New car! 88 3 door in a fresh looking clean cream shade

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Got the volvo with the big sticker that was on ebay last week.
It's actually very straight minus slight scrape down n/s. panels line up sweetly, straighter than some new, supercharged cars I will mention : jag-u-errrr....

pics to follow, it's in mot station now! (twenny quid mot! what a top garage, chucked it straight in chuffed).

Quite fruitful for 2 hours.

[MCHUDD]

Hi mate.
Lets all see the car.
Cheers Mark.

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Turns out it's actually white.

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Here we go again...

Mean?

Thats a mighty colourful door

Almost a shame to fix this, it's perfect.

Bit runny... It's snowing now.. :/

[trabitom99]

Nice one, congrats!

Cheers

Tom

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I neeeeed a rear torque arm/rod

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It's running very nice, think it needed a run more than anything. Gearbox is sweet as a nut!.

Clutch is very very high... need to check that... hmm a break in the snow

[Speedy88]

Rear torque arm dude - If it was me I'd make my own one out of some bolts and fab it up rather than waiting for it to get posted from Oz.

[Chris_C]

Rear torque arm dude - If it was me I'd make my own one out of some bolts and fab it up rather than waiting for it to get posted from Oz.

Its not that easy dude, there are some fairly special angles in that arm. I'd be taking the one off the car, and ringing superflex myself. With the width of tube and ID of it, I'd be super surprised if they couldn't help out with a set of new bushes for it.

[Speedy88]

Fair enough - you've also raised a good point there. If he removed it and took it for an MOT (it's urgent after all) there would no longer be a problem as it isn't a requirement to have one for the MOT. That's as far as I understand it anyway? Same as for cracks in the windscreen - take the car in without a windscreen.

[L14MNP]

Nylon bar lathed down for the bushes imo.

Nice car mate. 3dr looks good in white. Same interior my old car used to have.

Gonna skid it?

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I already been a *little sideways, this is my fifth 300, Not going to go hurting it, had my fun last year (saab 900t16-tuned up/modded to hell, that car could MOVE! 150mph++ if you have the balls and avoid grenading the gearbox......), this one is not a toy, it's my transport, pride and joy.
Body is so straight it's going to take no time to get to A1. I'd have the arches patched up if it wasn't bloody snowing!

Still, it's in for a specially lenient mot today, Might be legal at dinnertime!

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So, the idea is to chop up a rubber block, press fit to original bar, fit the original inner sheath to that.. super mega glue it together? what adhesive!method for rubber to steel vs heavy duty?

Or I hammer in a bush inc steel carrier that just* fits the hole after burning the old bush out?

Has to be an easy way to do this without spending silly money.

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(or needing a lathe)

I mean I've been joking about needing a small engineering firm 'in hand' to keep a 300 on the road these days... at least I thought it was a joke.. lol?

[Chris_C]

(or needing a lathe)

I mean I've been joking about needing a small engineering firm 'in hand' to keep a 300 on the road these days... at least I thought it was a joke.. lol?

No, it isn't. Most of the parts that are going on the cars are metal, unobtainium, and need to be accurate, not tin snipped and hammered.

A lathe is sensible. Pretend the car is a pre war Austin, then realise you could get more parts for the Austin.