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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
OK, so update time not much has happened in the paint department, but I have been down to see paul, and things are moving along nicely, but not a lot to show other than sanding and prep work. However, I have decided to tackle the gearbox.

So I started with a full strip-down. As you can see, it is the 084 4 speed gearbox. Knowing what I know now, I would have ordered all the new gaskets, bearings, and seals before starting. At one point, I didn't think I was going to be able to get all the replacement parts, and I'm still after one part, 084-301-192, which is the green collar for the seal... so if you have one or know where I can get one from please let me know. I really appreciate any help you can provide.

Gearbox by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

Gearbox by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

So with the stripdown well underway, I got to this stage and then removed all the seals and bearings from the casings so I could get the vapour blasted. (Video Below)

Gearbox by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

While on the subject of vapour blasting, I must mention Simon from Aqua / Vapour Blasting Bournemouth.
( https://aqua-vapour-blasting-bournemouth.business.site/website/aqua-vapour-blasting-bournemouth/ )

What an amazing gentleman. As you can see from the pictures below, he did an amazing job and very affordable prices, so if you are in the area and looking for vapour blasting, I highly recommend giving him a call.

So here is the BEFORE>>

Gearbox by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

Gearbox by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

and here is the AFTER>>

Gearbox by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

Gearbox by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

Gearbox by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

It was time for some paint; I went with the same colour as the engine only because I had some leftover, so it just made sense to me to use it.

Gearbox by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

Gearbox by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

Gearbox by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

While I wait for the new seals, bearing, etc., I decided to give the internals a good clean up ready for the reassembly.

IMG_6188 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_6189 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_6190 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_6191 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_6192 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_6187 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

So that's where I am currently with the build. When all the new parts arrive, I will do a quick update on the reassembly of the gearbox. Some other things I have done but didn't take pictures of was to replace the heater matrix and apply new foam to the internals of the control flaps inside as they had completely perished and didn't really work anymore.




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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
Epic work! Both cars are great.

A question for your re welding - I've got going on mine but am finding the disposable bottles last no time at all and are pretty expensive at nearly £40 for 3 bottles. What are you using? Have you had any experience with the wire with flux core so you can go gasless?

Cheers


Yeah, same as Eddypeck, I get rent-free bottles, but mine I get from Gas-UK (link below). I would never go gasless for autobody repair due to the amount of clean up.

I have an update on this build coming soon.

https://www.gas-uk.co.uk/rent-free-gas-cylinders/welding-gas#page=1
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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
*** BUILD UPDATE ***

Now I've been a bit quiet on the MK2 build as I have been preoccupied with my son's junior rally car build, a Fiat 126 and is coming along quite nicely (few pictures below if interested). If not Skip, pass them to the MK2 Update...

Fiat 126 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

1c4240be-a128-425d-9bb6-f41eb7496a1f by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

06a31faf-a0bf-4805-b048-a09f78a703a3 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

7ebc1d12-d329-4f5c-a9c6-181e6980aba5 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

9a482387-67d6-4fb4-85ea-1ef13b931338 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

37d0d07a-593c-4ece-b19d-e60f288dcf04 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

7fb4c6a0-d44f-4944-9e67-a9f85cd8f9b0 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

138c5d14-e8ad-4aa5-a215-86ca47277496 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

WhatsApp Video 2021-02-09 at 14.35.22 (2) by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr


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Now that's enough about the Fiat! Back to the MK2!

So the Mk2 has been with the body shop The Forum Bodyworks, Blandford, Dorset. Amazing place and the owner Paul is a great bloke and doing a great job as a car body repair and spray paint specialist if you're in the area and looking for someone he's your man. (https://www.forumbodyworks.com).

Due to the weather and me having nowhere to store the car Paul has had it on the back burning and has been doing a little bit here and there, keeping the shell nice and dry for me. Until now.

So firstly paints in, here it is.

f177fceb-34e9-45e7-ad89-237c99d5bf73 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

What do you think? Personally, I love it, and all credit goes to my daughter as it was her choice. Paul had a quick look over the shell at my welding and did a little panel beating to get things straightened out.

8c7dfaf9-459f-4363-ac26-571b05febf5e by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

35206f46-7278-4f20-b697-aefc744e296e by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

35206f46-7278-4f20-b697-aefc744e296e by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr


Next was a quick wash and blow dry for the body.

Before

7399ad54-f970-4f0b-8054-e33f34c6ec4c by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

After

f9978de4-8062-4c31-81b4-f29f7a4a5339 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

And bake.

52c36e26-7bed-4bbf-b8bf-c3614ff29407 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

Then it was time to see the paint laid down, and there are a few panels that are perfect for a demo as there were ready to go. So the Slam and Lower Front panel got the good treatment.

103f5768-a9d7-4698-981b-134543283aba by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

45cb09d2-7e29-4e36-b4aa-e6f89f883980 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

96f25bb8-019f-404d-bf9e-0266c93bbc44 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

50da4859-372d-47f3-b928-feca80ea84eb by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

The update so far, I love the colour on and can't wait to get it back to rebuild it, let's hope I can remember how it all goes back together!!

Paul intends to get the interior painted by the end of next week. I will keep you all updated.
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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
Looks awesome ! I'm currently doing up my 1.3 and I'm looking at getting some new coilovers, what do you think to the stance coilovers?

As you may be able to see from the pictures I have gone with the stance coilovers on this, they are a good price for a well-built coilover as for the ride I couldn't say, as I haven't used them in that capacity yet, but personally for a middle of the road toward budget they seem pretty good.
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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
Seeing all of this has made me think I should give the underside of mine a go myself. What welder did you use? I've signed up to the mig welding forum and it's always something I wanted to learn.

Hi, thanks for the comment as for welder, I used a Budget Welder (Wolf Mig 140) it's not bad and did the job, but if I were going to do it again I would get a better one something mid-range with a euro torch fitment rather than fixed.

I used 0.6 wire and Argon 5 gas (93% Argon, 5% Carbon Dioxide, 2% Oxygen).

 

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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
So when looking around the car found a hole in the windscreen scuttle that had a poor repair, which was just a load of filler some had smoothed over. So though I would cut it out and weld it up.

IMG_1879 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_2228 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

And finally ready to be collected. Which was at 10 am this morning,  I will keep people updated as I do more bits and bobs.

IMG_9797 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_2879 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
Next was the new coilovers and Brakes on the front.

IMG_5670 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_7787 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

Followed by the rear beam install

IMG_7460 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_2992 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_0488 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_5109 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

That's all the running gear back on so it was time to get it off the rollover jig and back on its wheels

IMG_7201 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_9639 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_3052 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
So I finally got it booked into the body shop for the final bits of filler and a full respray.  So I was time to get it back on its wheels so it could be trailered away. So I started off by putting the steering rack back together and then bolting it all on the car.

I decided to do this with it still on the rollover rig as it was so much easier than with is on axel stands.

IMG_4377 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4374 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_2989 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_8266 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr





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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
Next, I started to reassemble the engine cleaning and painting all the parts before putting them back on. Along with an exhaust wrap for the downpipe.

IMG_6785 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_2626 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_7713 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_3594 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

61213537-CB0C-4DF6-A1FC-7F36286253D9 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

46A7CC25-7FF6-442A-B25A-158C5AEC0372 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr
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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
It was now time to take a look at the engine, I wasn't going to do a full rebuild as I previously mentioned I drove it every day for 2 years without it missing a beat that included monthly trips to Loughborough (300-mile round trips) for work and as a family visiting friends in Darlington (600-mile round trip). I was just going to fit a new head gasket and give everything a good clean and a lick of paint.

5D168086-7D15-4D7C-92A5-08C357F25471 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_6806 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4346 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4354 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

So with the block all painted time to move onto the head and valves.

IMG_4348 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4350 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4351 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4352 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

Got the sump all painted and fitted with a new gasket and a new water pump.

5E647294-7F8E-4C23-B65D-9DBA499492B1 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

Did a quick mock-up of all the part before I torqued down the head.

IMG_4389 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4387 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4388 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr



 
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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
Wow great work and I hope my daughters get into this type of thing (4 & 6 so plenty of time to persuade). An inspiration to me on what can be achieved on your drive.


Thanks, I've been fortunate with the weather until recently, but I had a couple of car covers over it and just prayed for better weather to come again, which it did.

Thanks again for your reply.

Karl
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Members' Cars / Re: Lock Down Rebuild 1984 1.3 CL (daughters first car)
Now, this was done I decided to paint up the steering rack and axels and fit poly bushes all around. I went for The Powerflex Heritage Collection as my daughter didn't want any bright coloured ones so these fitted the bill perfectly.

I also tackled the front and rear hubs with new bearings and brakes and new copper brake lines on the rear beam and under the car.

IMG_7247 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_5695 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4358 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4360 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4365 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4367 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4365 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4368 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_4392 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_5237 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr

IMG_1974 by Karl Bartlett, on Flickr