The fans were just an ebay purchase, there's plenty of them at various sizes to suit whatever application. A slimmer design with i'm sure a much more powerful motor than the originals have.
It's been a while now, but from memory I didn't have much to do for the MOT, a very strange one was movement in the rear offside suspension, which I was told seemed to be top mount failure, which I knew it wouldn't as i'd only fitted the poly top mounts to the rear recently. It turned out that the nut securing the spax shocks in the strut body had somehow loosened itself off and all the movement was just down this.
Due to new MOT guidelines at the time, although I think there gradually going back to the original rules after VOSA poked their nose in, I had to replace ball joints and track rod ends, purely down to worn gaiter/rubbers.
There was some welding needed to the rear turrets directly behind strut bodies, a bit by floor pan to sill on the offside and the car would cut out if the fusebox was touched! Turns out the connector had become loose from the wiring from the battery to right side of fusebox and depending on where the fusebox was moved would depend on what worked. A couple of minutes bodging the wiring to get home and all was well.
That was the thursday, I then got to work sorting out the wiring properly when I got home, loading some bits and bobs in the car and the next day we travelled towards norfolk
After approx 2 hours driving from wiltshire, we stopped at a service station for a break, to then continue the journey. But of all times, the ignition barrel decided that when the key was turned the starter would not engage, and the barrel had quite clearly failed, I presume the points inside are worn/broken. So after checking all wiring I could quickly check was ok, I found some spare wiring, made up the relevant connectors to join to the wire going to the starter, tapped it onto the battery + and it turned over and fired up first time. Panic over, the car drove faultless to norfolk, around the tour day and the journey back, I think it wasn't far off 500 miles in 2 and a bit days, and my back survived with the odd cushion here and there of course. So if anyone thought why I had the bonnet up all the time it was purely just to start the car.
All in all you couldn't fault the weekend, one, if not the best weekend we had of the year weather-wise, with a great selection of beta's on a well organised event
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I haven't really done anything with the car since, hence the lack of updating the blog, but what I did spend half an hour doing the other day was removing the offending ignition barrel...
I was pleasantly surprised to find that by punching the bolts, I could reasonably easily tap the bolts around until the barrel clamp fell into two...
I also found some remanufactured wheel centre caps i've had for a while to fit into the integrale wheels, don't worry it's only cobwebs that make the wheel look like it might have marks...
Of the four fitted, two of the Lancia emblems popped out on them which was a bit annoying, but nothing a bit of glue won't sort.
That's pretty much all I can think of at the moment, and I expect fitting the replacement barrel will be next on the agenda
