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[Ormes]

Be VERY careful when changing the door pins... push hard to hold all of the washers in place and remove and replace the door pin in one go without letting all the washers fall out! Talking from experience

[Nev]

Ooops, seems I've made an error in my write up previously, the discs are actually 330mm diameter (just thought I better mention this for clarity). I think I got confused with the Vectra VXR ones somehow.

[Nev]

Be VERY careful when changing the door pins... push hard to hold all of the washers in place and remove and replace the door pin in one go without letting all the washers fall out! Talking from experience

I'm a bit confused, do you mean push the door pin into the car whilst unscrewing it? Where are the washers, on the inside of the bodywork or the outside? Excuse my ignorance, I haven't really looked at them yet.

[smiley]

Nr 40 to 46 are only held in place by the striker (inside the bodywork). Pull it, and all that crap falls behind sill/speakershelf.

Keep pressure on the sill near the striker pin entry to keep the crap in place, while putting in the uprated striker.

 

Edited by smiley, 28 March 2015 - 10:03 PM.

[Ormes]

Nr 40 to 46 are only held in place by the striker (inside the bodywork). Pull it, and all that crap falls behind sill/speakershelf.
Keep pressure on the sill near the striker pin entry to keep the crap in place, while putting in the uprated striker.
 

Exactly that... Thanks smiley

[Mopeytitan]

My door pins don't have that many washers they only have the big black plastic on and one metal one.

[Ormes]

My door pins don't have that many washers they only have the big black plastic on and one metal one.

The other ones are in your sill

[Mopeytitan]

My door pins don't have that many washers they only have the big black plastic on and one metal one.

The other ones are in your sill

Haha roger that :: got worried there

[Arno]

My door pins don't have that many washers they only have the big black plastic on and one metal one.

 

Quite normal.. The production dimension variations on the roll-over bars, chassis and doors themselves means that there can be huge differences between cars on the number of shims or even on different sides of one car.

 

Eg. On my own car there's a stack of shims on the left but none on the right.

 

They really are 'adjustment' shims just like the shims and spacers under the clams to get everything in the right position.

 

Bye, Arno.

[Arno]

After years of putting up with rattling doors I've finally splashed out £20 on some anti-rattle door pins - hoorah. Can't wait for them to arrive.  

 

Small piece of advice.. Take some time to fit and adjust these. It's time well spent.

 

The new pins are bigger in all dimensions and pretty much fit snugly in all dimensions, so you may need to adjust the height and shimming to allow them to fit into the slots of the door locks smoothly where the original ones have some play.

 

Getting the correct height means the door doesn't get forced up or down by the pin, depth is how far the door needs to shut before it latches and the correct lenght means that the wide part of the pin does not impact the lock surround at the top or rub at the bottom.

Start with getting the lenght set up right with the shims as you need to remove and reinstall it each time for that.  This is the annoying bit..

 

Height and depth can be adjusted by not tightening it fully and bumping the pin around with a soft hammer (eg. plastic or hide) and tapping the pin in the direction you need to adjust it.

 

It usually take some tries and some step-by-step adjustments but when you get it right it works great.. It's just not a 5 minute job..

 

And then you notice that there's stuff rattling inside the doors like the glass on the rails

 

Bye, Arno.

[TFD]

Quick easy fix how I did it.... Wrap one round of ductape around the pin and be done with it.

[Ali87]

Nev please can you bring this beast to the Hoon? Would love to see it in action!

[vxt5]

Nice job on the brakes nev

[Nev]

Nice job on the brakes nev

 

They aren't installed yet (only dummied up on the front). I've bought some lug mounted Porsche Cayenne calipers for the rears, hopefully they will fit with an adjustable adaptor bracket that Josh has kindly given me.

[Nev]

Got home today to a fully washed and polished Nipper (the first time in 3 years!), courtesy of my very kind girlfriend as I have no patience for such things.





You can't actually see it in the pics, but there are hundreds of insects and chips all over the place, drilled into the paintwork beyond redemption.

I have a photo-shoot with him tomorrow for a mag.

Edited by Nev, 16 April 2015 - 04:24 PM.

[Nev]

The camera man came today and we randomly chose the front gateway of a farm for the photo-shoot. 30 minutes into it, the owner drove out and wound his window down - he only turned out to be the old MD of Farbio cars - thankfully he wasn't annoyed by using his farm for our impromptu photoshoot. It seems by chance that we chose the driveway to their carbon fibre clam factory !

 

On the negative side, the T3 exhaust gasket leak is getting bad now (super noisy + smelly), I really need to sort it before next weekend sortie into deepest Wales at dawn.

 

[Ormes]

Making progress on mine now... happy to lend a hand on nipper when you come over next Saturday

[FLD]

 

 

Is that a topolino in your garage (top right)?  Not seen one for many years!

[Nev]

 

 

 

Is that a topolino in your garage (top right)?  Not seen one for many years!

 

 

Nope old bean, its a Mamba (rive boat) and the yellow one is a Wavesport Ace (surfing boat).

 

Gonna tackle the burnt out T3 gasket tonight hopefully. Probably several hours work just to replace a crap 1 mm thick piece of metal

 

Edited by Nev, 20 April 2015 - 04:22 PM.

[Nev]

Job done, 2.25 hours. The T3 gasket only had approx. 0.25 mm compressed/burnt out of it, but was making a hell of a racket, and most probably slowing spool up slightly.

 

I have binned the gasket and decided to mate the exhaust manifold flange directly with turbo flange (ie no gasket between any more and full flange to flange tightness - fnaar).

Edited by Nev, 20 April 2015 - 07:51 PM.