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Author The Bright Orange Vauxhall Combo Van all fixed and ready to go again!
shaunmods
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27th Apr 08 at 19:17   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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Originally posted by ScottyBhoy2k7
So you dont have to remove the door cards then? Thank god


Pretty sure you do Scott Not too hard to take them off though
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yes you do mate but its only about 6 screws
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Originally posted by corsagsi16vplym
yes you do mate but its only about 6 screws

Depends if you want to bother with the bottom set of grub screw or not.
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This is getting out of hand. I only intended to do the bare minimum to this thing and now i have smoked Depos arriving soon and a leather gaiter set to match the cally leather and some nice new wiper arms to replace the badly rusted ones. thinking about stereo gear for it now.
These cheap "i'm not going to spend any money it" projects always to seem to spiral.



[Edited on 01-05-2008 by K 5ive]
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New Gaiters arrived today.


The old


The new Leather one


New one for the handbrake as well.


These arrived today as well to set the tone for the orange and black trim theme.

[Edited on 30-04-2008 by K 5ive]
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Wiper arms arrived today. I was going to get hold of some second hand ones on ebay but they were always finishing very close in price to brand new ones on buy iy now. Why do bidders always get so carried away?
Anyway, old and busted ones.


Thats better

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Looking good mate Where abouts did you get your gaiters and how much?
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Looking good mate Where abouts did you get your gaiters and how much?

eBay, £14 for the pair.
Started taking the interior apart today, Yuck! absolutely minging under the seats etc Found over £2 though. More to come. So that makes the cost of the van £245.
Did the heat trick thing yesterday to the plastics. Nice and black before my eyes. I was going to buy new stuff as well.
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May have to pick up a pair as mines are like your old ones Got some door pins like yours aswell just needing delivered The guy round the corner from me fitted them to his girlfriends B and he says you need to cut something
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quote:
Originally posted by ScottyBhoy2k7
Looking good mate Where abouts did you get your gaiters and how much?

eBay, £14 for the pair.
Started taking the interior apart today, Yuck! absolutely minging under the seats etc Found over £2 though. More to come. So that makes the cost of the van £245.
Did the heat trick thing yesterday to the plastics. Nice and black before my eyes. I was going to buy new stuff as well.


£14 but makes such a difference, but you need a new gear knob now.

[Edited on 04-05-2008 by harrisp]
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Originally posted by K 5ive
quote:
Originally posted by ScottyBhoy2k7
Looking good mate Where abouts did you get your gaiters and how much?

eBay, £14 for the pair.
Started taking the interior apart today, Yuck! absolutely minging under the seats etc Found over £2 though. More to come. So that makes the cost of the van £245.
Did the heat trick thing yesterday to the plastics. Nice and black before my eyes. I was going to buy new stuff as well.


£14 but makes such a difference, but you need a new gear knob now.

[Edited on 04-05-2008 by harrisp]

Yeh i know, got my eyes on a Sparco one.
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May have to pick up a pair as mines are like your old ones Got some door pins like yours aswell just needing delivered The guy round the corner from me fitted them to his girlfriends B and he says you need to cut something

Can't be Richbrook ones then. These were a doddle to fit.
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Yeah they are chrome richbrook ones but he bodges everything on so will just listen to your instructions
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Well in between keeping the other half happy this weekend, i have been doing little jobs whenever i get time.
First though some comparison pics of the old and new roof.



Nice shiney new one





Before doing the heat trick on the arches



After, amazed by this, the way they go black before your eyes!




Worked on the rear bumper and the scuttle as well.

[Edited on 05-05-2008 by K 5ive]

[Edited on 05-05-2008 by K 5ive]
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After much struggling as i am still one handed after my broken wrist, with little space to get to the seats as it's a van, i managed to get this out.


To reveal much yukkiness!


Few minutes later


Bit stuck now as i want to get the other seat out but can't as i ned to drive it for the respray and the carpet that i got off here has not arrived yet!
I don't want to put the Cally leather in untill the carpet has arrived. Not point taking it apart twice!
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Originally posted by nova_gteuk
and smooth the aerial off.

Going better than that. Just used my £10 ebay voucher and ordered a new wing. The old one has some surface rust and a dent when i looked closely. New one cost me less than £20. Van has now gone to the garage to be sprayed. I will go there this weekend and strip it down to save on costs.

[Edited on 07-05-2008 by K 5ive]
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this is a great project have you figured out how your going to lower the rear?
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this is a great project have you figured out how your going to lower the rear?

Cheers mate!
When it has all the equipment and 400kgs of water in the back it will be pretty low anyway.
As for lowering it normally, i don't know at the moment. As the garage said if they lower it could be on the bumpstops when loaded up!
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quote:
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this is a great project have you figured out how your going to lower the rear?

Cheers mate!
When it has all the equipment and 400kgs of water in the back it will be pretty low anyway.
As for lowering it normally, i don't know at the moment. As the garage said if they lower it could be on the bumpstops when loaded up!


on the bumpstops would look good low
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i miss my van.
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quote:
Originally posted by K 5ive
quote:
Originally posted by Charlton
this is a great project have you figured out how your going to lower the rear?

Cheers mate!
When it has all the equipment and 400kgs of water in the back it will be pretty low anyway.
As for lowering it normally, i don't know at the moment. As the garage said if they lower it could be on the bumpstops when loaded up!


on the bumpstops would look good low

Yeah sod it! I'll just fill it up for water at PV. I'm sure people could use the water to wash their cars. Actually not a bad idea that. Bring the generator, pressure washer etc and then corsasport members can wash their cars at the campsite.
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at a fair rate £££££
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i miss my van.

Get another! I looked the other day to see if you still had some pics in your garage. Post some up so as i can see again what it looked like.
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that van is ive never seen it before

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