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well, one thing you can say paternity leave is good for is car restoration.

Various boring body work jobs underway but very excited to see the screen fitted today... really makes it feel like a proper car to have a screen in it!!!

looking really good. interested to see the wheels on.

:shock: :shock: definitly a sad sight but as Paul says, need to get it opened up and have a look, there will be some indication about what went wrong. Take pictures before you move anything, get the position of the tensioner and pictures of the assemblies etc etc... you can always come back to them ...

I had a sneaky feeling you had a solid pulley, same here. Hopefully it wasn't that.

Although thinking about it if the dampener is there to protect the crank and ultimately reduce vibration i wonder if a certain resonance would casuse the pulley to throw the belt a bit.

obviously could be the belt but its unlikely. I agree with the close inspection to find the root cause... i wonder if something else failed first. Bottom pulley rubber or the Tensioner? Interference or non interference i think you are going to want to try to understand war happened... or it could ju...

Thanks Paul, i have all the hear bit done then.. i might just have a go.

un1eash wrote:It might be worth giving it a go then, get someone to help though as its pretty heavy and cracks easily it struck on the edge.

Thats probably the No1 reason not to bother doing it myself.

hmm.. we will see.

I know what you mean but if in the course of restoring the car i have been prepared to "make" coil over suspension, refurb all of my callipers including every seal, weld up structural chassis areas and build custom bracketery to hold in aftermarket bumpers etc i would have thought that far...

Has anyone done this themselves?

Mine smashed when it came out (5 years ago) found a reasonable priced new one so i was thinking about doing it myself.

Saving is not huge though so it depends how tricky it is really.

I have no idea what any of those graphs are telling me...

It looks fecking cool though!

I'm just a simple straightforward Yorkshireman :) A yorkshireman you may be, simple might be more debatable! Your posts turn out to be some of the most complicated i have come across!!!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Only joking.. At least your driving your car... mines still in the garage and not ...

I once met an ex Toyota Quality Assurance engineer who was a junior guy on the Mk1 development. He told me they benchmarked the body panels on the Delorean! Maybe they did forget the paint?

jimi wrote:I think he was being facetious

looking good. Not sure no the code you need but fingers crossed this is the month that finally has the happy ending!

PW@Woodsport wrote:Jamex aren't what i'd call springs, just coils of metal all touching each other under normal car weight..... worse than useless.

I think you have a filter set that whenever any post mentions those springs it warns you.

Your doing an amazing public service warning everyone!

getting seriously very board of being impressed by the constant amazing developments on this car.

seriously

halflife wrote:In the process of having my mk1 restored. I supplied 2 new wings, arches and outer sills. Restorer made inner sills and welded everything up. Glass out respray 2.5k + cost of new screen

should be a great job! looking forward to the pics

Oops... So it has.

Anywhere between 700 and 3k... And it looks like Scotland is the most economical place to have it done!

Well that's what I read anyway!

i know the cost will be dependent on many things but can anyone give me a ball park figure for a a mk1 with a sold base colour (e.g not metalic with a laqour) it will need some prep but nothing serious, more flattening back, then primer then top coat. No strip down or rebuild. Any insights would be ...

LOL, i suppose i just don't see anything that special about this Lanner edition... does nothing for me really, i think the Super Editions and maybe the Sherwood Toning models float my boat. Haha.. i love that line... i just don't see anything special.. wonder why that is... oh hold on a moment who ...