Author Topic: And So It Begins.... (Read 120805 times)

SanRemo78 · « **Reply #520 on:** June 16, 2025, 07:14:32 PM »

Thanks Peter, yes, I think that any slack can be taken up by the cross bulkhead adjustable rod, I'd forgotten that bit and may be assembling it in the coming days. I ask as I'd had an issue on a Fiat 124 Spider years ago with slight contact causing dragging brakes to eventually bring the car to a halt... Don't want to repeat that mistake!

Onwards. Having started at the servo/master cylinder end I thought I'd go to the other end of the car and install the balance compensator and the associated linkage. Dragged the new one out and it was soon apparent that it was incomplete and there are other issues! Luckily I hadn't thrown the original one out so that provided the missing bush and retaining bracket. Then I struggled to work out how to assemble it all. A bit of crawling around under the car didn't help so i had to refer to good old Haynes. Then the penny dropped! The rubber boot that came with new compensator wasn't right. Lucking the old one wasn't split and half an hour with some white spirit softened it up again to the point it was perfectly usable again. All assembled on the bench but then the bushes for the drop link just started disintegrating. Probably okay once installed but I'm going to start again with a stainless insert and plastic tube instead. Ten minutes back under the car and it's all in place bar the drop link that I'll finish tomorrow.

More time lost running back to the powder coaters with a couple more bits I'd forgotten needed doing and then a therapuetic hour or so cleaning up a rubber scuttle gasket I picked up from Mark over a week ago. Now it's as good as I'll find and better that the chewed one I had before!

SanRemo78 · « **Reply #521 on:** June 16, 2025, 07:16:23 PM »

Apologies for that picture - not sure what I've done wrong other than using a WIndows machine instead of the MacBook I'm familiar with - I think that's dying a slow death now....

SanRemo78 · « **Reply #522 on:** June 16, 2025, 10:34:19 PM »

Try once more

SanRemo78 · « **Reply #523 on:** June 18, 2025, 05:25:24 PM »

I hate brake pipes. Two days on it so far and one left to make and install. So far I've only managed to make one of them too short and had to start again, I'm so glad I removed the original ones and kept them as patterns! It made it so much easier to bend them into the correct positions but there is a downside - one of them still contained some old fluid which luckily landed on me rather than the paintwork!. I've got a few unions and copper washers on the way so I may be able to connect the rear callipers and handbrake in the coming days. Whilst I'm in the mood to work with pipes I think it's time to consider the fuel lines. Unfortunately I've just realised that the GC motor hasn't got a mechanical fuel pump for the twin 40's... So there's a dilemma. Do I bother running the return pipe to the tank now or not? If I don't run it that may solve an issue I have with broken pipe clips.... I should really replace the lot, I wonder if Car Builder Solutions stock anything suitable that's a direct replacement. I'm not going to be drilling new holes in this car! I bought a bag of 50 screw in unions for the job. I think that's about twice as many as I needed. They must have been cheap! No photos today - it's not tidy enough and not all clipped down. I really must remember to go around the pipework and tighten them all down in the next few days.

SanRemo78 · « **Reply #524 on:** June 23, 2025, 02:32:30 PM »

Anyone with a Coupe and Jack mounting brackets available to give me a measurement?

The bracket underneath the left rear light is bolted into the right place but as the panel it sits on had to be fabricated I don’t have any reference holes as to where I need to drill for the inner bracket. Bugger. Freshly painted and Dynaxed and I have to drill it. Anyhoo, can someone give the measurement between the hole centres for the two nearest ones on each bracket so I can position the second one correctly please?

Thankfully the pair I retrieved from the dead VX Coupe are Marks two weeks ago cleaned up nicely and are now powder coated so should last a while!

Guy

SanRemo78 · « **Reply #525 on:** June 23, 2025, 03:23:51 PM »

And how should the jack be stowed? Top nearest the outside of the car or the middle? Lift pin on the top side of the jack I assume?

Ferrit · « **Reply #526 on:** June 23, 2025, 08:30:45 PM »

I have no jack, or know where to store it.

When you are done pictures please

Ferrit · « **Reply #527 on:** June 23, 2025, 10:05:01 PM »

If you can elaborate what you are looking for I think I have all the jacking points still in situ.

The brake compensator, can they be rebuilt? My one looks a little funky

peteracs · « **Reply #528 on:** June 23, 2025, 11:38:37 PM »

Hi Mark

On the rear brake compensator, just buy a new one, they are pretty cheap not worth messing with in my view, used on a wide range of cars from memory.

Peter

Ferrit · « **Reply #529 on:** June 24, 2025, 12:56:19 AM »

Thank you. If you want details of jacking points etc shout. Everything seems original under my car.

SanRemo78 · « **Reply #530 on:** June 24, 2025, 08:58:25 AM »

Yes please Mark - distance between the two closest screws on the two brackets would be appreciated!

When you get a new compensator check that the rubber boot has the correct orientation, keep the old one until you're sure!

Guy

Ferrit · « **Reply #531 on:** June 24, 2025, 09:40:15 PM »

sorry being thick "Yes please Mark - distance between the two closest screws on the two brackets", I dont quite get this.

Nigel · « **Reply #532 on:** June 24, 2025, 09:49:50 PM »

Mark,
He's not referring to jacking points, but to the location of the brackets
in the boot where the actual jack mounts. A photo of yours will help.

BTW Mark, those 4 square flimsy brackets on the sills are not jacking points but were used as support
points on the assembly line.
Msg rcvd!

Nigel

SanRemo78 · « **Reply #533 on:** June 24, 2025, 10:05:07 PM »

Thanks Nigel - yes the bracketry within the boot - I'll try to attach a couple of photos but I'm struggling with a dying MacBookPro at the moment so I'm juggling stuff.

Mark, yes, it's the two brackets in the boot. One underneath the left side light and the other towards the centre. Photos will help but the measurement is what I need.

And yes Nigel, the four square brackets underneath the car were for build purposes but on my car, when the sills were opened for repairs Geoff T built in strengthening structures to allow me to use these as jacking points! Inner and outer sills and floorpan are all tied together there now.

SanRemo78 · « **Reply #534 on:** June 24, 2025, 10:07:49 PM »

Photos, top one is in the correct position, the screw head to the left is nearer the centre of the car. The second photo shows the other mount but I need a measurement from the screw in the first photo to the nearest hole in the second bracket. Hope it's clear!
Thanks!
Guy

Ferrit · « **Reply #535 on:** June 24, 2025, 11:21:58 PM »

ahh okay. I dont think I have any of these brackets, and was actually trawling the internet yesterday trying to understand whats missing. Sorry for the confusion. I might still have mounting holes. I will try and figure out

Ferrit · « **Reply #536 on:** June 26, 2025, 01:41:49 PM »

Thank you Guy. I now have a jack to tick off my list

I think they use toothpaste tube tops here?!

SanRemo78 · « **Reply #537 on:** June 26, 2025, 06:48:25 PM »

I might be able to provide two replacement thumbscrews.

peteracs · « **Reply #538 on:** June 26, 2025, 09:29:03 PM »

If not then should have some of those in one of my boxes.

Peter

rossocorsa · « **Reply #539 on:** June 27, 2025, 11:58:06 AM »

I believe there is also a bracket somewhere on the floor to hold the warning triangle? Can't show you where as my own car is, as always, in bits.

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