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UPDATE
Continued from where I left off... the plug cover was almost fully stripped but there were some hard to reach areas. Left it in some more dissolver solution to get accessible areas stripped and then did the final areas by hand. Areas such as lettering, corners, and anywhere else the solution didn't submerge. I attacked those bits with some Nitromors, wire brush and sanding blocks. After witnessing how quick the dissolver was, Nitromors felt like it took absolute ages to do it's work.
After a good 2 hours or so for those small areas and a good going over with medium grit wet and dry I got the spark plug cover to this stage
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I then had a chat with the chap that is going to plate things and I should be meeting up on Thursday some time to get things handed over. I then whet to make sure I had all the bits put aside for plating.
All these will be done
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There are in fact 3-4 more bits that aren't shown but this is pretty much the lot. I've added a few more little bits 'n pieces so no doubt the quote will go up a tad.
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UPDATE
Popped to the chap a bit earlier to discuss things in detail and to hand all the bits to him for plating. A real nice guy who happens to like cars and seems to know his stuff inside out when it comes to plating. When we discussed what needed doing the parts count was bewteen 90-100 for £75-£80. After finding more things that needed to be plated and a few bits that I ordered in the last week the count literally doubled to 200 lol In total including the spark plug cover is £200. Which is a very good price - it is a fiddly task as he'll need to disassemble all the jubilee clips including screw in order to plate them properly. Plus the plug cover being a composite metal it may take a dip in different metals before gold will plate to it right.
The guy showed me his iPhone which he plated too... looked impressive.
Should get the bits next week... cannot wait!
Also fitted the SBD Nylon relief valve to the oil pump... no pics though.
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Not as yet fella... waiting for the plater to get back to me. It's taking longer than usual due to some of the parts being corroded. It don't bother me as it means he is doing a proper job.
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UPDATE
Due to the weather being nice yesterday it got me in the mood to do some stuff. In this case, some painting.
Had a look around the bay and saw the brake pedal blanking cover looking shabby (left side of the bay). I still wonder why they have that cover there on the Nova's. Why would there even be a cut out in the firewall if the brake servo was always going to be on the passenger side. The location of that cover is perfect for a servo to sit there. Was it just a case of no room to have it there or is there another reason I'm unaware of? Odd... but needed taking off and painting anyway
Rubbed it down and gave it a good clean
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Then gave it many coats of enamel black paint for a really durable finish
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As it dried I sorted out some bits for the Cavalier.
I also got these bits in the post this week
Early toothed crank pulley with an intact clip
https://images2.imgbox.com/b5/00/6tSbFZO0_o.jpg
A set of slightly used SBD pump gears (any ideas what the little triangle is on the larger gear?)
https://images2.imgbox.com/3a/98/nmEpBBaB_o.jpg
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A pair of 1/2bspt to 3/8bsp reducers for my oil cooler. Searched high and low for these and managed to find the correct size and only cost a few quid woohoo!
https://images2.imgbox.com/5f/e6/K0zYp5a9_o.jpg
After leaving the blanking plate in the garage overnight, here's how it looked
https://images2.imgbox.com/5a/3a/pI4K8rqQ_o.jpg
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good work.
are you painting the bay/bits in the bay?
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The bay isn't how you seen it. it was painted/cleaned I just haven't had any pics taken of it.
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I think the markings on the large oil pump gear is for fitting direction? Isn't there a circle on the other side or something? Haynes tells you which faces outwards
How do you know they're SBD ones, they don't look any different to me
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Yes there is a dot on the otherside which is the side which faces you but the old gear had a square mark on the underside and these new ones have a triangle. The chap sold me his pump which had SBD internals including relief valve. He had swapped his oil pump for a modded zLET. He is a MIG member for a while so there were no reasons to doubt him. The gears are tighter anyway my gears were boardering worn. He sold me the lot for a very good price so it was worth it.
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