonne for mixed metal. So for these remaining bits I reckon I'll get another £10 or £20. Which about covers consumables cost for cutting all the bits out.

Even though I won't get paid for a collection, it does save me time. Which is worth something in its own right.

[PhilA]

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Cleaned up. Can now see the floor again.

Next task is try un-fold the remains of the roof off the other side of the wall.

[SiC]

Cambelt, water pump and coolant done. Pretty much nothing else is needed now. Maybe Haldex fluid change when I get around to it.

Probably nothing else to report except if it (inevitably) blows up some point.