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What are the chances of obtaining a front sub-frame, new, preferably, but used or whatever, might have to be considered? :shock: Thomas, I got one a reconditioned / powdercoated one from achse24.de it's like a new frame. Pic is in the cavalier thread here: http://www.vauxhallcavalier.com/forum/view...

The amount of of time and inventiveness to hide a bodge is probably the same or only a bit more time to do it right. I know, my cav is full of them :thumb I always remember a guy in a garage I worked in welding an XR3i rear floor, and rather than strip the carpet out, which on an escort would have t...

Today's job started making more templates up and also deal with thr N/S inner wheelarch bit that had a suspicious small hole. As per the small hole turned into a bottomless pit, well not quite, but you get the anology! As I had fixed the jacking bit here a couple of Years ago, I hoped that I wouldn'...

Hi Sean Thanks, appreciate the comments. I've just dug around in various places and sourced most of them, for this one I got one from Norway, a couple from Germany and Anthony Drosos on facebook. The front slam panel was a difficult one to find on usual places as well as the little light panel stri...

Seen one listed at site below. Is the c20xe same one as x20xev, got to admit knowing practically nothing about these variants of engines, but it does say bosch 0261210030? All the other ones I've seen are out of stock or north of 100 bucks https://www.andersonracingengines.com/block-components/vauxh...

Hi Sean Thanks, appreciate the comments. I've just dug around in various places and sourced most of them, for this one I got one from Norway, a couple from Germany and Anthony Drosos on facebook. The front slam panel was a difficult one to find on usual places as well as the little light panel stri...

Pretty handy site this for trawling part numbers, sometimes it goes offline but usually comes back in a day or two, no 6 for the indicator gasket. I'm not sure if production number is the superseded number of the part number, but you can try both. https://opel.catalogs-parts.com/#{client:1;page:part...

Robsey could you do me a favour, I'm trying to find a replacement master cylinder, the number seems to be 90348213 for ABS and ATE make, could you confim with your TIS? I checked on Delphi online catalog to confirm the number against the delphi part number (LM50056) but if you check on autodoc with ...

Crazy amount of work going into this, I've just started tackling the rear end of mines today, wanted to do it all in one go but seeing all this at the front of yours seems really scary lol Keep going your doing a great job, where do you get your repair panels from ? Hi Sean Thanks, appreciate the c...

Seen this the other day in Asda. Wee polo bread van, it like it had wider wheels on it but were VW wheels. https://andrew-cars.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/General/Volkswagen+polo.jpg While I was trawling through my pics I seen this one I took earlier in the Year, this is pic of a transit wheel, seen ...

Nice pic John, looks good in the flesh there. Pretty common, things like this when you put some miles on a car that has maybe been lying about for a while. The connectors would have furred up and once they start trying to pass current it gives up the ghost. At least you've got the issue fixed quite...

Good job there, at least you shouldn't have too much to mask up. Yeah it becomes a problem when you're painting and the temp starts going down and the humidity goes up, perfect environment for paint not properly drying and absorbing moisure before it gets anywhere near dry. Talking about painting/pr...

Nice pic John, looks good in the flesh there. Pretty common, things like this when you put some miles on a car that has maybe been lying about for a while. The connectors would have furred up and once they start trying to pass current it gives up the ghost. At least you've got the issue fixed quite ...

That does look pretty severe, but just keep chipping away at it and I'm sure you'll get there. I try not and think about it all just pick an area and get on with it, I'm trying to get all the cardboard templates made up for repair panels, the bulkhead bit, there are 2, the chassis leg there are 3, ...

Yikes that looks scarey... You are a brave man... or a crazy geezer. Not sure about the weather letting up for you today. It has been virtually non-stop torrential downpours all day, here in the rainy city. That weld through primer looks like the same stuff we used on James' V6 Cavalier back in the...

You'll be handy for the hospital, if it all goes wrong. I used to bike a lot, when purely for leisure, my ideal run was a hard slog climb into the hills, having to walk/crawl up some bits (like past Skiff Woods), for the outbound, then a snack, drink, a rest with an epic view, before an effortless ...

Some Friday night entertainment! Managed to take advantage of the (sort of) decent weather today, and get another pile of grinding/drilling/grot in my eyes done! First job was to get the side plate thingy that sits on the N/S front chassis leg at the front. Probably most of you don't realise there i...

Hi Thomas There is the cycle track that runs just down from the Royal Alexandra Hospital, which is the old Canal line link to the Kilmacolm section. If I had the means and the money to buy a bike (plus the consideration that I would become one of those 2 wheel menaces that I always curse at :thumb )...

I tend to use a spray oil like 3 in one spray, i think it's more about keeping the drill head cool, it still cuts ok and the drill lasts way longer. Also find if you do slow pulses with plenty pressure it chews the metal away rather that spinning too fast and polishing it.

That spot welding removal should be a knightable job lol, feel your pain. You're doing in the proper way though, takes a bit longer but you get the neatest and most satisying result! Meant to ask do you use any spray oil on the drill when you're removing spot welds?

I thought somehow you'd enjoy it. I intend to scan it properly and stick it online as it'll end up in the skip. Not all the lines were all ever there ever at the same time. I'm interested probably more in the area further west and around Johnstone, which was quite a profusion, with the Glasgow/Ayr ...

Wee update on the work so far. Put in another shift tonight, I was out till about half 6, although I was thinking to go till about 8 I was done in, all that cutting, drilling and wriggling about on your back with ear muffs and safety glasses getting wrapped round your head really takes it out of you...

Thought Andy you might like to see a portion of this map, showing the SW side of Paisley. It's newish, from the nineties I'd guess, but on it someone has added back many of the lost railway lines including those that ran through and round Foxbar, and also ran into the Pressed-Steel side of the Linw...

Wow, it sounds like you had a hard time there. At least the engine and box are out now. Maybe I should not remind you of the inevitable Haynes phrase - "Refitting is a reversal of removal...." For me it was easier to fit than remove. It was one of those jobs that you've done before but wh...

The biggest problem aside from the boredom of continuous sanding is the rheumatism in my hands, can only do it for a short while before the pain sets in. Great bit of progress there on the van, things coming along nicely! I have had a few times where I've been grinding or sanding lying at awkward a...