General Seat Panda Terra
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General Seat Panda Terra
Any chance someone could post a pic or two of where the sump bash plate and bull bar fit at the front please?
What a star you are young man
What a star you are young man
I second that...! :worship:
Looks great!!! :slayer:
:woot: looks great! Coming to a muddy hill near you soon
So just how hard can fitting seatbelts be..?
I'm changing the original MK1 floor mounted front belts for the MK2 ones which secure to the mechanism on the seat base.
First off it almost seemed as if the belts were 'sided' in-so-much as the one I fitted on the passenger side wouldn't extend at all until I fitted it on the drivers side where it worked perfectly.
Then the one I found which worked on the passenger side isn't long enough to go around me and clip up.
Either I'm fatter when I sit in that seat rathers than the drivers side or some belts are longer then others.
Any experience with this sort of nonsense.???? Help please:worship:
I'm changing the original MK1 floor mounted front belts for the MK2 ones which secure to the mechanism on the seat base.
First off it almost seemed as if the belts were 'sided' in-so-much as the one I fitted on the passenger side wouldn't extend at all until I fitted it on the drivers side where it worked perfectly.
Then the one I found which worked on the passenger side isn't long enough to go around me and clip up.
Either I'm fatter when I sit in that seat rathers than the drivers side or some belts are longer then others.
Any experience with this sort of nonsense.???? Help please:worship:
hmm i am not sure with this one. my guess is that they are not the same as the marbella type?
as far as i can tell, the marbella ones are about the same as a panda mk 2's belts.
dont think i have ever heard of the mech mounted to the seat base... got a picture?
as far as i can tell, the marbella ones are about the same as a panda mk 2's belts.
dont think i have ever heard of the mech mounted to the seat base... got a picture?
Hurrah; front seat belts fitted in the front...... Fronts are longer than back one th'knows...
I'm discovering all kinds of new things and trying to interpret the little stickers that are on the back of the seatbelt mech.
I'm gonna ask Dan Brown if it is some kind of code....
When I saif the mechanism fitted to the seatbase I meant the belt lock keep thingy of course.. It's a MK2 thing. MK1 belts clip to a stalk bolted the the trans tunnel doofar.
Anyway whatever I mean I have front belts and they do up around even me. Rah:slayer:
I'm discovering all kinds of new things and trying to interpret the little stickers that are on the back of the seatbelt mech.
I'm gonna ask Dan Brown if it is some kind of code....
When I saif the mechanism fitted to the seatbase I meant the belt lock keep thingy of course.. It's a MK2 thing. MK1 belts clip to a stalk bolted the the trans tunnel doofar.
Anyway whatever I mean I have front belts and they do up around even me. Rah:slayer:
ahh ahh yes i understand what you mean now.. my bad... i remember it from the marbella and my 4x4s.
i remember it from the marbella and my 4x4s.
There's some awesome technical terminology in the report, love it
While it might not seem that there has been much going on recently, my one hour per day minimum has actually been reaping some results when if I had any sense at all I would have been under a duvet somewhere rather than crawling around under small foreign vehicle and fabricating obscure parts in the rain and wind.
The reward is that all of a sudden, the 7 hours per week add up, and there are enough bits to actually bolt something onto a car.
So there are several small projects going on right now: one of which is that having availed myself of both a couple of sump guards and a front bull bar, I needed the means to fit them.
For the uninitiated (one of whom is usually me) the mountings for these items are only fitted to 4x4 models and neither my car or van are real 4x4's. In truth they are not even real Fiats; but hopefully we can overlook that small detail.
The 2 items in the pic are front suspension tie bar mounts. The manual actualy sez "Radius rod front connection to body bracket"
Take your choice but this is a 'Tie rod' which happens to mount between the 'Radius rod' and the body.
This isn't a competitition but the more asture viewer will notice that the 2 mounts are different. One is a normal 2WD (2 wheel drive) item and t'other a 4x4 with a mounting plate attached.
And just before we get into this; our mate Pandasport would at this point be itching to inform us all that these 4x4 brackets were actually fitted to a few 2WD models which used them to mount something else but that is a whole other story.
The extra mounting plate is also raised to allow access to the tie bar nut so this is the section I bent up using 2.5mm plate. You will notice that the angles are not 90 degrees.
As is my habit I used a beer carton to make a template to get the position of the threaded holes.
Well not threaded holes at all really. Just nuts welded behind the plate.
Originally these are 8mm nuts but I used 10mm items because I could, I had some and I wanted to.
It is pretty crucial to fix the nuts in the right place, so I loosely mounted them to the bullbar for welding. Remember not tohave the bolt poking through the nut as any welding spatter will get onto this excess thread and prevent the bolts removal.
After lots of measuring and trimming the plate was tacked prior to being measured a couple more times before final welding.
So this is almost finished. I made up two pairs of these brackets. The bullbar will be going on the van while the Panda Terra will get just a sump guard for the time being.
The first pair I made I sprayed 2k black, looked fantastic and are bolted onto one of the cars already.
Also available in red cos I ran out of paint; this pair look hideous
The reward is that all of a sudden, the 7 hours per week add up, and there are enough bits to actually bolt something onto a car.
So there are several small projects going on right now: one of which is that having availed myself of both a couple of sump guards and a front bull bar, I needed the means to fit them.
For the uninitiated (one of whom is usually me) the mountings for these items are only fitted to 4x4 models and neither my car or van are real 4x4's. In truth they are not even real Fiats; but hopefully we can overlook that small detail.
The 2 items in the pic are front suspension tie bar mounts. The manual actualy sez "Radius rod front connection to body bracket"
Take your choice but this is a 'Tie rod' which happens to mount between the 'Radius rod' and the body.
This isn't a competitition but the more asture viewer will notice that the 2 mounts are different. One is a normal 2WD (2 wheel drive) item and t'other a 4x4 with a mounting plate attached.
And just before we get into this; our mate Pandasport would at this point be itching to inform us all that these 4x4 brackets were actually fitted to a few 2WD models which used them to mount something else but that is a whole other story.
The extra mounting plate is also raised to allow access to the tie bar nut so this is the section I bent up using 2.5mm plate. You will notice that the angles are not 90 degrees.
As is my habit I used a beer carton to make a template to get the position of the threaded holes.
Well not threaded holes at all really. Just nuts welded behind the plate.
Originally these are 8mm nuts but I used 10mm items because I could, I had some and I wanted to.
It is pretty crucial to fix the nuts in the right place, so I loosely mounted them to the bullbar for welding. Remember not tohave the bolt poking through the nut as any welding spatter will get onto this excess thread and prevent the bolts removal.
After lots of measuring and trimming the plate was tacked prior to being measured a couple more times before final welding.
So this is almost finished. I made up two pairs of these brackets. The bullbar will be going on the van while the Panda Terra will get just a sump guard for the time being.
The first pair I made I sprayed 2k black, looked fantastic and are bolted onto one of the cars already.
Also available in red cos I ran out of paint; this pair look hideous
I've had my head so far up my Panda I missed out on the last 4 weeks of this haha! Looks like some pretty nice progress!
Is the thing you refer to being fitted to 2wd pandas (and that uses those fittings on the tie rod mount brackets) a fog light mounting bar by any chance?
Is the thing you refer to being fitted to 2wd pandas (and that uses those fittings on the tie rod mount brackets) a fog light mounting bar by any chance?
Bartpanda
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Panda diesel had also the same front suspension tie bar mounts as panda 4x4, because it had also the support beams under the engine{ to strenghten the front,because of the heavy engine} the beams were just the same as on 4x4 but without the transverse beams, just the long ones connecting these mounts with longerons behind the front wheel.
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As always, Im loving the progress Alix!!
Thanks Bart, where do you find these pics. They are priceless
Bartpanda
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Pictures are from "manuale officina panda" I have some workshop data downloaded from the net in PDF format.
me too, me too
This is the little car trying on some new boots
These are the originals. The proper rims are much nicer but I 'LURVE' the big boots. They were the set that 'Liquid Knight' bought for 'Project Peterborough'.
He didn't use them because I bought that as well; so I have a genuine Fiat 4x4 in the pipeline awaiting attention.
Just for the record the big boots are temporarily on a spare set of rims which used to grace 'Purple Ronnie' and the original tyres which were on them are now on some 5" 4x4 rims which I am swopping with 'Bowman' for some he has. Complicated eh...?
Not as complicated as me having a manual tyre changer..... I am, as they say, cream crackered.
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