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ive stripped the sleave off my gear nob down to this...
and ive got a bit of 8mm stainless rod and welded a nut on the bottom to fit the top of the gear stick. Il be using lock tight on the thread but can anyone recomend a different soloution as i dont want the top half of my gear stick coming off when driving!?
If the 'stub' thats left is easy to remove, i'd take it off, slice it in half, get some steel tubing thats a tight fit, cut to length, tap both halves into the tube a fair way, then seam weld both ends back. It would be strong, and you get to keep the original thread for your gearknob.....
Quickie question; Can you remember the recess dia of your Mazda steering wheel , before you fitted the Fe....i Horn push ? Mine is 54 mm which is bigger than the 50mm quoted on the fewari item. Would this be the reason you needed to modify ?
you got the stickers ok then, i was worried they might have got bent. The ferr@ri horn was too small for the recess on the nardi steering wheel so i had to bond it into the casing of the existing button with stickerflex...
Can't quite make out the thickness of the ply but I found 3mm was easy to work with but not strong enough if you were to push against it - like you might on the centre bit between the seats when getting in and out of the car. I would put extra bracing there.
Well I would use blutac and gaffer tape but I may not be the world best engineer...
Or as Bobby Thompson, a famous north east comedian, once said when his wife challenged him over a snapped carrier bag handle while en route to their Blackpool boarding house for the 'miner's fortnight', "Why I'm nee engineer ya knar!"
i got a bit fed up today with the gear gator so went to the pub instead.
if im not too hungover in the morning il have another go at it.
Does anyone know of anywhere where i can get some 'car carpet' from? i tried Franks factory flooring but they only had 'house' carpet that would seem hard to shape?!
Or as Bobby Thompson, a famous north east comedian, once said when his wife challenged him over a snapped carrier bag handle while en route to their Blackpool boarding house for the 'miner's fortnight', "Why I'm nee engineer ya knar!"
Have you seen the miner's convalescence home in Blackpool where Bobby Thompson and other acts would have played?
It's next door but one to where my in-laws live (they had Hotels in Blackpool until they retired about fifteen years ago) -
Absolutely stunning building, almost a shame it's luxury flats now.
Ive had a search about and came across ebay item number 180586256220 it seems to be the only tan colourd carpet about but works out at £14 per square meter! what should i pay paying roughly as im going to need about 6 square meters amd thats without me 'f€ckin it up'!
Just a few jobs left to be done and it will be going on ebay. Got it booked in to get a headliner put in, re-carpeted and dash leathered. will be droping it off this weekend and picking it up the weekend after.
scottie, thats on my 'to do' list! ....well i mean thats on my friends to do list whos an engineer! im still messing about trying to get a cardboard template made for him to go off.
