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 Post subject: Dolomite 1500 rebuild..
PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 11:26 am 
Hello, I am 18 and i have recently bought a dolomite for £350 to rebuild and use as an everyday car, just looking for any ideas of how to go about it all.

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Last edited by Heppage on Tue May 07, 2013 9:09 am, edited 1 time in total.
re-sized images. Now hosted by Imgur


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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 11:40 am 
That looks great...! You've certainly come to the right place for friendly advice and as much help as you could ever wish for.

One little thing though, do try and get those images squeezed down a tad so we can see your Dolomite in all its glory on the screen!!!


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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 11:41 am 
Where abouts in the world are you?


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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 7:05 pm 
Any chance you can reduce the image sizes please?


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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 11:08 pm 
What's wrong with it?


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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2013 12:37 am 
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Where abouts in the world are you?
I live in Scarborough. North Yorkshire.


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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2013 12:41 am 
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What's wrong with it?
Nothing major, the only thing was the syncros on first and second are a little weak, but hopefully taking it into college to make sure that is it the syncros because I was reading about it in the haynes manual and it says that it could be the bearing but hopefully finding out in the next week or two.


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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2013 9:11 am 
I have resized your images, they are now hosted by an external host (Imgur).

Hope this is okay with you?

If you could post pictures here in a smaller format it would be greatly appreciated by everyone. Thanks.


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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2013 5:38 pm 
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I have resized your images, they are now hosted by an external host (Imgur).

Hope this is okay with you?

If you could post pictures here in a smaller format it would be greatly appreciated by everyone. Thanks.
Thank you very much for doing this for me, it does look alot better now so thank you.


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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2013 6:46 pm 
id like to see this car done as I used to own it I sold it to a guy from Yorkshire with the engine in bits I also bought the car from a member on here and drove the car back to kent


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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2013 6:55 pm 
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id like to see this car done as I used to own it I sold it to a guy from Yorkshire with the engine in bits I also bought the car from a member on here and drove the car back to kent
Did you actually own this exact car?


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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:08 pm 
yes this car


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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2013 7:12 pm 
I have started to correct some cheaply done body work by sanding it down and smoothing it out..

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I couldn't do much else today as had college so this is what it ended looking like after a quite coat of primer.

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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2013 8:06 pm 
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Hello. Welcome to the forum. Your Dolomite looks very solid, so will hopefully make a good car for you.

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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2013 9:47 pm 
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Hello. Welcome to the forum. Your Dolomite looks very solid, so will hopefully make a good car for you.
Thank you for the kind welcoming, it is very appreciated. I was really surprised about how solid it was when i went to look at it with my dad, especially for the price we paid.

I can't wait to finally get this back on the road and start adding more and more to it. She should end up like a beauty in the end.


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