Bognor Lean-to Project

[Mazza]

On your second picture you will see 2 faint lines above the holes, that's where the butyl goes.

Hi Eddie
I seem To have three lines on mine….so is it between the yellow lines or the blue lines????

 

[Eddie Zedder]

Hi Eddie
I seem To have three lines on mine….so is it between the yellow lines or the blue lines????


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Yellow, just above the bolt holes.

 

[Mazza]

Actually did a job on the car today …nothing much but it’s been bugging me every time I go in the garage….

fitted this …

It came off the donor car I had as the one on the 2.8 has the top vent piece missing ( snapped off )

Plus it gave me an excuse to use my nugga gun

So jacked up , wheel off and just pulled the pipe off.

that’s all the difference us… the top bit

One thing I did learn was that there is a sleeve in the pipe where it fits on to the canister..

So as there wasn’t one in the new part I recycled the old one… put it in upside down just to get a better fit.

Once pushed on to the canister

then it clips to the fuel tank

and that was all I did …
but at least it won’t annoy me any more

 

[AntStark]

Only 2 or 3 more years and it will be drivable

 

[Mazza]

A job I wasn’t expecting … have to swap over the boot lid… unfortunately it’s been scratched while in the garage and a small dent.

Luckily I kept the one from the donor car I had so stripped it down today

Need to swap over the lock and also pulled the old wiring out … but remembered to put pull cords in to hopefully make it easier to reinstall the wiring on the car.

The rear boot light on the car is a white one which will be available if anyone wants one.
I’ll stick it on the For Sale section once it’s off.

 

[Mazza]

10 minutes and the damaged one was off the car…..

and about 10 minutes later ….

the replacement in place.

I had forgotten that I had sorted the boot wiring and it all has a spiroband covering for protection…

and with the pull cords made it easy to get back into place.

Bit fiddly getting the lock back in and connecting the rods but eventually all done and lined up ok.

only difference is the boot light is now red ( was white) and I have a Z3 emblem but the 2.8 has gone

 

[Mazza]

but not for long no point having a 2.8 if you don’t advertise it
so a bit of ‘stixall’ and its back

 

[Jam03]

Are you going to be driving this car before Christmas? I would love to see that.

 

[Mazza]

who knows ????

 

[Althulas]

Can’t you swap the boot lights over if you prefer the white cover one?

 

[Mazza]

I could do but it matches the red tail lights. now

 

[Zephyr]

Did you also replace the stop light seal? Nice to do while you are in there. These tend to leak a lot.

 

[Mazza]

No I didn’t need to as I know its fine …
The boot lid came from my donor car and I know it wasn’t leaking
I agree that it’s worth doing while it’s accessible though .

 

[Alan Slade]

No I didn’t need to as I know its fine …
The boot lid came from my donor car and I know it wasn’t leaking
I agree that it’s worth doing while it’s accessible though .

Won’t leak, it never goes out, let alone in the rain.

 

[Zephyr]

This thread needs an update. Hey, Casanova, get back to the project....

 

[rmoconnor41]

No I didn’t need to as I know its fine …
The boot lid came from my donor car and I know it wasn’t leaking
I agree that it’s worth doing while it’s accessible though .

Donor car….there’s a thought. dumping mine as a donor car (with 12 months MOT)

 

[Mazza]

Finally , and after talking to Raymond at Jack Smiths today , I have the roof back in situ.
Just need to order the mastic then , with my new found knowledge, will be able to get it sealed

Then I can refit the interior which is only a days job.