martog

As said above. There is a keyway where the splines mate together as it goes into the bearing. Give it all a mega clean up / derust and you should see the gap in the splines. If your going to put a new bearing on the front half, be wary of the Burton Power ones for Cortinas. These have "ears" that are not level to each other though you can use the rubber bit and seal and just transfer it over on to the old housing. Also fit the bearing with the red seal to the rear. See page 11 in my members cars thread. Cortina mk4 build. HTH.

You did well there. I tend to find aftermarket exhausts last about 5 years before they start rotting away at the joints then fall apart. The one on my daily modern-ish car fell apart after 6 years which isn't bad going really. Replaced it now with a Stainless non cat straight through pipe with twin tail pipes.

Hi Craig, not had chance to get to a computer over the last couple of nights. Just wanted to say payment would have come with an address and you sorted it straight away. Wire came today (not bad for 2nd class post eh?) and I'm well happy. Thanks for all your help.

Cheers. Will pay you tomorrow.

Sorted fella. Can you let me know how much posted to the Manchester area and how do you want paying. Cheers, Martyn.

Since the ebay link with the badges has expired now, here's a picture of what the badges I'm after look like. Thanks.

Going to bump this back to the top. Still looking for a pair of these and also the little brown wire that feeds the glove box light if anyone can help. A couple of pictures of the wire below. Thanks for looking.

Mirror wires in behind the dash and routed down each kick panel for now as I'm going to have to take the front doors off to drill the holes to fed the wiring into the doors. This is as far as I got today due to time so here's a shot of the mirror switch ( don't know where I'm going to site this yet ) and the oil feed pipe in the hole for the glove box. More in a couple of weeks.

Bought a proper replica feed pipe from Speedshack that comes with big metal unions and started to fit this to the clocks while they were out of the car. These have angled ends so thought it would be easier to fit the dash end on the bench, then feed the pipe over towards the passenger side of the dash while carefully fitting the clock pod back into the car.

So an update. Pulled the dash out in order to get the wiring in for the mirror feed wires behind the dash and also disconnect the oil feed pipe that is now useless. This is the end which I cannot use because the brass fitting is broke.

Welcome to the forum John. I take it your dads car was a mk2, being 1600cc? It must be good news to hear it still hanging in there in a roundabout way, though I guess the only way to see what it's like after all these years is to dig it up. If anything at least you'll get some momentos. If it was me looking to restore a car I'd be temped to find the bestest rolling bodyshell you could find. South African or Portugal right hand drive cars are always for sale. Unless of course you want to spend the rest of your life welding up a rusty UK wreck. Bodywork is hard work and expensive if you need to farm it out to someone else. Mechanical bits and anything that bolts / screws / clips on is always easier. I wish you luck my friend, let us know how you get on.

Yesterdays antics were: start routing the wires in behind the dashboard for the mirrors, then reassemble the dash back in. Great stuff and going well. Got it all in then came to reattach the oil feed pipe to the fitting on the block only to over tighten the brass fitting and...yep, the sodding thing broke!! AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!! Threw the towel in then, packed up and went home. Thanks for looking and more in a few weeks time. Any questions on anything above feel free to fire away.

Exhaust back box now has it's hanger fettled and is fitted to the car. It ain't any louder though!! Probably because the standard middle silencer is still there rather than the straight through box (if any) you'd have got if you bought the full Peco system. Made a U shape using the round rod then chopped the Cortina rubber hanger off, bent it so that it would marry up to the U section then welded it all up making a couple of small tweaks to the angle and dangle of the bracket so it all fits. Smothered all this with cylinder black paint.

Thank you.

Lets see if they work eh?? And indeed they do. Passenger side one worked straight away, drivers was a bit rusty but I'll clean up the electrical connectors and take it from there. Then it's doors off, drill holes for the loom to pass through and that's another job jobbed. Thanks for looking.