Stacov
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They are brand new, didnt get any bits of paper what so ever with it. It was only the driver side giving me issues hopefully suited now. Yeah can only move it a 1mm either way only when jackded up once car is down its all tensioned. i have no idea why it slipd out abit all i did was drive down the road turn a couple of times and it had slipd out abit.
With my old skyline i could move the springs by hand aswell never affected its driving tho lol
Sounds like a common issue and not just me
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Just had some crazy thoughts come thru my mind just now got a couple of questions
1. when installing spring e.g. dobi etc.. they arent markd in anyway so is there a top/bottom ?
2. when car is jacked up should i beable to sightly turn the spring with my hand?
Just wondering cause i had it slip out of the top hat abit so got me wondering have i screwed something up and put it in wrong
they are in my mk2 escort cheers lol
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I have the same flares on my panel van been a year + now, never had any issues with them
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motor sounds good, anything else been done to it apart from the cam ?
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Well was driving home today had just finished raining, just about to slow down and brake to go around a corner and over the raliway tracks. Next thing i know is the car not turning heading towards a fence front brake had lockd up all i could do is enjoy going towards the fence lucky. Before the fence was quite abit of dirt which brought me to my stop!!! Just missed a pole thing it took off my wing mirror and left some white paint on the side of my car.
Honestly have no idea how it happend drove past the same spot for the last 8 years im putting it down to wet/slipy road hopefully not some problem with my brakes somewhere!!!
Lucky noone was around reversed out and drove on my way lol very very lucky
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Took it for a wof today passed with flying colours, The guy that did the wof couldnt get over how well the interior was looked after and had no rust in the chassis.
he even wanted to buy it
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haha yup totally too bad my panel van isnt inspirational haha
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now u can chat about it gogo!
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feel free to chat about it lol
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Well picked this up yesterday from bulls body not too bad. Seems to be all oringal very happy with the interior tidiest ive had in a escort so far.
Will put up pics today, Plans get it rego/wof put my 13x7 hotwires on lower it try keep it as orginal as poss and when i got the coin rebuild the 1600
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paint still wet and drying/glossing atm heaps brighter then the picture but u can see the differents in the paint also made flares apart of the car
slowly getting there tho
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Well had lost interest in this for very long time lol, gearbox blew up , broken win screen etc.. finally started doing things on it again.
It does have a cert now tho so thats all good
Replaced gearbox put a lighten flywheel on aswell.
slowly painting it as weather allows me my garage not big enough to paint whole thing at once so doing it in sections but should be ok with the paint im using, im in no way a expect panel better or painter lol learning as i go. All im after is a "tidy" finish
paint colour delious red
got some ROH 15" mags but hotwires look so much better
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mad escort very nice!!!
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Yeah not sure how rooted it is but for months the brakes barely workd and they would keep going soft
and yeah after putting engine back in i had no brakes haha.
Yea was just a real mission to get to it all with the extractors in the way running a 2L
Will take it into town and get it checkd over.
cheers
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Hey man, what sort of master brake cylinder did u use? and how did u hook it up to the brake pedal ?
just asking cause mine has fucked out and boy was it a mission to get it all off pretty keen to have same sort of setup as urs
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that really sucks man, goodluck getting it back in one piece
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thanks for the replys
finally fixed it dizzy timing was 180 degrees out
had a local guy come around hes a old school mechanic fixed it in 5 minutes he double checkd my timing everything else was bang on, he told me to put it back together and said see u driving past soon
he didnt even wait to see if it was going to start he knew it would be sweet lol
Stacovs 1981 4door mk2 ghia
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Changed to circle headlights and stole my panel vans front spoiler