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I reckon swapping an engine or gearbox, a cheapy impact saves you about an hour on the driveway vs hand tools (not to mention keeps your arms strong for the duration)
I've had this one for a good few years, so do a couple of mates. Plenty good enough for the odd day on the driveway:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HEAVY-DUTY-24V-1-2-DRIVE-CORDLESS-IMPACT-WRENCH-RATCHET-2-BATTERIES/222408523829
You get the odd bolt on a Clio it won't undo, but not many. Rear...
So, New Years. Out until 5:30. Up at 7:30 to drive to Herts and collect the below:
Had an amazing result with it, basically got everything from a donor car of the same age, so needs nothing but about 6 wires connecting loom-wise, a new prop shaft bearing and fluids.
Other parts wise...
Could you not pour some petrol down the plug holes, let that sit for a while to dissolve/soften the rust? Then plugs out to let it evaporate?
@Scrooge is my pikey thinking possible?
Do you have all the originals? If not, i have 2x buckets worth of bolts from Clio's i've broken in the past. All rusty as eff and would need a clean up, but free to collect from Chertsey.
A few pics. People like pics.
Pre-bump above.
Bump one, repaired by @Saner:
As it arrived to me:
Now the sad point is that it's been bumped. The value of a car like this and in it's future is in it's originality, of which, none of the front will remain, lol. So, I have no...
Long term thread bump, seeing a couple of the old resto threads on here have spurred me into getting this done.
So the old girl ended up being bumped on the drivers side rear corner, and I bought it from @Saner.
It's sat on my driveway for the last year/18 months, but looks like it's picking...
See, what i now don't get about these kind of things. Surely now these are the 'in' thing to invest in, means there must be hundreds or thousands of people inventing their own currencies and letting people invest in them?