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by **Noctule** » Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:46 pm

Fitted the other ARB, it arrived this morning, 5 mins to fit.

by **Keef** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 6:22 pm

gotgcoalman wrote:Pics of holes please

My son made a start on the van today and took some pics just for you Mr Coalman

Looks like it needs the usual; step, inner sill, outer sill, inner wing, outer wing and some patching. :roll:

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by **gotgcoalman** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 8:34 pm

Keef wrote:
gotgcoalman wrote:Pics of holes please

My son made a start on the van today and took some pics just for you Mr Coalman
Looks like it needs the usual; step, inner sill, outer sill, inner wing, outer wing and some patching.

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A bit of pudding would sort that

The tyre must have come from where Ned gets his

I've still got the OS arch to do on mine (amongst other bits

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by **gotgcoalman** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:11 pm

Now then.......
Discovered this beauty

What's the most random thing found inside box section?

A piece of glass bottle and a plastic screw on bottle cap. Oh and some flakey brown unidentified stuff

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by **Adam mk1** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:05 pm

Keef wrote:
gotgcoalman wrote:Pics of holes please

My son made a start on the van today and took some pics just for you Mr Coalman
Looks like it needs the usual; step, inner sill, outer sill, inner wing, outer wing and some patching.

20210305_113020.jpg

20210305_113044.jpg

20210305_113020.jpg

If vans could talk it would say thank you for removing my heavy load, can we go for a run now & I can show you how fast I can run

by **gotgcoalman** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:24 pm

Surprised mine hadn't snapped with the corrosion that's crept in since last poking

Why do the holes never appear in the Summer

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by **Noctule** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 12:38 am

gotgcoalman wrote:
Why do the holes never appear in the Summer

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Because in the summer the hole are full...

...of water.

by **cherniy_chack** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:30 pm

gotgcoalman wrote:Now then.......
Discovered this beauty
What's the most random thing found inside box section?

A piece of glass bottle and a plastic screw on bottle cap. Oh and some flakey brown unidentified stuff

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When I opened the boxes on my son's car, I found in them, in addition to dirt, coins for several euros.
Pieces of copper tubing and copper fittings for connecting such tubing.

My old propeller shaft began to vibrate. It turned out that the spline connection has large gaps. I replaced part of the propeller shaft, the gaps became smaller, vibration too.
The speedometer is broken.
The car is 30 years old.

by **cherniy_chack** » Tue Mar 09, 2021 5:36 pm

Today I replaced the front of the propeller shaft with external splines and repaired the speedometer.
A few days ago, I mounted the LED strip in the dashboard with a glue gun and a drop of glue came off and got into the gap between the rotor and the speedometer leash and made it unusable.
I cleaned the rotor and the glue gap and the speedometer is working.

by **Adam mk1** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:26 am

I changed oil & filter had a hell of a game getting filter off, a chain remover type things was crap hammer & chissel job but stil wasn't moving & it started to turn the pipes on ack of filter, in the end had to get a mate hold that back with a screw driver while I hit the filter, took over an hour just to get filter off, tryed bashing a screw driver in filter it was dripping everywhere & tearing

by **Adam mk1** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:28 am

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by **cherniy_chack** » Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:30 pm

This happens often.
At the last oil change, I also could not unscrew the filter, I left the old one.
I had to pierce the filter with a sharp steel rod and unscrew the filter.
A few days ago I wrote about repairing the speedometer and replacing the splined part of the propeller shaft.
Today I rode a little.
The speedometer is working.
I even forgot that my Mk3 has a driveshaft!

by **gotgcoalman** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 5:45 pm

Good to hear from you cheriny_chack

Today I have been making pipes.
Life is much easier with the correct tools

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by **cherniy_chack** » Sat Mar 13, 2021 8:02 pm

Back in the fall, on my MK3 in the forest, a posterior thromotic tube burst.
I had to muffle the exit from the master cylinder and so go home.
Then I gave the car to the painter, where it stood for 8-10 weeks.
In Kiev, there are several workshops on the automotive market where any brake pipes are made to order.
I ordered a tube with M10x1 threaded ends, but I was mistaken - one is like this and the other is M12x1.
When I found out, the car market was closed for quarantine, but they changed the tip and after painting the car, I restored the brake on the rear axle to serviceability.
These are the pipe wrenches I have, and I have more "tricky" pipe wrenches - when I was younger, I was a car mechanic.

by **gotgcoalman** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:03 pm

Today when trying to re install the fuel tank and discovering it was too in wieldly,I was unable the syphon fuel out.

Decided to tip it into container's.
Hmmmmmm this fell out of the filler neck.

Perhaps it's the cause of the slow filling

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