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Rick
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ukdave2002
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Fitted and wired the dash (I hate wiring!!) been renovating the instruments like Weshie has been doing on his MGB V8 recently  .
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Rick
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ukdave2002
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| Rick wrote: | Looking spot-on, was the steering wheel rim in good order or did you have to do it (apologies if you've covered this already ) ?
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Thanks Rick 
The steering wheel is one of Moss's finest Taiwanese repro's  well not quite; I got it half price as the centre should be painted black; this one got missed! as you can see I haven't got round to painting it yet.
Its ok but the rim,( like the repro dash knobs) is very plasticy  I may well replace it with a slightly smaller wooden rim; they were offered as a factory option when new.
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Rich5ltr
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Location: Hampshire, UK
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Interesting that you mention the repro switches being plasticky. I'm looking for a couple for my Aston and I'm struggling to find the bakerlite ones which are more of a dark brown colour.
MGA looking excellent by the way |
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ukdave2002
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| Rich5ltr wrote: | Interesting that you mention the repro switches being plasticky. I'm looking for a couple for my Aston and I'm struggling to find the bakerlite ones which are more of a dark brown colour.
MGA looking excellent by the way |
Thanks If you do find a source of bakerlite knobs let me know, I have a couple of original ones but they are really rough, at least mine are all the same albeit glossy black
did a bit more electrical stuff today; and Bertha (my wife christened her ) has lights for the first time in 40 years
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Rich5ltr
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Location: Hampshire, UK
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| Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Looking good, takes me back to '78/79 when I rebuilt my one. Same colour, I'll scan a picture and post it here |
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ukdave2002
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| Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Rich5ltr wrote: | | Looking good, takes me back to '78/79 when I rebuilt my one. Same colour, I'll scan a picture and post it here |
They would be good to see
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ukdave2002
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| Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:00 am Post subject: |
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Final (hopefully!!) stretch...need to paint the bonnet & boot lid..
Sat them on the body, the boot was ok but the bonnet wasn't sitting correctly; it wouldn't sit on the body at the front it was about 1/2" to high, at first I thought it must have a twist in the frame, but quickly identified that the bonnet was sitting on the radiator filler cap , now on an MGA there is no tweaking of the rad, it sits where it sits....but it did seem to be sitting a tad high...I'd had the radiator re-cored years ago...I also had a spare leaky rad comparing the two my rad had a very non standard "filler"that was both sitting higher and further back than standard. First thought was to un-solder the two fillers and swap them, however as MGA rads aren't that expensive new these days ordered a new one.
The bonnet and boot lid have a steel frame with aluminium skins, so could not be "dipped" when the rest of the body was, I have been periodically been stripping the paint and surface rust off, easy on the outer side, but a pain to get the frame clean. In the end I annealed one edge of each aluminium skin (soap going black indicator worked well ) and slid the skins off the frames, took the frames down to the local blast cleaner, who agreed to turn them round in a couple of hours .
With the frames off I could get better access to the worst of the highs and lows in the skins. With the frames back and skins re-installed, the final tweaking of low spots was addressed with a skim of filler and some stopper.
Followed by a thin coat of etch primer;
Plan is to get a coat of high build primer, and final stopper today, may even get the gloss on if it warms up a bit
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Beetlefan
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| Your doing an amazing job,Well done! |
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ukdave2002
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| Beetlefan wrote: | | Your doing an amazing job,Well done! |
Thanks I'm getting there slowly...!
an update on progress; bonnet and boot now painted
Both now latch, all the bonnet catch parts were missing and I bought new repro bits ...you'd think I would know by now I started filling and bending the Taiwanese finest to try and make them fit ...in the end I sourced a used bonnet catch from a Riley 1.5 from Terry Ferguson classic breakers yard and all was well
Fitting the glass in the windscreen also suffered from the east; the brackets within the frame (that always require replacing) sit in the 4 corners of the frame, naturally they are not quite the right angle and the holes for the screws not quite in the same place and our friends from the east decided that the BA threads should be replaced with UNF ... well at least they are not metric !!
You may notice that neither the bonnet or boot are sitting perfectly...a combination of aluminium skins on flimsy frames , with really flimsy hinges! so so further fetteling is require, but they will do for now.
I also fitted windscreen washers; this MGA previously never had them fitted, apart from being a legal requirement it makes sense to have them ...
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ukdave2002
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Location: South Cheshire
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Well 25th May 2013 is a date in this cars history...its first run in 40 years !!!!
Only a couple of miles to put some petrol in and as confidence increased I came the long way home , drive was not at all bad, the clutch and brakes are a tad long; may need a further bleed.
Still got some trim to fit; but wanted to make sure all the oily bits worked first !
Celebrating with a beer
Dave
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colwyn500
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| It feels like there should be some sort of virtual fanfare...a category in which to announce rebirths like this one. Fantastic result, not many people keep the momentum going to finish a job so thoroughly. |
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ukdave2002
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| Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks !!
I'm hoping to get her out on her first proper public outing this weekend
Cheers
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JC T ONE
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Well done  bet you are pleased to her get to this point .
Car looks really good.
Jens Christian
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