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Starting to sound like something I might pass on, it sounds all good but I've also got to think about fuel economy, this being my main runaround. As well as that as Robsey said the maintenance of the engine like coil packs, leaking rockers, timing belt etc. I've already got that cost with the omegas...

I was wondering why the guy was saying I would need the clocks. Never thought it'd be anything other than cable driven speedo, especially at that age of car. The clocks on the face of it (no pun intended) look exactly the same, a mechancial driven clock. If the clocks are totally different then I'd ...

Am I right in saying the speedo is electronic rather than cable driven?

The V6 will need a cooling fan and ducting for the alternator. Unless you fit a Vectra-B V6 alternator as they have an integral cooling fan. Also wouldn't you be needing the traction control too.? On the face of it, it should be more or less plug and play for the engine and loom itself. But there i...

So, just thought I'd throw this thought out there, note I've not committed to it yet but seriously considering it.... a cav V6 is breaking near me and the guy still has the car there with all the bits, engine out & and it's a manual. I was planning putting a better 1.8 in (which I've already got...

Did you get the emissions thing sorted? It's an all too common problem for cavys to fail on that!

UPDATE - The water pipe is too long to go in to my oven. Boo, hiss.... So I have warmed them over the hob top. Gas rings to the rescue. Looking very nice - thick like powder coating, but shiny like paint. Lucky for me, the missus isn't too offended by the smell of paint - both raw and cooked. And t...

Anytime I've been doing painting, I've noticed at the primer stage you see every little imperfection, including the line where the filler ends, even though you can't feel it. Usually find after a couple of more coats and then top coat it disappears. I'm no painting expert but I think when primer hit...

Filling and flattening off bodywork is definitely a black art, I've managed to get an almost perfect finish on a wheelarch I done but you could still clearly see it had been worked on, and this was after hours and hours of sanding (working down the grades) and filling the little holes with that fill...

That is awesome work done there, really enjoyed reading over it and seeing the end result. Sure James will be chuffed

As Andrew said in his WIP thread - the weather appears to have been a bit nicer and drier recently. So a bit of outdoor work on the van. Five big items primed and painted. I wanted to start putting some bits back on the van, but that cannot be done until various parts are cleaned and pampered first...

It's all good :D I can now report I have one nice sharp beam of light pointing just about where I think it should be now, was out last night and the difference having just one new light is amazing, and that was the side with the good reflector. Just shows how much you get used to it in this case ba...

Decided to do a wee bit of fettling on the jalopy today since the weather is a lot drier than of recent. One of the issues I noticed is the drivers side headlight seems to be pointing up to the sky, it was actually the bulb had popped out and that was caused by the plastic clamp thing that holds the...

Hi all, there's a very old thread on here circa 2011 that mentions there is a PDF available of an old Total Vauxhall guide to repairing rear arches. The link doesn't work anymore and the time has come for me to have a stab at doing my arches so does anyone have the pdf? :cry Hi Joner I think that's...

Definitely one of the worst parts of the restoration lying on your back, underseal is awful to get out of your hair or in my case bald patch. Alway seem to end up with a big black sploge of underseal on the back of my arm and you can't see it unless you turn your arm inwards and look at it in a mir...

Plenty of elbow grease going in there from what I can see, and a nice haul of new parts too!

Wish I had half the motivation you have at this time of Year I'm still firmly in hibernation mode!

:wave Hi and welcome to the forum I had to do a bit of a double take when I seen that pic, looks very much like mine, and you're right saloon is a nice shape all round :thumb First really easy job you can do yourself - to stop anymore rust on the arches - is clean out all the mud that accumulates in...

Hello Dawn,

welcome to the forum

Andy

Ford had that rally and race car thing that vauxhall never seemed to have. The facelift sierra was a much nicer car than the cavaier of the same age. The later sierras were a lot better, felt more well put together and less plasticy and had the dohc engines, which were much better than the rattly p...

Always remember going car shopping with my old man, we went to look at a few car lots and there was a sparkling Mk2 cavalier commander saloon, think it was going for 425 or something, only issue was a slightly bald tire, easily rectified of course, but my dad though a rusty old sierra with patched u...

I do hope it isn't like "Easy Start" syndrome. By which I mean that once you have used Liqui-Moly, the car will play-up when you don't use it on a regular basis. It's been doing it well before using liqi-moly. Going to need to rig up the opel scanner again and check the CTS values when it...

I noticed this again the other day, really bogging down when pulling away quickish from lights. Seems to be on warm up, making me think it's the CTS, but then I did check the values of it on the video I recorded when I had it connected to opel scanner and it seemed to fall into suggested ranges. Tha...

The makes complete sense Chris as it's got the connection for the air bag on it as well. I remember those copper track they used to have on the back of steering wheels, they were always filthy, it's a wonder they still worked! Needless to say I now have a bulb gone in the dash, need a new bottom cov...

Anyone got a pair of these they want to sell? Can't seen to find any online now. Had a peek up my loft there, got spares from that expression I stripped a couple of years ago, it was low miles and had a good parcel shelf complete, and it's got the rubber straps as well. Would need to dig it out get...

It is purely a connection between the fixed collumn mounting, and the rotating steering wheel. Hence the coil that tightens and relaxes with the rotation of the wheel. In that case it must be installed right having it locked to the little bullet pin at the top, allowing the wheel to turn the coil i...