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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: gtomo2 on April 01, 2006, 17:17:15
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well still doing my exhurst on me rr and all i can say is stay away from conversions. What a flippen job i am having the front section is a differant size to the mid section which is a differant size to the rear section. and i am working outside so i have been rained on flooded out under the car and now its hailing. and i still have to finish off tighting the bolts up. Oh and my eyes are dirt magnits as every bit of faling dirt has ended up in them :(bloodshot): . Oh and just noticed my water pump is leaking :(mad): . next time i am buying a v8rr that has not been altered in anyway :roll:
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You have my sympathy.
Same sort of weather if not quite the same problems we are having here.
The weather is playing havoc with my plans to work on the camper - getting it ready for Towcester next weekend.
Bob is trying to strip the paint of the bonnet (between showers) then he can fit my new bonnet fan and repaint it tomorrow.
I'm trying to cut wood up to fit the new cooker unit, between showers that is. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Might be sandwiches next weekend.
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You have my sympathy.
Same sort of weather if not quite the same problems we are having here.
The weather is playing havoc with my plans to work on the camper - getting it ready for Towcester next weekend.
Bob is trying to strip the paint of the bonnet (between showers) then he can fit my new bonnet fan and repaint it tomorrow.
I'm trying to cut wood up to fit the new cooker unit, between showers that is. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Might be sandwiches next weekend.
Hi Karen, I might be being stupid here but whats a bonnet fan??
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I just cut a huge hole in the bonnet to mount a 10" fan (patchet?) that I picked up dead cheap off ebay. The bonnet was pretty much scrap as well due to a spare wheel not being correctly fastened down by the previous owner.
I have a cowling/airscoop for it as well.
It will either look dead 'cool' or totaly naff :shock:
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Ah, I see. My money's on dead cool mate 8)
Jeff
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ive had that feeling (still having )where you wish it was just standard and save all the hassel. but it will be worth it in the long run.
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just spent 7 hours swapping 1 door from 90 over to the series 3... not nice.. did the other side in 1 1/2 hours!!!!
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just spent 7 hours swapping 1 door from 90 over to the series 3... not nice.. did the other side in 1 1/2 hours!!!!
7 HOURS :shock: my god man i can change a V8 in 6
what was wrong :o
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Well got it done. not happy with it so will take a day off work to sort it propely and check it over for the mot. And i only managed to get a few cuts but i did hacksaw my thumb. :oops: :roll: . think i will just get some stop leak for the water pump for now as the weather report for here is not good heavy rain and thunder :(mad):
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I just cut a huge hole in the bonnet to mount a 10" fan (patchet?) that I picked up dead cheap off ebay. The bonnet was pretty much scrap as well due to a spare wheel not being correctly fastened down by the previous owner.
I have a cowling/airscoop for it as well.
It will either look dead 'cool' or totaly naff :shock:
You will have to post on here / email me some photos of it when it is done. would LOVE to see the out come of it.
I will save my money on the outcome for now. Also what do you hope to achieve by putting a fan in the bonnet and will it pass an mot with the fan on there? Just thinking about if you hit a padestrian / hiker they fall onto the fan and loose bits of body :D :( :?
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just spent 7 hours swapping 1 door from 90 over to the series 3... not nice.. did the other side in 1 1/2 hours!!!!
7 HOURS :shock: my god man i can change a V8 in 6
what was wrong :o
Everything, bottom hinge bolt had rounded, so tried to drill it out - didnt work
hammer and chisel - didnt work
swearing at it - didnt work, but made me feel better
so in the end i resorted to angle gringer and cold chisel combo...
then when i had removed it from the 90, spent 3/4 of an hour trying to get the bloody thing to shut on the series..ended up cutting a lot of excess rubber from the door seal, and moving hinges all over the place!!
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Fitting door AND seal, not asking for much are you :lol:
Good fun innit :wink:
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just spent 7 hours swapping 1 door from 90 over to the series 3... not nice.. did the other side in 1 1/2 hours!!!!
7 HOURS :shock: my god man i can change a V8 in 6
what was wrong :o
Everything, bottom hinge bolt had rounded, so tried to drill it out - didnt work
hammer and chisel - didnt work
swearing at it - didnt work, but made me feel better
so in the end i resorted to angle gringer and cold chisel combo...
then when i had removed it from the 90, spent 3/4 of an hour trying to get the bloody thing to shut on the series..ended up cutting a lot of excess rubber from the door seal, and moving hinges all over the place!!
You know you love it really :lol:
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You will have to post on here / email me some photos of it when it is done. would LOVE to see the out come of it.
No problem. may take a pic in a bit of the work so far. Just striping the old paint off at the moment
I will save my money on the outcome for now. Also what do you hope to achieve by putting a fan in the bonnet and will it pass an mot with the fan on there? Just thinking about if you hit a padestrian / hiker they fall onto the fan and loose bits of body :D :( :?
The engine (V8 Efi) runs a little too hot when slow moving for the wifes likeing (the temp in the engine bay also gets very hot, screwed one starter motor already). I have order one of X-engs temp switch to run the fan. If the water gets to over about 90 degrees the fan will switch on automaticaly. The cowling will stop fingers n such getting at the fan :P
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If the water pump is leaking then DON'T put anti-freeze in it 'till it's fixed. The lower surface tension (sorry to get technical) will result in a faster leak that then causes fater wear in the metalic seal on the pump-shaft. In effect it will pack up in double-quick time.
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If the water pump is leaking then DON'T put anti-freeze in it 'till it's fixed. The lower surface tension (sorry to get technical) will result in a faster leak that then causes fater wear in the metalic seal on the pump-shaft. In effect it will pack up in double-quick time.
Never knew that. Will just put normal water in til next wekend
thanks