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 Expert Posts: 4458    Location: Jelling, Denmark | Metromartin - 22/1/2012 11:38 AM That wing looks like new! Makes the wheels look tatty now, your have to respray those too now!  the wheels are tatty  but as its millimeter rims i will be throwing them out when they are worn out. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | did a bit more work assembling the 998 A-series this weekend, and it looks great cant wait to have it MOT'ed and drive it things remaining to be sorted is: - new headgasket as the old one seems to be popped - the middle of the three plugs that push out if the coolant freezes (dont know the name in english) is corroded and leaking so will have to be changed - underseal the entire car (have done the arches) - put inner arches in the front again - change the fuel tank as its leaking - change the windshield as its cracked - change the oil and filter a few pictures of the car assembled with bonnet, bumpers, grille and lights and on nicer wheels than the last time          Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 11:58 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | ralphh85 - 29/1/2012 12:45 AM whats the car sitting on there?? Ralph a one pillar lift which is a giant piston digged down in the ground raiding using compressed air. good for welding work but bad for exhaust work Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 11:56 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | look what I bought  | ||
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 823 Location: leicester | that headlight surround looks familiar  | ||
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 MP Admin Posts: 17870 Location: Gloucester | looks like new! top work, weldone for saving another metro | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | metro dave - 30/1/2012 10:16 PM that headlight surround looks familiar how so? Metromartin - 30/1/2012 10:44 PM looks like new! top work, weldone for saving another metro thanks. I do have a thing for metro's a bit of work left in this one though | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | metro dave - 31/1/2012 12:43 PM the amount of time i was looking at it trying to work out if it was the right one for you, we eventually got there in the end yes. its is the right one and in brand new. only the wrong color, but luckily that can be changed | ||
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| Elite Veteran Posts: 823 Location: leicester | |||
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 The TV star Metro GTa 1.1i Posts: 1061  Location: Early, Reading. | |||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | did a bit of work on the car this weekend, found out that the tank was leaking, so went to my room of many parts to find another, the first I found was also leaking so went and found a third which was very nice, but a bit older than the car, but that will do (two lug petrol cap instead of tre lugs as the cars own tank) also found out that one of the rear subframe mounts had split. did you know that '84 and '89 mounts does not line up in the same way. with the '84 mounts the subframe sits about 1cm higher (closer to the car) than it does with the '89 due to the different way the rear of the subframe rests on the body I suppose.      Edited by DotMatrix 15/2/2012 7:13 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Roger Red Hat - 4/2/2012 12:14 PM it was a new car?! what do you mean? | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | the car was running badly and was impossible to tune in correctly and was using a lot of water, so figured that the headgasket was probably damaged, but when I took the head off I saw that the head was cracked, so changed that. only have 1275 heads where the valves dont clear the block due to the bores in the 998 being placed differently than they are in the 1275, so pocketed the block and mounted the head and this made it work much better, although now the needle profile don't fit any more so it isn't getting enough fuel as you depress the throttle more and more but this is fixable. also the new tank I put in also has a leak so it only holds 15 liters and then the rest spills out, so that have to be changed again, the fuel level sensor dont work and the water temp dont work, but all in all fixable problems. put on the last bumper corner and assembled the front       Edited by DotMatrix 15/2/2012 7:15 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | fitted a new water pump as the old one was leaking badly from being cooked when the engine was ran without water for a period after it had the bump. other than that the car have been MOT'ed, had a nice new numberplate and being used daily. nice driving an a-series again   | ||
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 Expert Posts: 2029 Location: sittingbourne, kent | Awesome work from a abandoned looking wreck on page 1 (no offence) to a road worthy tidy looking metro | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | R100_vvc - 15/2/2012 9:44 PM Awesome work from a abandoned looking wreck on page 1 (no offence) to a road worthy tidy looking metro thanks | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | fixed the petrol gauge and temp gauge, damn that dash is hard to get out! also filed down the needle to make it run better with the 1275 cylinder head, only have one spot left on the needle when on 75-100% throttle and in low revs, but I can live with that for now. also its not viable as a permanent car as you really cant drive faster than 65-70 mph with a 3.76:1 gearing if you want the engine to last. other than that it drives really well   Edited by DotMatrix 7/4/2012 11:31 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Metromartin - 19/2/2012 11:33 PM on the RHD cars people undo the speedo cable from the fusebox access, but not sure you can do that on the LHD so i can see why its a pain!! keep up the good work! speedo cable is easiest reched through the radio hole, the two wire plugs are hard to reach | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | though the sound was a bit scratchy and squiky in the red 998 so took the door pockets out to see how the speakers looked, and they were definitely due for a change. probably as old as the car also took a picture of the mk1 mg interior which I think looks nice especially because everything else inside the car is also grey. balanced the wheels although one of them still jump so will probably need to be balanced again. and the last picture is just to show the strange bracket inside the passenger door pocket, I'm thinking its meant to be used for leaning your foot on or something, what do you think?     Edited by DotMatrix 7/4/2012 11:33 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | found an other black headlamp surround on ebay that I bought  Edited by DotMatrix 7/4/2012 11:29 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | the car was only running on 3 cylinders the last week, so have been out fixing it this weekend, turned out it was a burned valve, so cut the seat up a bit, found an other valve, cut that down a bit, and bedded the valve in with grinding paste, now it runs nicely again       Edited by DotMatrix 7/4/2012 11:37 PM | ||
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The TV star Metro GTa 1.1i Posts: 1061 Location: Early, Reading. | |||
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