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Nov 12, 2019 19:18:02 GMT
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Converted a wheel balancer (was a deceased balancer) to spin 4x108's while I hit them with the body polisher and various buffing wheels. I use scotchbrite mops in a drill to do the majority of the cleanup work followed by 6 inch polishing wheels on a clarke variable speed polisher then finish by hand with autosol and Etech alloy polish. Turned this into this Toolstream link for various polishing and sanding mops.
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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I'm surprised at the number of part started or half stripped kits. Pleased to see not one Dutton in the collection. The T seems to be running the traditional Jag IRS as well as the V8. Some years worth of collecting wounded cars by the looks of it.
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 29, 2019 19:44:07 GMT
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Cheers fellas. Made a nice change to actually be useful
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 29, 2019 19:40:59 GMT
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Well, the roof went down, the sun shone and the darkside has another member in it's ranks... for the moment. R563ENF MAZDA MX5 Colour - Black Fuel type - Petrol Date registered 31 December 1998 MOT valid until - 28 October 2020 Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories): Nearside Front Service brake binding but not excessively (1.2.1 (f)) Nearside Front Tyre worn close to legal limit/worn on edge On limit (5.2.3 (e)) Oil leak, but not excessive (8.4.1 (a) (i)) Its not perfect by any means, needs paintwork, one small rust repair, drivers side window is temperamental and it lets in a little water but that could just be because it's been standing out in some very heavy rain recently.
Apparently then, there is life in this one yet. I got down in the pit and had a good poke around, chassis / body looks solid underneath, fully undersealed but some time ago. Suspension arms look scabby but not rotten. Might even tax it and put a few more miles on it. It'll be good for winter as the heater is amazing. (just having a heater at all is a bonus.)
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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D day for the prospective donor car. MOT will decide if its got any more life in it.
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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If the hose is laid out straight the cable should pass along it without needing any help. You'll have to be careful as you unroll the cable and straighten it as much as possible as it enters the hose. Once inside the hose there shouldn't be enough room for it to kink enough to get stuck. That internal cable is 5-6mm diameter and soft wall to allow for bends inside properties.
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 28, 2019 21:36:00 GMT
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Don't know if this will be any use or not but... Put a small bead or other round object on the wire before you put it into the garden hose. It doesn't have to be a snug fit, loose is better. If the cable doesn't want to run poke an airline blow gun into the hose and give it a squirt of air. Good for scaring anyone looking down the hose pipe too.
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 28, 2019 21:29:35 GMT
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All the BT local cables are twisted pair and can run up to 5 miles as overhead or underground although ADSL speed will suffer over such a long distance. Trunk cables (between exchanges) have been replaced to the best of my knowledge with fibre so distance is no longer an issue. 5C socket is the split box system designed so the BT engineer can disconnect all 'local' extensions to test for faults. To this day the worst of the faults on the national phone network are caused by water ingress (sounds like eggs frying) or muppet contractors with shovels or diggers... NOT by people adding phones and extensions. Back in the days when phones needed 75Vac to make the bell ring there was a limit to how many phones you could have on a domestic line. Now we're all digitised and cordless the current requirements are a lot lower. The twisted pair can be colour coded two ways. Either blue with a white tracer twisted to white with a blue tracer (blue can be substituted for other colours but i'll come back to that) or just a blue and a white twisted together. All BT approved cable should use the bi-colour wires. Colours should run in the following sequence if possible. Blue / white Orange / white Green / white Brown / white Grey (or slate as we knew it) / white Use the 'colour' on 2, its pair on 5 and any other wire (normally the orange) for 3. Use same wires on t'other end. This is the right tool for terminating wires in a 5C or any other BT box LINKI thought all this had been erased from my memory until I started writing it Make sure the box on the far end is a slave box (no capacitor). LINK and don't forget a matching pattress box if surface mounting. You may suffer a little speed loss on the ADSL side but it shouldn't be too noticeable.
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 28, 2019 20:26:28 GMT
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Phone extensions can be IDC connected straight into the back of the removable panel on modern 2 part master sockets, you don't need a 'plug in'. This means you can order proper telecoms twisted pair from a company like CPC. Internal BT approved cableExternal telecoms cable (non approved AFAIK)There is a massive difference in price and it would be cheaper to run the internal cable through a rigid garden hose if it's going outside. You will need to use the inserts numbered 2 and 5 for the actual phone and 3 for the 'bell wire'. Make sure to use the same colour wires on the slave socket. Thats where my 13 years as a BT engineer runs out as I retired in 2000 before the advent of ADSL etc. I am fairly sure you can use a standard ADSL filter on a slave box, our domestic router is plugged into a slave although the cable run is less than 5 metres. Beware the plastic IDC tools, they can get snagged and leave a little bit of plastic in the groove which will cause the physical connection to be below par.
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Hahaha. Looks like i'll be making another visit then... DIBS called. Messaged you on marketplace too. lol. I've one pair of those in a 13. They maybe K and N Gemini's with the webbing machined off.
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Last Edit: Oct 25, 2019 0:03:35 GMT by Rebuilda
1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 24, 2019 23:58:31 GMT
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Done. I'll sort the boxing out tomorrow (friday) and await your reply
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 24, 2019 18:50:04 GMT
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Hmmm £50 including post? (comes with a free a Payen inlet gasket) I got the blaster box working again so gave it a light clean.
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Last Edit: Oct 24, 2019 18:56:18 GMT by Rebuilda
1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 23, 2019 17:34:56 GMT
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 22, 2019 22:02:14 GMT
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Whilst digging out bits for a fellow member of this fine community one of the lads who works on the pallets up the end of the yard asked if I could lend him the airline to check his tyres. Opened the big shutter and happily ran the airline out. Does his tyres, puts the airline away and thanks me. So I go to shut the big roller shutter. Bit noisier than usual so I turned round to look at the other end only to realise I'm looking higher than I should be. Letting go of the button I step back and oops... It would appear that one of the slats got snagged on the cladding, bent the cladding into the path of the other slats Spent the next hour up the step ladder with a crowbar and a lump hammer straightening it all out. Managed to get it shut eventually but won't be using it again until i've staightened all the bent bits and modified it so it can't happen again. Good job my nearest neighbour is a distance away.
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 22, 2019 21:43:48 GMT
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Definitely needs at least an airline running over it. but looks in reasonable nick.
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 22, 2019 21:42:19 GMT
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 22, 2019 21:40:28 GMT
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 22, 2019 21:38:53 GMT
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 22, 2019 21:33:39 GMT
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Grrr, pictures MASSIVE. 5 mins...
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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Oct 22, 2019 18:23:23 GMT
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Got sidetracked by new shiny toys I'll have a look tonight but the blasting box is currently out of service unless I can fix the hoover, hopefully just a fuse.
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1988 DUTTON LEGERRA MK1 - SPARES DONOR 1989 DUTTON LEGERRA MK2 - CURRENT PROJECT 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 1990 DUTTON LEGERRA ZS MK2 DUTTON PHAETON S2 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - Resting DUTTON PHAETON S4 - PROJECT X DUTTON SIERRA S2 - Resting
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