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  1. Hi. I'm looking for the interior door trim for my early 110 rebuild, the 2 part trim pieces fell apart when I was removing them, I've got some which are complete, but not all of them.  I believe the part number is CZA2259L.  Looking online they're unavailable. Anywhere. Would a 3D scanning and printing service be a worthwhile avenue, or has someone got a carrier bag of these hanging around. I think I need another few bits of interior trim as well, but I'll only know when it all starts to go back in.

    It was a complete basket case, had had a few coats of olive drab applied by yard brush, biffs, knocks, holes etc, so it's not a faithful repro.

     

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  2. I've got 3 kids, and I am rather fond of them. I'm currently (re) building a 1983 110 CSW to use as a family 'adventure' (Camping, laning, travel etc) car, and I'm planning to fit a SD internal / External 8 point cage. Is there any way I can mount a 3 / 4 point seatbelt top mount to the cage for the (Safe) use of the occupant of the middle seat? Would 2X 6mm plates, shaped to fit and clamped round the tube be sufficient to take a seatbelt top mount ? (It's probably lots stronger than the 'C' post seatbelt provision)

    Thanks

    Nick

  3. Hi

    I'm looking at a 300tdi (1996) which is in good nick, apart from a couple of crusty patches around the bonnet hinges. They seem to span above and below the water trough.

    Scrap bulkhead or is it repairable?

    I've replaced an A pillar on a previous 90, so I'm not afraid of the electric hot glue gun.

    The involvement of the water trough gives me the heebie jeebies though.

  4. Never heard of a 2.anything diff :huh: but.....

    Just to confirm - are you counting turns of the road wheels on both sides turning together, or the turns of one road wheel while the other one is still? Due to the effect of the diff, if you are only turning one road wheel it will go 2x the speed so you need to factor that in.

    It sounds like your rear is turning both wheels together and you are counting 3.54 ratio, while the front is turning only the wheel on one side which with a 4.7 Series diff in there would give you 2.35 turns and as Nige said needs fixing sort of now-ish!

    Yeah, 'checking' is with one wheel off the ground, it's been like that for years and years, but I've got a disco axle (Knackered) in the garage, I'll pinch its diff and 'pop' it into my 90.

  5. Hi

    I've been having trouble with my diff lock for years, and today I decided to check out my ratios, as it doesn't behave 'properly' when running with the difflock on. (Only on ice / snow, rear tries to overtake the front)

    Rear diff gives 3.5 or so turns of the prop for one turn of the wheel, all well and good there.

    Front diff gives just over 2 turns.....

    What's going on?

    (Car was assembled, seemingly in the dark by Liveridge a few years ago - For the previous owner)

  6. Sadly I don't have the time to pull the body off, and we can get the accessible bits blasted and primed in an afternoon. The rest will be steam cleaned and slathered in 2 pack zinc rich primer, and overcoated in underseal / waxoylesque product.

    Fuel lines, brake lines, wiring etc. will be masked off with gaffer tape, which resists being blasted with silica sand rather well. We're not going for a 'bare metal' /SA2.5 type finish, just to fire the loose crud off and pull off any old coatings.

  7. My Dad has a gritblasting / painting company, and we're thinking of lifting my '90 up on the forklift and sandblasting and painting as much of the chassis and axles atc. as we can. Then blowing off all the dust / carp, etc. and spraying it with an industrial paint.

    Is it a rubbish idea to do this? The chassis isn't knackered, but is going brown where the old waxoyl / underseal has come off.

  8. My 180K mile 200 TDi is chuffing out of the back of the engine, through where the HG onbiously has cried enough.

    Looking at the ID hole plate, I can see 2 holes, one in the centre of the plate, and one 1/4 hidden under the head casting. Do I simply replace the 2 hole gasket with another 2 hole gasket, or do I need to skim the head 0.1 mil, and use a 1.5mm one? Also, I've read in some places that the headbolts are OK for 5 uses, is this equine excrement, and should I add those to my shopping list as well?

    Also, my rad is weeping ever so slightly, and as the coolant etc. will be out of it, it makes sense to replace it too. Paddocks ones OK, or does someone have a decent used one lying about that we can come to a beer token agreement on? ALternatively it may get radweld, and a stay of execution.

    Sump also has a nice weepy rust hole in it too, I'm guessing it's worth doing that at the same time. Similar plea to the previous paragraph for decent used sump in exchange for beer tokens.

    I do have an LT77 from a Disco lying about if someone fancies a beer token free swap, but be advised I am in Aberdeenshire

    Cheers

    Nick

  9. Cheers.

    First of all the batt that was in it with the petrol engine died, but it was definitely on its last legs, then the battery that was in the disco donor was used, this again was pretty ancient, and this one died. I bought a new Bosch Silver battery that was doing sterling service until this recent period of very cold weather, (Minus 20) and I'm hoping that it was the weather that's done it.

    Oh, the light bulbs are all A1.

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