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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:10 pm 
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Here's my Sapphire blue Toledo and a few shots of what iv done since i bought her..

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All of the road wheels have been stripped and repainted (as the car isnt kept at my home i took one home each night to work on)
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Front suspension top and bottom ball joints (some of which were looking just slightly tired!) were replaced with brand new ones.
here are the old ones once off the car..
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and the new ones fitted..
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I was also lucky enough to get hold of some brand new old stock brake drums for the front as the old ones were very pitted.. still in their original boxes and grease coating!
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Under the bonnet, heres a little list:

Oil and filter renewed
air filter renewed
valve clearances adjusted
plug gaps adjusted
fuel filter cleaned out
rocker arm and valve springs cleaned up
carb float chamber cleaned out
fuse box connections and earths all cleaned up
rocker cover removed, stripped and resprayed plus new rocker gasket.
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Iv taken a week off work to give the bodywork some attention, so far i haven got past the drivers sill!
all the rotten metal cut out... (new sill above it)
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all the good metal thats left, ready to be cleaned up and reconstructed..
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 Post subject: Re: 1971 Toledo project
PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:29 pm 
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Good work Andrew. I need to do something similar to the wheels on my Tolly, but they are pretty rusty. I was hoping to have them professionally sand blasted and painted, but now I think I will be trying to do it myself to save on costs.

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 Post subject: Re: 1971 Toledo project
PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:40 pm 
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Thanks Nick!

i would like to have had that done but im on a bit of a tight budget, it just took some hard work with paint stripper and a wire brush and im pleased with the results.
Halfords do a specific wheel silver spray paint which looks to be pretty similar to the factory paint.


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:33 pm 
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It is good to see one of the so called "lesser" models receiving the restoration treatment.
Sapphire is such a smart colour :D !

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 Post subject: Re: 1971 Toledo project
PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:16 am 
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Cheers! im planning on getting it resprayed in the same colour once i get the bodywork in sound condition


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 Post subject: Re: 1971 Toledo project
PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:35 am 
Great work! Great to see yet another Toledo in this section. 8)


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 Post subject: Re: 1971 Toledo project
PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:18 am 
:shock: I'm surprised that it had that much rust. It all seemed very solid when I last saw it and that wasn't long since. Not to worry though; main thing is that you're putting it right now.

There's another pair of front drums on eBay just now and I've a set in my loft as they're Rebel ones too, but always wise to buy such things when you can. :)


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 Post subject: Re: 1971 Toledo project
PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2010 7:00 pm 
:shock: didnt realise that 'Tina' had that much rust, i thought she more solid than that. The mot tester never said anything about rust, and he is a VERY thorough tester


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 Post subject: Re: 1971 Toledo project
PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2010 11:54 pm 
great work nice to see another saphire toledo ,i thought saphire as a colour was only used on m or n prefix ? :D


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 Post subject: Re: 1971 Toledo project
PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 12:55 am 
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m or n prefix...
1994-1996 was a while after production ended. ;-)


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PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 1:59 pm 
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m or n prefix...
1994-1996 was a while after production ended. ;-)

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 Post subject: Re: 1971 Toledo project
PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:35 pm 
ha ha lol i knew what i meant :lol:


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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2010 2:39 pm 
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i really dont know if sapphire was a late or early colour, but the plate under the bonnet says paint code 96.

i really wasnt expecting any more than one or two little patches but after prodding with a screw driver i decided it was best to renew the whole thing. It looks like when the sills were renewed in the past that they left a lot of the rotten original sill inside and welded a new one on top


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i really dont know if sapphire was a late or early colour, but the plate under the bonnet says paint code 96.
Sapphire, paint code 96, is indeed an early colour, used up until c.1974.

I am impressed by the thoroughness of your approach to bodywork repairs.

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 Post subject: Re: 1971 Toledo project
PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2010 9:14 pm 
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What you need is some discs and callipers from my dolly 1300 sub frame...
Don't bother with drums...they are for Marinas...

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