Morning Mike i understand what you are saying , what i should have said was that i used to the adjustment of the two bolts to get the right height for the bonnet and then drilled the holes in the brackets for the bolts , of course as you say i could always elongate the holes (in the brackets) if i decided to readjust the bonnet , thanks Geoff .
Good morning all , as i am currently between IT contracts and with more time to drive the SWB i decided it would be a good idea to sort out why the central locking wasn`t working on the drivers side . BMW in there wisdom use an electrical connector on the central locking unit that is difficult to remove , so i decided i would need to undo the the small bolts that hold the locking unit in place and remove the whole unit from the door , this would allow me to then remove the electrical connector and test it . As it turns out testing wasn`t necessary as there was a 13mm hole in the unit! If i go back a couple of months i made a couple of door cards and drilled a number of 13mm holes in the doors ready to accept the cards , anybody guess what happened! Anyway i just happened to have a spare driver side central locking unit which was fitted and i know have fully working central locking , Geoff .
Good afternoon the interior is at this stage (see photos) , once the door cards were installed the car felt much more complete , Geoff .
Evening all , my car is booked into Nubodi for the bonnet mod on 21st May , thank you Richard , Geoff .
Good evening many moons ago one of my first tasks after my car was built was to install a headlining , before doing so i decided to glue sound deadening to the roof then glue the headlining to that (my theory was the sound deadening would help to dull the noise of sitting in a fibre-glass box) . The glue was the correct sort for headlining , well it is not an easy task as the glue sticks (like s*** ) on contact , all was well and it looked good untill the past couple of weeks where we have had strong sunlight and high temperatures , my car sits outside and with it being a dark colour the interior does get hot . What has happened is the glue between the roof and the sound deadening goes soft and the weight of the sound deadening overcomes the stiction , not good so today it has been pulled off and all things being equal tomorrow a new section of headlining will be stuck back but with no sound deadening , Geoff .
Morning thank you for the replies , the glue i used was the "high temp stuff" but i can only assume the weight of the sound deadening was to much for it . Have been to Martrim in Sandbach this morning and bought more glue "not the spray on type" so will try that , have decided not to use any more sound deadening as the exhaust is now changed!
If anybody is looking for a supplier of the alloy strip that runs along the top of the door have a look at the following
http://www.blackburnsmetals.com/products-aluminium-mouldings-cope.html , many thanks to Bob(Hurnleft) for the info , Geoff .
[Quote] Maybe, but any of these contact glues are dangerous inside a car! Whilst glueing the headlining to my Quantum (no glazing fitted at the time) I was still almost overcome by the fumes and just got out of the garage in time, a confined space and contact adhesive is dodgy. [Quote] .
No garage for me so should be safe enough , although anybody walking past on the pavement may have to look out! Geoff .
Well that`s the headlining done for the second time , if it comes off again it will be staying off , Geoff .
Good afternoon i decided to alter the door cards i had made by adding a pocket and by changing the door handles for something differant (as fitted to a Alfa 105)!
Not there was anything wrong with the old door handles!
Original door card .
New Door card .
The size/length of the pocket was dictated by the amount of leather i had left from the original work , the cost of another half skin to make two longer pockets was not realistic .
The two plastic covers around the door pulls are standard Z3 sprayed up the body colour they are stuck on but i can not decide whether to keep them ,Geoff .
Morning Andy , you really are a flash bugger
Geoff .
Good evening , i decided it was time for a change ref my wheels and tyres , so i bought a set of 15" BMW steel wheels from an old boy! in Norfolk , would guess most people on here will recognize them , what i will say is that if anybody want a load of small holes accurately drilled in steel "Mr Towed" is your man . Bought set of 4 195 65 15 Avon tyres from Blackcircles approx £170 fitted at ATS , slightly larger in circumference and quieter than the P6000`s that were on the Minilites
Thanks Geoff .
Good morning all , many thanks for all the positive comments , Paul as soon as your car hits the road you will find out about answering questions along the lines of is it a ???? and the "double takes" thanks Geoff .
Good evening all , i needed to go to B+Q on Friday last and decided to go in the SWB , jumped in fired it up and instead of idling smoothly at about 1200 when cold , it idled lumpily at 750 when i flicked the accelerator it cut out and would not restart . Did the B+Q run then tried starting again eventually fired up but idled roughly , decided at this point to check the plugs (nu 1) which was black so walked down to the local accessory shop in the village to buy a set (6) of NGK`s finest , £52 after discount , the guy in the shop suggested that the plugs would probably not be the problem but suggested buying a "coil pack" then testing each coil pack in turn till the faulty one was found . This was about 13:30 they ordered one in to arrive before 16:15 , which it did , as the coil pack was off Nu1 i replaced that one turned the engine over and after a few seconds sprung into life (happy days) have been back to the shop to say thank you and have ordered another as a spare . I am pretty sure my first car a 997cc Ford Anglia did not have coil packs and seemed to run OK! thanks Geoff .
Good evening , i haven`t used the SWB for a couple of weeks so i decided one Saturday to give it a run , the battery has been weak for some time so i wasn`t to hopeful , well it would hardly turn over and also threw up an EML on the dash . The following weekend with new battery in hand (well two) that was fitted the engine now turned over as you would imagine but would still not fire . Back in Summer before the trip to Italy a coil pack has failed and the symptoms were the same this time , this time i decided to replace all 6 coilpacks , they were ordered and fitted the following weekend a really easy job . So back into the car ignition on (still with an EML) and engine turned over but would not fire immediately i kept it turning over and eventually it fired up although the exhaust note didn`t sound right , after a couple of minutes running at approx 2500 rpm i tried the idling , it would idle but at 500 rather than 650/700 which it usually did . I decided it was time to go out for a drive , the engine ran but with little power . I called in at the local garage to ask the guys there to connect there tester to the cars engine mgmt system , it showed a number of fault as expected , they reset the system and then reset the EML , there was an immediate change in engine note and the idling changed to 650/700 , the mechanic who i spoke to told me that when a coil pack fails the engine mgmt system cuts the fuel to that cylinder and so my car had been running on 5 until the EML is reset , after another drive to check i can confirm we have 6 working cylinders and the exhaust note is back , if anybody else has a similar problem hope this helps , thanks Geoff .
Good evening all , if you have followed my thread you will be aware that my car was an early build (By Tribute) following Bob`s , at that time it was to early for the front edge of the door/bonnet mod , since then a number of companies/individuals have carried out that mod and that gap/look is much improved , so my question is , is there somebody prepared to quote for the work to be done to my car? in an ideal world it would not be at the other end of the country (i live in Cheshire) but that`s what may happen , please PM me , many thanks Geoff .
Evening all back home safe and sound , a quick message then on to the Peroni , i had decided to buy one of the SWB dashes that Richard at Nubodi has produced so was going to call in on the way north , but on the way there i had some negative financial news and decided now was not the time to buy one .Anyway i carried on to advise Richard that i would no longer be buying a dash , he had one with the instruments fitted (as per the Number 7 car build) to show and it really does look the part , thanks Geoff .
Morning the following picture is the dash that Richard showed me yesterday
Forgot to mention in my post yesterday evening how good the bodywork looks , good enough that the other half is impressed!!!!! Geoff .
Afternoon the price for the gauges is £600 , Geoff .
