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  2. sheffieldcortinacentre
    Yep mk3 Granada have them.
  3. pjb1969
    If ever your working in the engine bay and get chance to see the part number on your rad cowling could you let me know please, id love to find a correct cowling for a 2.3.
  4. Stuwindsurf
    That's great, thank you for the info 👍🏻
  5. sheffieldcortinacentre
    Everyone is obsessed with making everything the same now, but it's said it's because no one is willing to try anything new incase it doesn't make more money than last year, god forbid it makes a smaller profit as that means the investors will pull out.
  6. Beeper
    That's like Butlins Pwllheli in north Wales. I had a few very enjoyable holidays there as a kid, even took my at the time, GF/fiance' (that didn't last thankfully) along with my younger sister and her boyfriend there for a day visit back in 87 when I had my awful Mk4. Yearrrrs later, I took my wife, but it's now a Haven site and Jeez what a disappointment?!!! Nothing is free anymore. EVERYTHING is pay pay pay. No fairground, no snooker hall, no roller rink, no train or chairlifts to the beach, which was a struggle for the Mrs who was walking with a stick at the time. Haven took a great camp, filled it with static caravans and turned it into a sh!t camp. I'll never return.
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  8. sheffieldcortinacentre
    Yep used to break it of in chunks . I've not been back since I had to sell our last one in 03, we had three over the 28 years on same site happy memories. I want to remember the place like it was rather than the clone it is now.
  9. Beeper
    I remember when I was about 14, we went to Butlins Skegness and the kettles in the chalets (we went with friends) were totally choked up with lime stone. I can't call it scale because it was like a solid rock inside, covering the element, the base and half way up the sides. We all suffered from mild constipation for the week we were there! The water must have been clogging up our internal plumbing as well!
  10. sheffieldcortinacentre
    Lol seen worse scale. We used to have to take a big bottle of tap water to caravan every time we went ( chapel st Leonard's) as dog wouldn't drink the water full stop down there.
  11. Beeper
    No I didn't, I'll try it again now that I've remembered where my thermometer is! A nice long glass one from work! 88 is stamped on the 'stat, so now I'll have to double check it. It was a bit scaled up, kind of like what you get in a kettle. I know that varies depending on your location, but it wasn't anything like the kettles on the east coast. They look like the inside of Wookie Hole! Our water is pretty soft in this neck of the woods but, I don't know how long that thermostat has been sitting in that engine, and remember, I bought it from Wisbech! Well that's effed that up! I boiled a kettle 'cos I couldn't be bothered waiting for the pan to boil. I poured the boiled water into the pan, turned the ring on full, suspended the thermostat in the water and placed the thermostat, which I've had for years, into the water and CRACK! The bulb on the bottom broke into pieces and there was a nice little blob of silver mercury rolling around in the bottom of the pan! Yes, I should have put it in the cold water and waited but, I'm 60 now and I can't waste what time I have left.
  12. sheffieldcortinacentre
    That amount looks like it's from condensation, you've got decent flow. It shouldn't have jammed stat,was it all gunged up? Did you have a thermometer in pan with stat as you heated it up so you could check temp it opened at ( it should be stamped on it)?
  13. Beeper
    Hi, I'm back again. I took the 'stat out, brought it home and tried it in a pan of boiling water, it eventually opened. Now let's go back a few years, around about the time I put the car away in the lockup I had the radiator re--cored. A year or three (maybe more) afterwards I noticed that the bottom of the rad where the galleries go into the bottom part, was a bit wet. "Great!" I thought, so I bought some radweld stuff and put that in. Now it cured the weeping rad but do you think that maybe it caused the thermostat to stick shut? As I said, it eventually opened in the pan, but not as quick as I expected. This afternoon I went to the lockup with two Ad-Blue containers full of fresh water (didn't take either of my big water fire extinguishers because after inspection, neither of them have a tyre valve on them, so I can't refill and repressure them! So no back flushing today! ) I took the bottom hose off, emptied the block, refitted it and put the housing back on without the 'stat. Filled it with clean water and started it up. Now I don't know if it is the head gasket of not! It's stopped flowing out of the top of the radiator but there are some small bubbles to start with and a little steam out of the tail pipe! I was just going to get a new gasket and take the head off today but I said to myself, "That's a job for another day!" (lazy git) no thermostat.mp4
  14. TIB3300
    I cant remember why I cut this so short? This is something that may not needed to be done
  15. TIB3300
    If you do decide to do it, feel free to use this post to ask questions and I can guide you through it
  16. TIB3300
    One of the thing I had to bodge, was this, as I couldn't find a splined coupler for the bottom on the corsa PAS unit. This is the top part of the UJ that come with the Corsa unit
  17. TIB3300
    Hiya Stu The wiring is easy As far as I know, there are 3 different control types 1 with a little controlled potentiometer 2 one that used GPS 3 This one that uses the force applied to the wheeled potentiometer inside Automatic - Corsa B C - Electric power steering controller Kit - EPAS Kit - OPEL | eBay UK
  18. Stuwindsurf
    Thanks for the updated pics! Nice job! It seems to sit tucked out of the way nicely. I was concerned it would hang down below the dash and look ugly. I have a lathe and a mill so the machine work shouldn't be a problem. So ref wiring it in, could you tell me what was involved? Many thanks Stu
  19. TIB3300
    mounting points Use mounting point B for the main supports , mounting points A and just to hold the head stock
  20. TIB3300
    Here's what I have, as I said I wanted people to be able to do it at home. So after I had to use a lathe I stopped documenting the build sorry. Here is the converted pedal box and an original Cutting off the motor Cutting the original inner shaft
  21. Lotuscops
    Yes looks like they have gone - good luck with the search.
  22. pjb1969

    Mk4 panels

    pjb1969 replied to pjb1969's topic in Wanted

    Ok, let me know please
  23. sheffieldcortinacentre
    Have to double check Got new 4dr rear wing & a pair of 2dr ( gen ford), think I've a headlight panel gen ford, Pair of used doors, Think I've upper & lower valances, Might have a used upper rear panel.
  24. pjb1969

    Mk4 panels

    pjb1969 posted a topic in Wanted

    I thought it worth an ask on here if anyone has any nos gen ford panels for a mk4 saloon to sell me, heres what i need: both rear quarters rear panel drivers wing Upper front panel lower front panel drivers headlight panel both drivers doors a pair of outer sills thanks paul
  25. markymarkthree
    Morning all. I am after an early washer bottle for a Mk3, for a mate down under. Its the non pump version, that slides onto the bracket on the o/s inner wing that i am after. Must a nice one.
  26. J2S

    Mk3 2 dr x 2

    J2S replied to J2S's topic in Members' Cars

    price of diesel my car is now my daily Had worse things 😆 Had a owner of another mk3 GT 2dr visit me weekend looking for some work to be done I said I know the car was on eBay ten ISH year ago and decibed it from the add He swore at me and said I can't believe you remembered it .. Escorts all lined up rubbers catches ect Now doing a dummy fit up off everything Get it back on spit and get painting
  27. Jowjup
    Thanks Lotuscops for your words. Understandable but sad the world has gotten like this. Oh well. The FB post of the struts being sold by your friend does not come up anymore so they must have sold. I'm still looking.
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