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Got some time in on sunday, not much but hey at least something...
Finished up the cart for the tig welder. Simple design, spot for the gas bottle, welder it self on top shelf and two additional ones where I can store some consumables and the foot pedal. I was almost ready to put the shelf...
Thanks, most likely I will use some old plugs. If I can find them in my wiring pile.
Self learned and just started doing, thinking after :D But now maybe more thinking before and doing after.
The shop is not only occupied by me, there are other peoples projects as well.
This week there is...
Well hello, almost two months have passed. Freaking hell how time flies. On the 240 front things have been mostly quiet. Suffering from some serious motivation issues regarding that car. Body work is really tedious and time consuming and tinkering for an hour or two on week nights mostly consist...
On the 740 front:
Yesterday had some time to kill, so I changed out the "T" cam for the original "A" cam. As always when doing something thinking that it will go without a hitch, there is something. After putting in the other cam and checking valve lash and then once again taking the belt off...
Parts that I ordered for the 242 arrived. Actually pretty quickly, but if I think of it then they came from Sweden so only a ferry ride away.
Mainly I made the order for the bigger and more expensive parts where from I could get the black friday discount.
New single mass flywheel, Bosch 68mm...
Now on to the 740.
I went to the inspection and surprise surprise, the guys were afraid to let me pass because of the +T and other modifications, so i thought to avoid future headache I would refresh the old carb engine and put it back. So I could just have occasional fun in the snow and on ice...
Hi, long time no see. Haven't really been doing anything on the 242 between the last post and now. But just ordered some parts to start making up the lost time.
I have been busy with other cars non the less.
I'll try to make it in a chronological order but in the end it does not matter. Maybe...
A month has passed already, time does fly by. Now that I have some things situated (moved to a new place + searching for a new job. Which might end happily soon enough) I can start some progress with the 242.
I said previously that I am tired of panel beating, but here I went again. The trunk...
Thanks! I do what I can.
I did do that, for what ever reason I also thought that the earlier style taillights look better. They do not fit the Group A theme but I am not going for a true copy of the group A, hence the 5 cylinder swap and everything else :)
It has been a different week or two...
Lets continue on the 740, almost done.
From last post I finished up the front section of the floor, decided to fabricate 2 big pieces of floor and then weld them together on the table for ease of access.
Then did the firewall part, for most of it I did not take pictures.
Then it...
Well, almost a month has passed and there are no significant updates on the 242 unfortunately. Here and there I have tried repairing the trunk floor piece. Literally piece by piece. There is an easier route, where I could replace the trunk floor with straight sheet metal or buy a bead roller and...
Before the update on the 242 I had a deja vu moment. Couple years back when I discovered that the seat in the 242 was loose happened almost the same but this time with the 740. Had the car on the lift and I pried a little to hard on one repair that somebody had made. The whole freaking floor...
Latest update includes that the passenger frame rail that needed repairing has been cut and welded. Used slightly thicker sheet metal but that's fine. Takes more time to rust eventually.
As the car was sitting on the lift I still thought that it would be a good idea to get the engine and trans...
Time flies by, almost a month since last post. But I was on vacation for a little while and now back to work. Sorta...
Last week I got the hatch on the 740 painted, original paint from the VIN tag but it seems that somebody really has let loose at some point, but doesn't matter. Original paint...
Yesterday we had the national holiday, so day off for mostly everyone, yayy.. What ever, I went to the garage later in the day and decided to tackle one of the last remaining rust spots on the left quarter panel area. It actually was not that hard than I anticipated at first, but I did try to...
I have slowly picked away at it but as with every project there are times where motivation comes and goes. The rear left wheel well is mostly finished, did the last most rear piece. Now I need to grind all the welds down that were left and then see if there are any pinholes. The left side is...
In the rust belt portion of the world it is quite common that cars look like this. So it is no new news to me. Especially as I work with newer cars also at a dealership. Some 10 year old cars look worse than mine. So I just try to make them better, to make them last for the future generations...
During this week I have mostly still dealt with the inner wheel well portion. When I had time I welded it in, currently leaved the outer skin unattached to the inner piece. But welding that together is easy, mostly spot welds.
Yesterday evening I had some spare time so I decided to tackle the...
Going on ahead I started making the driver side inner wheel well piece. My thought was that I will make it in several separate pieces to keep it fairly close to the opening and then welding those pieces together making it into one. Simpler to make than out of one piece. I got relatively far with...
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