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75 Tourer
Aug 14, 2020 12:45:58 GMT
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Post by stirlingmg on Aug 14, 2020 12:45:58 GMT
About 3 years ago I bought a 75 diesel tourer off one of my customers, it had come in for a few repairs & he wasn’t keen to spend on it. It wasn’t a particularly pretty thing but I saw the potential in it. I fettled it up & ran it for a good few months. I found it to drive impeccably and it was fantastic on the fuel, in fact the best one I’ve ever had. Sadly the clutch slave cylinder failed in about the March of 2018. As it was a bit of a scruffy thing I just shoved it in the corner of the yard until I could make a decision on it. Well after 2 1/2 years I made a decision to rescue it. Time hasn’t been kind to it as the slightly blistery sills have escalated to full blown holes
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Post by stirlingmg on Aug 14, 2020 12:49:39 GMT
Fortunately in most cases the sills only disintegrate around the jacking points & the rot doesn’t usually affect the rest of the sill. There’s a nice man in Nottingham who knocks up these excellent repair panels in his shed
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75 Tourer
Aug 14, 2020 12:54:23 GMT
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Post by stirlingmg on Aug 14, 2020 12:54:23 GMT
So I bought a pair & commenced with the chopping Now I can’t weld to save my or anybody else’s life, but my mate Negative Phil is quite talented in that area so he has been commissioned to glue it back together. I have the new clutch ready to go in & have gone over the rest of the car & with a set of wiper blades & a tyre & a strip & clean of the brakes then hopefully it will be back in the road by September so I can give my Mother her little Skoda back
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Post by Mike’S-a-loon on Aug 14, 2020 13:01:07 GMT
Wow! Maybe I’m completely spoiled, living in a warm and dry climate, but I really didn’t think cars were capable of rusting out nowadays! Did Rover not hot dip them before painting?
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75 Tourer
Aug 14, 2020 17:03:02 GMT
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Post by stirlingmg on Aug 14, 2020 17:03:02 GMT
They weren’t too badly protected but the little plastic jacking pads fall out & the ends of the sills fill up with silt & trap moisture. That scruffy looking narrow upright bit is actually a plastic divider & as you can see from that picture it has protected the rest of the sill perfectly, they are like this at the front end as well though the rears are the most common for rotting out. I’m looking forward to having that car back on the road, I don’t know what it was but it always felt a nice place to be.
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