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General gone and done it.

Never mind T-Cut, that takes ages and gives an average job.

Call into Paint Shop Supplies in Durham there and see Malcome, grab one of them Kestral polishers for paintwork ( I think they are about £70 but well worth the money) some 1200 or 2000 wet n dry, it'll have any paintwork that can be saved looking brilliant in no time.

I've painted the bonnet today for mine so if I get chance tomorrow morning I'll take a few shots and you can see what difference it makes. Fresh paint like old paint needs its top layer taken off to make it shine better.
 
well he's home anyway. pulled home behind the skoda and I'm pretty glad we didn't try a roadside job.

so after a quick once over the frustratingly good news is it seems too good to break. remarkably clean and sound underneath and structurally, no rust round the seams or inside the rear hatch etc. doors, hatch and bonnet all tatty though. Also it appears to have a brake servo! Luxury motoring!!

another unexpected bonus I hadn't noticed too. It's had a replacement N/S mirror with a colour coded base:

now does that shade of blue look familiar at all? and Grumbleweed has a colour coded base on th O/S mirror but not the N/S:D ...yet
the not so good, does seem to have been the spider on the inner end of the N/S driveshaft which has disintegrated. Here's what came out with the oil:

sorry not a great photo but there was quite a pile of little needles and bits. The driveshaft came out sans most of the spider assembly.
No probs, fresh one on from the spares supply, back on and fire it back up......loads of noise and no movement (apart from a regular banging) So looks the driveshaft took the gearbox out too:(
sigh. Be much easier if it wasn't too good to break, I'd just start pulling bits off but it's a good shell and I do have a spare gearbox...
Project then.
Start by fixing the exhaust on Grumbles then begin cleaning scruffbag up just so I feel better about him until time and weather lend themselves to driveway gearbox changes.
 
Chas Uno said:
You'll be saying it has two speed wipers AND intermittent next!

:p

Nice project by the way and a good find (y)
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hmmm, haven't actually checked the wipers yet.
just had a thought, my spare gearbox is off the old panda with the underfloor gearchange linkage. Are these interchangeable with the later linkages cos that's what the new one has:( anyone know?
 
not be much progress today, can hardly tell the 2 Pandas apart there's so much snow and if I can get anything done it's gotta be the exhaust on grumbleweed since I now have a manifold to put on. Maybe try and clean up inside if anything, out of the snow!!
 
Yep, the snow prompted me to have a day off from Panda work yesterday, too cold and too covered :)
 
some major work today in the odd half hour before I have to go to work! Entered scruffbag this morning with a bucket of soap water and a cloth and came out half an hour later with a bucket of black sludge. So now the dashboard, cointray and gearstick are clean, the Y10 steering wheel's in and I now know the wipers and horn don't work. at all.
this car is supposed to have passed an MOT in December?:(
much projectage to do here.
 
firstcar-Y10 said:
some major work today in the odd half hour before I have to go to work! Entered scruffbag this morning with a bucket of soap water and a cloth and came out half an hour later with a bucket of black sludge. So now the dashboard, cointray and gearstick are clean, the Y10 steering wheel's in and I now know the wipers and horn don't work. at all.
this car is supposed to have passed an MOT in December?:(
much projectage to do here.
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They where working, have you checked the fuses
 
toonstar1977 said:
They where working, have you checked the fuses
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Hi, you still keeping an eye on him;) I'll feel even worse if I start stripping him for bits now:eek:
Yeah you wouldn't have driven it far this time of year without wipers eh. Haven't looked at fuses yet, only stuck my head in this morning to start cleaning up and just see what was in there. I was assuming the horn must have been playing up anyway cos the horn push was lying on the passenger seat. Not any rush at the mo anyway with the gearbox seemingly out of commission it's lying on the drive so I'm just pratting with it until I get a run at the big jobs.
Was this a project in progress?, found an inlet manifold gasket, part of an exhaust manifold gasket, and a hacksaw blade so far under the back seat. wierd mix of stuff needing done and surprisingly good nick so far.
 
So, major success, the wipers thing was bothering me so went back to look again and now have functioning wipers again. Didn't do anything you understand, they just now work again for no apparent reason. Obviously just grumpy from lack of use. Sorry for doubting you there toonstar:eek:
did they self park before or is that long gone now?
 
firstcar-Y10 said:
Hi, you still keeping an eye on him;) I'll feel even worse if I start stripping him for bits now:eek:
Yeah you wouldn't have driven it far this time of year without wipers eh. Haven't looked at fuses yet, only stuck my head in this morning to start cleaning up and just see what was in there. I was assuming the horn must have been playing up anyway cos the horn push was lying on the passenger seat. Not any rush at the mo anyway with the gearbox seemingly out of commission it's lying on the drive so I'm just pratting with it until I get a run at the big jobs.
Was this a project in progress?, found an inlet manifold gasket, part of an exhaust manifold gasket, and a hacksaw blade so far under the back seat. wierd mix of stuff needing done and surprisingly good nick so far.
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Yes still keeping my eye on him, i would like to see him back on the road he has been a loyal friend for the last 5 years.The horn was replaced last year for the MOT but i could not get the cover back on the steering wheel and the wipers have not parked properly for ages i did replace it but that motor only worked when it felt like it.
 
toonstar1977 said:
Yes still keeping my eye on him, i would like to see him back on the road he has been a loyal friend for the last 5 years.The horn was replaced last year for the MOT but i could not get the cover back on the steering wheel and the wipers have not parked properly for ages i did replace it but that motor only worked when it felt like it.
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:( oh well, I was hoping on the third attempt I might finally get a Panda where the wipers worked right but I guess that was too much to hope for. I'm just jinxed with wipers. My first panda had the wipers hotwired exactly the same way, Grumbleweed has had them totally rewired and they still don't work that well, and the Y10 wiper just ocasionally stopped working but not quite often enough to ever find the fault.
He will be back on the road anyway just on general principle cause I haven't been able to drive him yet. 2 weeks time I've got a week off so that's got gearbox change written all over it, so aim is to strip out the interior, clean up, tidy up the exterior a bit and generally try and get him ready for when self propulsion becomes an option again. Got the drivers seat behind me drying now after I removed and shampooed it this morning.
Did you not want that CD player out? All those magic sliding doors are confusing me:confused:
 
OK another days run at stripping out Scruffbag. Pulled all the interior out so I can see wot rot got.
Shell doesn't look bad: some blistering starting round the drivers side rear arch seam, rot round the seat belt mount although it still seems pretty solid, Passenger side seam clean as a whistle, little bit going on at the inner edge of the sill down by the passenger seat and the tailgate looks completely shot:(


Interior cleaning up OK: Drivers seat before and after. Rear bench 'before', cleaning that is next job.

Andrew.
 
Go on that lad!!

You wont know how bad the rot has set in until you get that blistering away and a good spiked hammer hit into it. But if thats all you have to worry about, excellent!!! That wouldn't take much to plate at all (y)

Good job on the seats. I remember ARG was a hell of a job to clean up :(
 
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