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getting there slowly tek.
was the gear box sold to you being stated as a good one? if so, id take it a welding place and have it tig'd up. depends if you want to take a risk on the internals being fine. you could always have a gearbox specialist strip it down and inspect to make sure all is good before you have the case repaired.
keep it up bo.
Poor luck on the gearbox matey!!
I have seen holes larger than this plugged in work.
They use a piece of copper behind the hole, and fill it with a pool of weld.
A local fab/engineering shop will be able to sort it.
"Keeping it differant and origional FTW"
Yeah pretty much lolQuote:
Originally Posted by dj_wudgey
Yes mate, bit of a jump start on the project but it is gonna slowly get there.Quote:
Originally Posted by brucer
Got it off a user on Mig IIRC he's on here too. Was sold as a 'good'un' with 75k on it. Don't wanna name names as sometimes if this box was bought and sold on then the seller may not have even been aware, so it may be unfair to speculate.
Hard one to call, I got it end of may, but I wasn't around and only recently have been able to inspect it so... you know.
Will have a word with my mechanic to see if he knows any specialists that can have a look for a decent price, would be nice to get it inspected and feel reassured that it's a good'un.
Looking at where it is, repairing it won't cause an issue, so I'll go ahead and get it repaired. Really considering to get it checked though.Quote:
Originally Posted by MattBrown
Tryna keep the Nova different yet subtle. Had a bit of alloy wheel related inspiration yesterday, something just popped into mind. Need to do a photoshop of the wheels I'm thinking about to confirm my imagination :)
UPDATE
(no pics unfortunately :( )
I popped to Sky Insurance today as I was in the area, I thought I'd get a quote and see how much the damage would be when it comes to insuring the Nova as a turbo.
Considering my renewal from Admiral would've been £520 for the 1.2 with mods declared (wheels, backbox, filter, suspension) I was dreading hearing the price.
After all the usual insurance questions I was given a price of £740 all declared with like for like replacement. So I was pretty pleased with that.
Got home and the weather had turned for the better. It was an opportunity to push it out and see what could be done. I spent a while sorting out the wiring for the remote central locking and the drivers side locking motor.
Managed to sort that but the battery was totally dead so I couldn't, so I stuck that on charge.
Had a look underneath and found a can of waxoyl with schutz. Went over some nooks and crannies.
I set my eyes on removing the exhaust. I removed the first rubber mount off the mid section but got stuck on the last one, mind you the Nova wasn't jacked up so I was making it hard for myself :roll:
In the end I left it as the weather was turning and I really didn't wanna risk getting it wet.
I'm really cheesed off with the weather down here, has been total bullcrap. Last 10 days has seen 8 day of rainy weather. That's 8 days of work on the Nova down the drain, literally.
UPDATE
Weather is total rubbish at the moment, so won't be able to do any work today.
Popped to Vauxhall to get a couple bits: Seatbelt bar clip and bonnet stay clip (the bit that the bonnet stay slots into when holding up the bonnet). The seat belt clip was NLS but managed to get the other one.
yea the weather is rather poo was hoping to get out with my sr now im finally home again but no go lol!!! youll get out on her in a few days though!!
Yeah I'm hoping to. Heard this weather will be passing soon. Really do hope so, really wanna get back into doing some work on it.
It's chucking it down where I am at the moment.
getting there fella read all the way through
i actually like the black snowplough on the gold car
Cheers Moffat,
I actually cannot see the Nova going back to grey bumpers now as it'd look much older (although I did like the grey when it was on the car).
Was a bit of a bummer last week, bro's Cav killed it's fuel pump. Took a few days for the parts to arrive and only found the time to get it sorted on the weekend. Typically the weather last week was great but the Cav was stuck infront of the garage so couldn't get the Nova out to work on.
Now that the Cav is up and running the weather has turned total poop!
Oh wells, the waiting game continues...
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