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OK, tomorrow sees me collect the chassis and other bits that I bought from Phil in Biggar.
I have spent all day clearing out the space I have as you can see (I hope - if the photo displays from Photobucket!) its not ideal but it will do! http://s1092.photobucket.com/albums/i414/johnsammut/marlin%20related/
I can only do this because Patrick and Peterux keep reminding me!
If you right click on your photo in Photo bucket, then select, "copy image location", you can then use that copy to paste here, by selecting the phot icon above (mountains), and paste in here.
Hope that makes sense.??!!
I'm not sure how you change size in Photo bucket though?
Well, today Son in Law, Andy and I left at 6am for an eventful drive to Biggar to collect the bits. Great drive up in about 4.5 hours but the weather closed in on the way back and we were lucky not to get stuck on the A66
I have agreed a price with Terry and have ordered what I think are all the proprietary Marlin parts (widscreen {new type}, all body panels, dsh etc) so no excuse now.
One of my problems is going to be that I am taking over with no prior knowledge. In many ways this is good, I did not have the ballache of stripping the donor for example but in others it is hard. I have boxes of parts to identify and the engine is stripped of accessories which, along with their fasteners will be in some of the boxes!
My first job will be to fully stripo and rebuild the engine then mate it to the gearbox. After that I am thinking mount the diff and engine/gearbox and measure up for propshaft. Finish the suspension (already started) and add wheels. Does this sound logical?
I would get it rolling first. That way you can always move it out the way to create some temporary space if needed. After the engine and box is in you can always take the wheels off again (that's what I did) to give you more space to move arround the car. The Sportster is quite a tight fit in a typical single garage - its actualy wider that the donor BMW!
Actually, i have room to move right round the thing in my garage. In preparation for this I knocked the end wall down into the shed beyond so that I have a workshop area at the end.
I will post better pics soon but currently the chassis is on a set of cradles made by Phil the previous owner which enable it to be moved quite easily.
Am I right that Saab used to run brake/fuel lines inside the passenger compartment rather that outside? .... now theres a thought!
You cant see from the pics so far but there is a power hacksaw and a large drill press hidden by the chassis but they are going soon oh yes and a barrel of beer...thats going too....
I rewired the garage prior to this too so plenty of power and sockets!
"build manual"...hmmm I got a bunch of notes printed on A4 sheets. Actually lots of interesting stuff but very Ford oriented. I see the Marlin Owners Club sell some build notes on a CD?
Mike has been good enough to send me some pages from the Cabrio build manual which looks really professional, typed up with photos and everything! Was there anything like this for the Sportster or is it just the handwritten notes? Also has anyone bought the MOC assembly notes disc?
thanks
I have a typed version of the A4 build manual, but not in softcopy. From memory, it's about 20 pages and there are no pictures but a few drawings. I don't have access to a multipage scanner, but I could make a photocopy and send by Royal Mail if nobody else has a softcopy.
The CDROM has no instructions, it was just a load of pictures.
I don't think you'll find anything on it that isn't on Jason, Patrick, Robin's websites or my Flickr site.
Sorry, no idea what the MOC build manual is. To my knowledge there was no proffesional build manual like the Cabrio one for the sporster.
Maybe NigelB or Morris (Ian) could comment on what they got more recently.
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