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Garage / Re: It's not easy being green - 1971 TC
« Last post by Kendo on Today at 01:57:10 PM »That hole under the door looks like the access tot he door hinge pin. Looking up it, does it align with the hinge bobbins in the body?
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I’ve heard of some using pickup truck bed liner in places like under fenders and it can protect the fiberglass from stones.
Hmm, Rear trailing arms and shocks are in place.
Offered up a stock lower link and see that it does NOT naturally align between the trans mount and upright.
Checked the book, no spacer at the upright is shown. So the bushes would be under a lot of twist.
In order to use an adjustable lower link a spacer is required to clear the shock.
My car had short spacers, looks like these will have to be a little longer.
My preference would be no spacers.
But that puts the arm of the lower link at more of an angle and will not clear the SPAX shock.
I will try to get a pic after assembly.
That pedal travel sounds about right Bryan, when I was doing calcs on my system I got 1.49" travel for the standard disc/drum setup with a 0.7" m/cyl.
Ok, that does depend to some extent on what you expect the disc run out/brake shoe travel to be, but it's about there.
Brian
In their first year the Fiat X19 was being flipped at up to $2,000 over retail too.
I nearly bought one.
If I had been able to get a test drive I might have.
Despite several on the lot a test drive was impossible, even just sitting in one was also impossible. Every car in sight was already sold.
My delivery would have been six months out.
No way I was going put down a deposit and make six months of payments without so much as seeing if I fit!
That was on the same day the BMC/Lotus dealer refused to even talk to me.
At least the Fiat dealer was friendly.
So the CT fever is nothing new, just bigger numbers.
In the end they will also lose value quickly, the folk paying substantially over retail will look silly, and life returns to normal.
I think we could have a nice one of every model Europa for less than one CT.