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Bought myself a new toy over the weekend. My phone doesn't really do it justice so will get some better pictures soon.

It's a 1983 FIAT 126 652cc Aircooled, with just shy of 31k on the clock. Not a patch of rust to be seen anywhere and the engine is beautiful. Only things needing looked at are the brakes and the choke, but she starts drives and stops which are the 3 most important things in my book (y)

It's provisionally named SR-71 for now. Drove it back from Strichen yesterday (about 1.5hrs) and couldn't stop smiling the full way, was getting looks from everyone!

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I'm sooooooooooooo jealous. Where is the green with envy smilie when you need it. In fact I might bring a sledgehammer at the weekend to Inverness and threaten your car till you give me the 126:D

ps Don't let steve fit spacers to it ;)
 
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Oh, just another point - people were worried about the wheels protruding from the arches ... they don't. Well, they do when no-one is in the car (with a smidgen of negative camber), but because it's leaf springs they straighten up with the extra weight (y)
 
Bit late to post now but she failed the MoT on a front brake imbalance - basically the cylinders were gone and the shoes had perished from the oil. Got new cylinders with the car (cheers Mikey) and bought new shoes from Ricambio (£21.75 delivered) was gonna change them after work today but I can't get the fecking wheel bolts out :(

It's a 19mm bolt but the bore in the wheel must only be about 20mm as the wrench won't go in the slot. There is only about 4-5mm exposed bolt which isn't enough to get a purchase on either. Is there such things as low-profile sockets?
 
Eklipze3k said:
Bit late to post now but she failed the MoT on a front brake imbalance - basically the cylinders were gone and the shoes had perished from the oil. Got new cylinders with the car (cheers Mikey) and bought new shoes from Ricambio (£21.75 delivered) was gonna change them after work today but I can't get the fecking wheel bolts out :(

It's a 19mm bolt but the bore in the wheel must only be about 20mm as the wrench won't go in the slot. There is only about 4-5mm exposed bolt which isn't enough to get a purchase on either. Is there such things as low-profile sockets?
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I have a cheapy 4-16mm set from the range I got it for the smaller sockets. But they all have a very thin wall the 16mm socket has a 1.5mm wall.

I think you will find one try eingineering shops we have one called rothwell engineering they have every tool you can imagine.

Is the 126 imperial being so old or is everything metric?

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It's metric being from the other side of the channel, they never used imperial ;)

I'll have a look around tomorrow. Just annoying 'cos if I can't get this done this week it's gonna mean a full retest next month :(

Edit: Just looked, that kind of thickness would probably just about do it and where the hell are your nails??!1?
 
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£500 :)

Got the bits I needed from Helfrauds yesterday, but was too cold to do anything more than get the wheels off so looks like it's not getting MoT'd this month :rolleyes:

No big issue though, as I couldn't afford to tax it until next month anyway.
 
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