Panda (Classic) My new (old) panda 4x4 sisley project

Excellent; look forward to watching your progress.

Yes excellent please keep us upto date with your progress. To many of these panda's being broken rather than being restored.

Well done and good luck..

Great basis for a project, and at a bargain price, look forward to watching your progress.

you did well getting this one i'll too be watching your progress with it.
the panda is quite an easy car to work with. everything practically bolts on.
have fun and keep posting up lots of pictures

just a quick update guys
as i have no space at my house the panda is at my friend house were work should begin next week with a bit of help from him aswell
the only worry that i have is really finding some spares that are hard to get but ill get my family in italy to look for the parts that i need

now the good news is that the N/S door is solid and with superficial rust and can be saved!
the same cannot be said about the O/S door but luckily the seller gave me a panda door not mint but with a bit of angle grinding is good to be saved too!
i also got 2 marbella doors thrown in, solid but with superficial rust and they are surplus to requirement so if anybody wants them send me a pm and i can send more pics of them
i will be posting more pics next week and looks like the angle grinder is gonna be my best friend for a week or so

When you say "family in Italy" are they the type of family that makes offers you cannot refuse?

Those seat doors will make good spares for Dragon Man if his ever need replacing

cheekylittlescamp said:

When you say "family in Italy" are they the type of family that makes offers you cannot refuse?

Those seat doors will make good spares for Dragon Man if his ever need replacing

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they are not mafia family
i was born and raised in italy and emigrated in uk when i was 17 year old but all my family except my older brother are still over there
i always been an alfa man and finding spares sometime is difficult over here so i always ask my dad to find me something that i cannot find over here

they are different from Dragon Man on the inside as they have the short door fabric like panda ones

Sounds like you could be our "spares in Italy guy"....

all this talk about marbella doors makes me twitch.. ¬_¬

Another new member that's become a donated member so quickly!!

Thanks and well done...

Looks a Good start to the project , Will keep a eye on this

right guys not much is been happening due to the really bad weather that we had up here
the marbella doors have been sold and i bought a new ignition coil, plug leads and distributor cap
car is a non starter and had no voltage from ignition coil hence why i replaced it (see photo)
plug leads and distributor cap were rough and as they are cheap to buy is worth replacing them and one of the leads was broken as i found out
but the panda still refuses to start, there seems not to be any spark
i sprayed easy start but nothing was happening and i also noticed the fuel filter was dry and no fuel was getting in to it
as im used to cars were i plug my laptop and the ecu tells me whats wrong im a bit baffled
if anybody as any suggestion it would be apreciated

Ignition module on the dizzy??

i checked all connection on that and everything seems ok
i may replace all the distributor cap itself?
but that does still not explain the dry fuel filter?

It's not the connection...it's the module itself. Do you know what I mean?? It sits on the dizzy and looks like a big heatsink.

purple haze said:

It's not the connection...it's the module itself. Do you know what I mean?? It sits on the dizzy and looks like a big heatsink.

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yes i know what you mean
im guessing it can only be replaced and not fixed?
do you think i should replace the full distributor or just the module?
also fuel filter dry means fuel pump is gone too?

Fuel pump cheap and easy fix..try using the gravity fed method with a petrol can first to get it running. Yep the module would need changing IF it's duff. One sold last week on eBay cheap..can cost a fair bit or a new one. Or you could dump it all for a old style dizzy set up.

Have you checked you have an ignition feed to the coil? Should just be able to replace the module.

It will take a while for fuel to get pumped up from the tank as it will have all drained back. If the pump is not the best it might struggle to do this so you may need to prime it manually. A good pump should have no problem sucking it through but it will take at least 15 seconds to do so.