JH86
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Fair play fs.. I remember him being born
Carmad Jr’s Rare Vauxhall Viva Ha SL
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Up at the shed for a while today and he managed to get the rear fuse box mounted and painted but i forgot to take pics off that
i then got the pedal support i made welded in to position and made him get it bolted up lol he was lightly complaining about having to get down in to the foot well and i replied anything else needs welded down there he can do it
and with the pedal bolted up i think it lines up well with the other two pedals
next week hopefully get the rear lights wired up
i then got the pedal support i made welded in to position and made him get it bolted up lol he was lightly complaining about having to get down in to the foot well and i replied anything else needs welded down there he can do it
and with the pedal bolted up i think it lines up well with the other two pedals
next week hopefully get the rear lights wired up
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Favourite thread on here by far. Awesome
lol he’s already at me to finish the bedford and start on the zoo zoo pizza
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Yeah he’s heard scraps up atm
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Yeah he’s heard scraps up atm
he knows they only built them once and isn’t after the quick cash looking forward to projects with his dad
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Till he need the ££ for a bag of grass then calling Ecoparthe knows they only built them once and isn’t after the quick cash looking forward to projects with his dad
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Till he need the ££ for a bag of grass then calling Ecopart
exactly why i am doing this keep him away from that stuff
southsky sunrise
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You know I’m messing brother. Your a good dad and juniors a good head on his shoulders, if he turns out half the man you are you’ve done your job
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so up at the shed today again for a few hours after a unsuccessful trip to @pablo s
he got stuck in to the back lights while i was plumbing up a small hand wash sink and with @MarkM s wee super ser we making it more like home away from home
so here is a picture of the new rear mounted fuse box
and here is the wee man soldering / heat shrinking and extending the rear light looms to suit
we managed to pick up a few bits yesterday out in Randelstown that we are short and i hope to get them fitted next weekend and get closer to firing it up for the first time
he got stuck in to the back lights while i was plumbing up a small hand wash sink and with @MarkM s wee super ser we making it more like home away from home
so here is a picture of the new rear mounted fuse box
and here is the wee man soldering / heat shrinking and extending the rear light looms to suit
we managed to pick up a few bits yesterday out in Randelstown that we are short and i hope to get them fitted next weekend and get closer to firing it up for the first time
looking through the classifieds and saw this, it might be of interest to you
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It's great working with the kids.
Currently have a wee Berlingo project that I am working on with my 6 year old, could have it done in no time if doing it by myself, but he is so into it, and delighted with himself when he completes something, makes it all worthwhile. Wife is sick of it as its all he ever talks about now.
Currently have a wee Berlingo project that I am working on with my 6 year old, could have it done in no time if doing it by myself, but he is so into it, and delighted with himself when he completes something, makes it all worthwhile. Wife is sick of it as its all he ever talks about now.
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Might be of some use for parts or another project
good project for someone but i recently sold my viva hc as i had no room for it
the wee one we are working on is a ha
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yeah also shows you what is available for these have you seen my bedford van thread
yeah also shows you what is available for these have you seen my bedford van thread
my bedford ha
some off you will have seen pics as i went along but i realised i didn’t have a build thread on here so due to photobucket looking a fortune to host pics i have lost so many photos during the first part off this build this is my bedford ha van as i got it as you can see the underneath is...
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That's actually where I thought I was posting. How many projects do you have lad?
Yeah, they bought in 2 sill panels and had to fabricate literally everything else from scratch
i prefer not to answer that question my wife is still a registered member on here
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I was gonna say something like that lol.
It's a question that 'The management ' would ask lol
Had a mate years ago who had around 6 or 7 cars either in his garage or around the drive and was understandably getting a fair amount of feedback from the Mrs for it. One Sunday morning an old mate of his appeared for a coffee and a chat which he didn't really know what the point of the visit was because he hadn't seen him for years because he had been working abroad. So the Mrs made the coffee and general catch up chat ensued, all the time with the mate wondering WTF this was a this about. After the social aspects had been covered, matey asked Mike what he wanted to do with the 13 cars that he had put in one of her mans sheds around 10 years prior. Blood drains from Mike's face and his Mrs explodes lol..
It's a question that 'The management ' would ask lol
Had a mate years ago who had around 6 or 7 cars either in his garage or around the drive and was understandably getting a fair amount of feedback from the Mrs for it. One Sunday morning an old mate of his appeared for a coffee and a chat which he didn't really know what the point of the visit was because he hadn't seen him for years because he had been working abroad. So the Mrs made the coffee and general catch up chat ensued, all the time with the mate wondering WTF this was a this about. After the social aspects had been covered, matey asked Mike what he wanted to do with the 13 cars that he had put in one of her mans sheds around 10 years prior. Blood drains from Mike's face and his Mrs explodes lol..
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Oh she knows more than she lets on
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So we got up to the shed today after helping a couple off people out with emergency’s
one of the main differences in this and my van is we want to run all new wiring clocks ect but keep it with in reason as close as possible to the original with out going over board
this is a standard mk5 astra instrument cluster
and this is the standard viva dash board
i honestly think it’s pretty close so i took the face off the clocks and marked out where i think it needs to be
so a careful bit off chopping later
just have to make a small support bracket to carry this and the steering shaft but that’s for another day
so we started on the light switches same idea
wiring in to where it needs to be
then we took the time to weld on some bolts for earth points
and with that done we have the front fuse box mount to make and a couple off earth posts to make around the rear fuse box
one of the main differences in this and my van is we want to run all new wiring clocks ect but keep it with in reason as close as possible to the original with out going over board
this is a standard mk5 astra instrument cluster
and this is the standard viva dash board
i honestly think it’s pretty close so i took the face off the clocks and marked out where i think it needs to be
so a careful bit off chopping later
just have to make a small support bracket to carry this and the steering shaft but that’s for another day
so we started on the light switches same idea
wiring in to where it needs to be
then we took the time to weld on some bolts for earth points
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so a bit off drama up at the shed this week a young lad was welding in another shed and unfortunately set fire to a load off stuff but gratefully all our stuff was ok i have photos but can’t put them on here as insurance companies are involved thanks to @FM155 for giving me a heads up about the fire .
as we got stuck in one off the first things is adapting the body to accept the mk5 astra steering column
it’s shocking to think that six spot welds and a small triangulated bracket is all that held the original in
considering this is what holds it in a mk5 astra
once we had a rough idea where it was going to live i made up a stronger plate and welded it in
next up was to get the original seat and rail out off storage and see how the flyby wire pedal lined up and also the large steering wheel / column
wee man trying it out
and here it is all in and the clocks in aswell
then he got stuck in to the front fuse box and we are back up tomorrow hopefully
as we got stuck in one off the first things is adapting the body to accept the mk5 astra steering column
it’s shocking to think that six spot welds and a small triangulated bracket is all that held the original in
considering this is what holds it in a mk5 astra
once we had a rough idea where it was going to live i made up a stronger plate and welded it in
next up was to get the original seat and rail out off storage and see how the flyby wire pedal lined up and also the large steering wheel / column
wee man trying it out
and here it is all in and the clocks in aswell
then he got stuck in to the front fuse box and we are back up tomorrow hopefully
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mate did you see the two jags that got burnt ? heart breaking for the ownerSo friggin happy to see your shed and projects survived ok, was a fair sized fire. You know it's hot when the tin is just glowing orange and you can see that clearly across 2 fields.
You are cracking along with this rightly now, looking great.