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Thanks jimi I think that’s the arm I have just gambled on 👍 To be honest, it looks pretty much exactly the same as the DOGA version, and I’m hoping it will work without any faff. Certainly, at £30 delivered it’s worth a punt over the €105 plus carriage and customs charges for one from Waaijenberg. We will have to see. 😃👍
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I have managed to identify the original wiper arm: it's a DOGA 121.0226.GA.04 Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a supplier in the Northern Hemisphere, or anyone in Aus or Nz that has stock, which might explain why they seem hard to track down. Durite do a pantograph arm that looks very similar (0-892-000) that looks near identical and I have managed to find one on ebay for £30, so I have taken a gamble on it either fitting, or being able to modify it to fit. If I can get the motor to work and make the arm fit then great. If not, then I'll look to swapping the motor for a Durite one, and once we're sorted I will get a blade to suit. It has to be a pantograph style setup as the tall, narrow screen means you can't use a conventional single arm as it just wouldn't wipe enough of it.
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1978 Austin maxi 1750HLglenanderson
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These things are totally subjective… … but I don’t like them either.
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You can also get gears off the shelf to give greater (or less) sweep. When I was playing with the wipers on my P4 I upgraded to a 14W two-speed motor instead of the earlier single speed type that parked the blades off the screen in a kind of “dying swan” motion, and that needed a gear with a greater sweep than the original. You can also get spindle/wheelboxes with different size gears in, so you can have one blade sweep a greater arc than the other.
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I reckon, if you pull that apart, you’ll find worn brushes and an absolutely filthy commutator as well as the knackered bearings.
Big improvement though. Nice one. 👍
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The tube will be much stronger and less flexible than the threaded rod too. Good call. 👍
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Looking great.
I too have very little time any more for “tradesmen”. However, the point that doing a job to a high standard is really expensive is valid too, and most people go with the lowest quote. I have been asked many times why I didn’t work for myself, and the truth is that nobody would pay me to work to my own standards; I’d starve. 🤣
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May 30, 2024 21:05:40 GMT
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I did a bit of straightening of the front where the bonnet fits. I suspect that the smaller engined variants have this front bar/loop thingy in one piece. It appears to have been cut to allow the engine’s breather to clear, and as there’s a bung in the cut end (on one side at least) I suspect that it is part of the factory’s changes for the UK models. It does leave the headlights and bonnet a bit wobbly. If we were keeping the car I would probably look at making something up to join them together. A stepped brace would work I think, and I don’t know why it wasn’t done like that anyway… maybe it was a bit of a rush job? Who knows… With all that done, we then fitted the new number plate to the front bumper, and put the bumper itself back on the car. Hopefully I don’t end up having to take it all back off again to sort out the transmission cable issue. 🙄 It’s got its face back! 😃👍 While we were at it we stuck the new rear plate on too.
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May 30, 2024 20:54:38 GMT
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Bit more progress today. Managed to drag the teen out of bed and made an effort to get things moving again. Got the transmission cable hooked up after a bit of a struggle. Access is not great, but the extra length actually made routing it a bit easier. The action is really stiff though with everything tightened up, and I suspect that things got knocked out of line when the engine mount got broken. Hopefully the careful application of a large hammer will solve the issue. We then decided to tidy up the ignition switch that had been just plugged into the loom under the bonnet and left dangling. I had half a mind to pull the column out of the car and see if it could be moved further to the right, but I have decided that’s way too much work, so it made sense to fit the switch properly. Aside from having to de-pin the big terminal plug to get the harness through the holes in both the column and the bulkhead, it was straightforward enough. Minor issues with the pattern switch not latching into place were easy enough to overcome and it does make things look a little less “hotwired” 🤣 As the lad was keen to make some visible progress we then moved on to refitting the undertray, which was straightforward enough too. I got his lordship to tap out the captive nuts first. We also remembered that the horn didn’t work, so we pulled the old one off to test the wiring, which came back ok, but the horn itself was as dead as a doornail. A rummage through the “might come in handy” box turned up a working replacement, so that got fitted. The wiring was not quite long enough to reach the new horn’s terminals properly, so we made up a short extension.
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BiTurbo228's garage buildglenanderson
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May 30, 2024 11:52:47 GMT
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It's amazing what you can pick up cheap/free if you're prepared to wait, and then jump/act quickly.
I would like to do something with my driveway, but it's going to be £40K or more to pay someone else to do it and not only do I have nowhere near that kind of money, even if I did I would prefer to spend it elsewhere. Chances are, despite my best efforts at maintaining the Victorian pile I currently live in, it's going to fall to redevelopment when I sell up, so it would be like throwing the money away - I can think of far more entertaining ways to burn through that kind of cash!
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May 28, 2024 21:45:40 GMT
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I would suggest that anything will be better than the factory method, which would have likely been “throw it together and paint it afterwards, because nobody is going to want it to last more than a few years anyway…”
A decent coat of paint, followed with some cavity wax, and then keeping an eye on it will probably be more than enough.
You could always look at getting the supports galvanised, that’s another option.
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May 28, 2024 13:32:40 GMT
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Very nice. I would like something similar at some point. 👍
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May 27, 2024 18:15:29 GMT
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You can weatherproof the mdf pretty well with a couple of thinned down coats of clear varnish.
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May 27, 2024 17:51:42 GMT
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Best news I’ve heard for a while. Great to hear. 😃👍
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May 25, 2024 18:36:09 GMT
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Tyre pressures mandated by the factory decades ago are often way too low for modern radials.
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May 24, 2024 10:54:14 GMT
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My bench currently looks a bit like the before picture... My bench pretty much always looks like that.
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May 21, 2024 13:18:52 GMT
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I absolutely agree with your approach. Yes, there's a time and place for "that'll do", but there's also a huge amount of personal satisfaction with doing a job that's 100% spot on, that nobody will see until many years later when it's uncovered and the next person in there looks at it and thinks "now that's a nice job".
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Indeed. Variety is the spice of life, as they say too. 😃👍
Your tidying up and detail sorting might well be the difference between the van lasting a good few more years In sympathetic hands, rather than getting worked to death in a few months.
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May 19, 2024 14:40:34 GMT
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Build a bonfire around the stumps once you have cut them down as low as you can.
As someone else who has endured an endoscopy, I understand/sympathise. My experience was pretty much identical, except that it was a beautiful Indian doctor.
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May 17, 2024 20:50:17 GMT
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So glad I’m not the only eejit out there. 👍
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