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Dec 21, 2011 16:12:13 GMT
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Great writeup, shame about the outcome of the trip, although i bet that interior looks awesome in black, those seats are really cool. On the positive side of things you also got the price down, instead of being persuaded by mr. polishworkshopguy and his friends that the work was good enough.. The car aslo looks nice on those 5 spokes, shame that they aren't a bit wider
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funkyhunk
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Dec 23, 2011 16:43:41 GMT
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Yep Glad to see that you have it back & can enjoy it until you are ready to undertake further improvements. I'm sure it still looks great from a distance. Looks like it was a good and very memorable trip.. if equally tiring and nerve racking. Yeah, it was really nice to have it back fit for fight. The only nerve racking part of the trip north was the piece from Trondheim and north ~850km's since it was heavy snow but, I'm used to it, living 450km's north of the polar circle The next of improvements on the list is to replace the rear bumper with another item from a car I stripped years ago, fix the leaky exhaust, take off the red Koni shocks and adjust them a little bit softer, fix the locking cylinder on the drivers door, fix the dome light switches on both doors (the painter "lost" them), and fix the heavy steering. I also have a few new poly-bushes for the front ARB I haven't mounted yet, and I have still to install the new stereo head unit I bought in Poland. More on that later Great road trip and a great write-up. A shame the bodywork did not live up to the promises, but it does look pretty good and hopefully you can improve it from that starting point. The bodywork is quite better than it was before I drove the car down to Poland yes, so I have a better base to build on. I just hope I don't find any "surprises" as time goes by Great writeup, shame about the outcome of the trip, although I bet that interior looks awesome in black, those seats are really cool. On the positive side of things you also got the price down, instead of being persuaded by mr. polishworkshopguy and his friends that the work was good enough.. The car aslo looks nice on those 5 spokes, shame that they aren't a bit wider Thanks dude The interiour looks absolutely awesome. I love it! You'll see why later on when I get some good quality pics Mr. polishworkshoptw@t disagreed when I told him what I thought of the job, but I was promised 100% quality, not 60%, and he had to give in the end. I probably should have told him that I'm kind of a pedantic when it comes to my car, but not knowing that isn't any excuse to do a bad job. But I'll probably be able to save the paintjob when the winter lets hold of our part of the world. Oh, and the zender's are 15X7, with ET=30 I think. they should have been 8X16" with a bit more dish, but they'll do for winter wheels with the studded tyres I also plan to get some newer tyres on the zenders, I currently drive around on some boring 5-spokes noname wheels with good tyres, so I'm going to do a switcharoo, so I get the good tyres on the good looking rims But, I was wondering. The self centering on the steering rack doesn't work properly on the Taunus, (it doesn't zero out when I let go of the wheel), and the steering is so heavy that I can't get any feedback from the road. What is the normal way of dealing with such a problem? It's quite heavy to turn the steeringwheel even with the wheels parked on ice. The alignment is fair, and it doesn't wear any of the edges of the front tyres. Any smart way of lubing up the non power assisted rack? Edit: spelling!
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Dec 23, 2011 19:59:14 GMT
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Nice roadtrip! Too bad the polish guy wasnt that good at polishing (hurr hurr hurr ;D) PLEASE tell me that the Opel Blitz lastebil in some of your pics is for sale! I -need- one!
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Dec 23, 2011 21:39:48 GMT
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Nice roadtrip! Too bad the polish guy wasnt that good at polishing (hurr hurr hurr ;D) PLEASE tell me that the Opel Blitz lastebil in some of your pics is for sale! I -need- one! Polish - polish.... I see what you did there The truck is a 4 litre straight six bedford, maybe early sixties. It belongs to my landlords ex I think, i could relay contact info if you are interested
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Dec 23, 2011 22:17:29 GMT
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Bedford, Opel Blitz, Chevy, GMC, they all shared the same basic body on those trucks Mid fifties to early sixties i think Yeah, i`m interested
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Dec 23, 2011 23:17:46 GMT
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But, I was wondering. The self centering on the steering rack doesn't work properly on the Taunus, (it doesn't zero out when I let go of the wheel), and the steering is so heavy that I can't get any feedback from the road. What is the normal way of dealing with such a problem? It's quite heavy to turn the steeringwheel even with the wheels parked on ice. The alignment is fair, and it doesn't wear any of the edges of the front tyres. Any smart way of lubing up the non power assisted rack? Edit: spelling! You could try dialing in a bit more caster, this is easily done. Have you changed the bushings? A bit of camber could also lighten up the steering. There should also be a piece of nylon pressing against the rack with a small spring. IIRC there should be some washer you can remove for lighter steering, you can also add oil through this hole. Hamfisted as I am I lost the spring, the car was very drviveable without it though Mine was quite good after doing all this, but after hitting a pothole way too hard it went very heavy, never found any cause for this, one idea was be the balljoints. Car got sold before i came around changing them though.
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funkyhunk
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Dec 23, 2011 23:47:50 GMT
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Bedford, Opel Blitz, Chevy, GMC, they all shared the same basic body on those trucks Mid fifties to early sixties I think Yeah, i`m interested I'll see what I can do, the guy is kinda special, maybe something like a hoarder, so it may be a tough negotiation to get him to sell it I'll send you his contact details tomorrow You could try dialing in a bit more caster, this is easily done. Have you changed the bushings? A bit of camber could also lighten up the steering. There should also be a piece of nylon pressing against the rack with a small spring. IIRC there should be some washer you can remove for lighter steering, you can also add oil through this hole. Hamfisted as I am I lost the spring, the car was very drviveable without it though Mine was quite good after doing all this, but after hitting a pothole way too hard it went very heavy, never found any cause for this, one idea was be the balljoints. Car got sold before I came around changing them though. The entire front of the car is in polyurethane bushings from powerflex I think, they were orange iirc, all except for the outer ARB-bushings. I have the standard 1982 Taunus/Cortina crossmember with 1.5/2 deg (negative?) camber front suspension which you can see in this photo taken at the track in '07: And in this photo taken last week: I'll have a look at the R&P next week when I do something about the exhaust, maybe get a syringe/needle and inject some oil into the rubber grommets around the top and bottom kingpins and steering joints. I'll also check how it steers with the front wheels in the air, and with the rack disconnected from the column. Most likely it needs some fresh oil and maybe a small shim taken off the input shaft as you suggest
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funkyhunk
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Dec 30, 2011 20:09:09 GMT
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Dec 31, 2011 17:19:36 GMT
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A bit of an improvement from the old interiour:
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Dec 31, 2011 21:35:46 GMT
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shame about the paintwork and bodywork, but the interior does look like a good job
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Jan 16, 2012 21:19:23 GMT
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shame about the paintwork and bodywork, but the interior does look like a good job The interior was a first class job, absolutely awesome. NO errors what so ever I can probably save the paint with a proper t-cut, but it will eventually get a respray some time later. And in other news I got home from my second trip to Poland yesterday :nice: Not much to report though, the trip was pretty much uneventful, altough I got to drive a cool old 67 Volvo on my way down there: I love these wheels, I think I have to get me some for the Taunus Cool speedometer: The goal for the trip was to get my dads merc from the painter, and go home again. But first we had to shop a little bit: This also happened on our way home: It was so cold that the oil pressure indicator started giving false readings, so the oil light flashed up a few times. But we stopped and checked the oil and everything was okay. The automatic transmission also started to shift funny and the turbo wouldn't boost past 0.5 bar (max 1.4 bar normally) I guess the diesel started to go slushy-like because of the low temperature? The merc came out great from the painters, and the interior also, so I have a new painter for the Taunus when that time comes. I may post some pictures of the merc at a later time.
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Jan 16, 2012 22:05:08 GMT
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Yes please post pictures of the Merc
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Jan 17, 2012 17:10:18 GMT
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569252km on the clock......must be a German car!
And, yes that interior is awesome!!
Cheers
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funkyhunk
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Jan 25, 2012 13:36:23 GMT
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Yes please post pictures of the Merc I'll post some pictures when we get the car washed. It's really dirty after the long drive. We've had -15c over here since I got back, and that's really no temperature to be washing the car in 569252km on the clock......must be a German car! And, yes that interior is awesome!! Cheers It must be a Merc yes Although my first car a '86 Fiat Uno 70S ran 485000km's before the engine gave up, so the italians could if they wanted to So, I'm tired of not having a speedometer that wont work because of the transmission I have have an electronic speed sender, and the Taunus have a mechanic speedo. So I went over to speedhut.com and saw stuff I liked. I'm going to need a new speedometer, tach, fuel, oil pressure, temperature, and battery gauges. For the layout I was thinking about look something similar to the MK1 Escort RS gauge cluster. This is how the layout looks like originally: First one is the original MK1 Escort RS: Second one I've taken the liberty to fix a little with mspaint: The first one has that classic Ford RS look, and is cool. The second one is very tidy, and looks symmetric and all that. I will not have the Wood backing though, I'm not sure what would look good as a background color. The gauges will be with white numbers and letters on black backgrounds with chrome trims around the gauges. What do you guys think, do you have any better suggestions to the layout? What do you like best of the ones i pictured?
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Jan 25, 2012 14:14:39 GMT
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wow 356k miles is pretty awesome, especially as the temp was reading -30
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Jan 25, 2012 15:49:47 GMT
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why not take a capri dash?
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funkyhunk
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Jan 25, 2012 17:18:31 GMT
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Thanks Dutchman, but it'll be too much work adapting a Capri dashboard, but maybe if I used only the gauges. Check this out guys: I just made these in paint to get a better understanding what the two layouts would look like: They both look good.
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Jan 25, 2012 18:08:44 GMT
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I think the symmetrical one is probably going to be easier to live with, but the asymmetrical one looks better.
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Jan 25, 2012 18:34:05 GMT
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I prefer the first one with the main dials in the middle
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I'm not sure what to do with the layout yet, so I`ll decide later Not much has happened since last posts. I had it up on a lift to fix some small bits and bobs. I had a thorough lookover after the car visited the Dinitrol-guy, and the underneath looks extremely good And here is a few of the areas I welded. Behind the wheelarch right rear: Rear of the sill: The floor and seat bracket: And the framerail I replaced: I also tried to fix the leaky exhaust, but I didn't have the right parts, so I let that one be for now. Maybe I'll build me a new exhaust system this spring/summer: I took the rear shocks off and adjusted them a little bit softer. The winter roads in northern Norway aren't exactly forgiving to a car set up for trackdays, so to give my kidneys a break I adjusted them to a much more comfortable setting. And also, the roads around my part of the country are largely cr4p, so all help is good help Then I pulled through some new cables to the front speakers, mounted the speakers correctly to the door cards, and fixed the locking cylinder so the left door actually opens with the key from the outside. This had been broken since 2006 I think, it was a quick fix really, I just never got around to it. I also installed the new headunit I bought in Poland. Have a bad fuzzy picture taken in the dark: It's a 1 din player branded Audiomedia with a 4" screen, bluetooth (and bt audiostreaming), usb og sd-card reader, dvd, mp4, dvdr, cdr/vcd, radio, navi (option), AVin, AUXin, digitaltv (option), Ipod-control, And a few more functions. I paid around 140£, Bargain! I was a bit disappointed with the sound quality of the BT-audiostreaming but other than that it worked great! Absolutely recommended And then I mounted the headlights correctly (what mister polish mechanic was unable to do) and adjusted the height of the headlights. I also installed a pair of new Osram Nightbreaker H4 bulbs and the lights are great! I also altered the throttle cable bracket a tad since the throttle cable was too tight and the throttle wouldn't return to 0%. Then I found out that I wasn't getting 100% open throttle (more like 80%), so I investigated a little bit and found that the throttle pedal arm was a bit bent, so I bent it back and now we have full throttle on demand I'm also helping my dad isolate his garage so I needed a roof-rack to carry some building materials, so I installed this rack: Here is the work done to the garage so far: So, that's it for now, have a good weekend everyone!
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