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That's cute, a little baby rust, easy fix. Get on with it :D If you wanna see proper rust have a look at my R21 thread lol

Got a bit over-excited / ambitious and decided to deal with the rear slam panel thats been rotten as s**t since the day I bought it in 2002. I picked up a new panel to replace it probably 8 or 9 years ago and never did anything with it, so I thought feck it, why not...

After consideration, because this runs 2 lines from the master to the rear, so not that simple and you wouldnt want two manual valves at the back on the separate lines. Looks like i'll have to retrofit something as I havent found a new bias valve or rebuild kit yet.

The rear bias compensator isn't looking too hot! Out it comes So this is going to need a replacement or a rebuild lol Might just fit a manual load valve, or, just hoof a t-piece in there. The rear brakes are shoes so its not exactly going to be locking up every time I touch the pedal!

Speaking of the car, I did some more work in prep for the axle refit, in doing so I found a lovely hole around the filler neck buried under 30 years of mud and grot I cut away the mangy bits and then treated the inside with Bilt Hamber. Considering the amount of hassle i've had with welding...

A little research into the handbrake cables revealed they are routed through the axle so I had to drop the hubs off to route them in and through the back casing Easy enough, back together again and made up a brake line too Dropped the other back plate off, routed the handbrake cable and...

I managed to squeeze in about 2 hours in the garage over the entire 4-day BH weekend, so I did a bit of tidying and a little bit on the axle. Decided to redo the thread/nut on the handbrake mechanism, as I didnt want to weld the nut on, so I drilled through the spring holder thing and bolted it...

There's a myriad of tales like that on the web, including the woman that had a low oil warning, so refilled the engine with oil. All the way. To the oil filler cap

....besides the choke pull will still be there for my handbag anyway ???

Mate, i'm 41 years old, I only have (assuming I make it to average life expectancy) about 360,000 hours left to live. I do not want to waste any of those trying to cold start/hot start/set idle/set mixtures/generally f**king about with 40 year old carb technology when for a fairly low amount of...

Yes mate the 9 or 11 Phase 2 disc axle or the Renault 19 disc axle is a straight swap with associated ancilliaries, but I decided I wanted to keep the original hubs and a decent handbrake. This will never be a balls out performance car, just an old skool cool motor that you dont see around any...

I had to punch the pin out, then tap a thread on it and fix it in with a nut - I was fecked if I was hunting down the EXACT right shoe or EXACT right fitting pin Once i'm sure it's all right i'll dab a bit of weld in the middle of that nut to make sure it doesn't drop off. I sized it up on...

Sunday I had the 'chore' of a round trip to south wales to pick up a Megane 225 package to dump in my 197. Hmmm.... it would be fun, wouldn't it? Anyway, once that was done I did a bit of the back axle, wizzed a knotted grinder wheel over the hubs Dusty! Coated with bilt and left to...

Started prepping the new tank I got from Big Steve, as it had some surface rust. Quick squizz with a wire wheel and treated with bilt. Thats better. I'll paint it too but first I need to make sure the inside is clean and treat the little bits of surface rust inside....problem...

I thought V6 YEP was on an Acid Yellow phase 2.... what colour was the car you saw? YAY was won in a raffle for the cost of a £17.50 ticket Raffle link: Owner on the V6 forum

This.

If you fancy a good nerd session the posts from "PumaRacing" on this thread are very interesting. Bit of reading for your next lunchbreak/skive/poop :D https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=66&t=1087429

Going back a few years but i'm pretty sure I read some research on this and it was determined that there was no benefit in a port, and that dimples only work on a golf ball because they create a thin turbulent layer of air that clings to the ball's surface allowing the smoothly flowing air to...

"For sale: Brake shoes and wheel cylinders for a Renault something but not a 9 Turbo. £100 the lot" :D

Slightly irrelevant but I was forced to go to Cadbury World (not so much a novelty when you work for Cadbury in Bournville) and amused myself with some chocolate art. Then some parts arrived, not usually worth posting but i'm loving the retro/old skool boxes lol :D Asbestos free! So...

Oh...yeah, the rear axle is on hold because both the wheel cylinders are wrong (bolt spacing wrong) and the handbrake shoes are wrong (right diameter, wrong fittings in the metal shoe body) F**ks sake! Stupid old cars and idiot ebay listings. I mean, I'm grateful new stuff is still available I...

I'm sorry at what point above did I indicate that I have a budget big enough to run Kerry Katona's coke habit? :D Just messing mate. It's do-able of course but the payback isn't there to make it worth while. I've done enough research for R21 parts to know that scanning and compiling digital...

Movement on two long term avenues of investigation this week. Hardly worth an update you might think but when it's taken me literally months - almost a year in the second case - to get to a point where I have confirmed orders in transit the excitement gets a bit much lol I have sourced some...

I'll tell you why this can't happen. It's because I would end up spending all my holiday money on a Renault 9 non rusty drivable heap, fill it with bits, send her and the kids home on the Plane and drive myself back with my stash of goodies. Well I currently have a grille and 2 back lights...

Will do, thanks!

Mate, I have a Clio V6, which is s**t to get parts for BUT as long as you are prepared to pay (and I mean eye watering money) most stuff is gettable. I also have a Renault 21 Turbo Quadra which is a real struggle now, new stuff is mostly gone. Then...the 9 Turbo. I'm currently about to pay a...

Well, you know, I didn't buy one to leave it unused in a cupboard :D Bilt Hamber Hydrate 80 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bilt-Hamber-Hydrate-80-Rust-Killer-Barrier-System-500ml-bottle/181191937689?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

To refit the mounts to the axle I went with an M10 threaded bar to pull the stud in, like so In the end it wasn't man enough and stripped the nut thread at the point shown below, so i dug out some fine pitch M12 stud I had made to long-stud a 21 Turbo block many moons ago and used that, and...

Saturday I treated the inside of the box where the bottom of the axle mount had rotted away Then I painted the axle black, and while I did it had a good old think about how to handle the refitting of the bushes (Yes, continuity error here as the bushes are already in, get over it :P ) I...

Hahaha this is cute, give it another ten years and see how much the few and far between new bits are going for. Hoard now, stash it away, believe me.