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Put all the front-end back together on monday, as I want it back on the road for february, hopefully ready for a jov rolling road meet.
Now for some pics of todays progress. A nice shiny new rod-end turned up in the post this morning, so off I popped to B&Q for a couple of M.8 bolts and some steel tube to use as a spacer. The pics explain the job, so here they are,
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Got it fitted up, didn't have to set it in the way described in the haynes because I've done it that many times now that I somehow get it right first time!
Got the old girl fired up and checked for all gears, perfect first time again! The joint has removed about 50% of the play I had, on closer inspection about 80% of whats left is in the pivot pin bushes, so I'm on the hunt for replacements for them now, but it definately feels a lot better than it did.
Total cost of this so far is about ?8, thats including a meter of the spacer tube, I only used about 15mm of it!
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Cool linkage.
you could manufacture & sell them on ebay. Put that metre of tubing to use!
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Just had an idea, maybe I can get some of the tube to sit inside the main pivot tube, then use an M.8 bolt through it to get rid of the rest of the free-play. Think I'll have a look at that tomorrow.
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A nice read... look forward to it being finished.
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Enjoyed reading that Mike, and I agree with Craig, you could make a killing making linkage kits. Id have one!!
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Doing that one joint took about two hours, lol. Would have been quicker with a proper hacksaw, rather than just a blade, and I should have put a thread in the first part so that the rod-end screws in rather than just weld it.
A set of four rod-ends costs about ?20. Then you need a couple of bolts, some plain nuts and some lock-nuts. The tubing I used was just to make it a bit neater than using a couple of nuts as spacers.
The real problem point as most people will know is the central pivot bushes, I have come up with the idea of getting some nylon bar, and machining it to replicate the origionals, but I don't have a lathe and don'tknow how to use one anyway! But if anyone else does, and has some spare time, they might be able to earn a bit of money!
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car looks execelent mate, good job youve done with the front slam pannle etc. what inlet are you useing on the sri head?
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Errr, none? Using 1300 head and inlet, The 1.4 mpi head is waiting until next year, or when the gasket goes, whichever is sooner, lol.
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Nice work Mike, liking the linkage.
Could do with something like that for mine, mines slack as fook. Lol
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Had today off work, and seeing as it was so nice outside, I thought I'd finally tackle the little hole I found last year in the O/S/R inner arch just near the filler pipe. It turned out to be 6 inches long, half an inch high just where the inner arch is spot welded to the chassis leg. Whilst I was cleaning the last two years worth of crap off, found another similar hole near the rear corner http://www.justopelvauxhall.com/foru...s/icon_cry.gif . Surprisingly, the chassis leg itself is good and sound http://www.justopelvauxhall.com/foru...on_biggrin.gif , so I got on with plating the holes up.
what I found after cleaning up,
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after some plate and weld,
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Primed, sealed and under-sealed,
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