Chris

Prior repairs have help up well considering she been parked with water sitting in her footwell for over 18 months (dam sunroof drains)!

Complete replacement interior to go in next weekend after much precautionary rust prevention and treatment.

She lives!

Found the source of the many, many fuel leaks.

How this never went up I don’t know.

Wait until she’s been stripped, fixed and reborn.

Work starts tomorrow ready for Rustival 4, not moved since Rustival 1.

Thank you, certainly a small world chatting with Neil earlier. 🙂

Finally, she’s home.

My day in 4 pictures. Elan Valley beautiful as always.

It’s horrific. Never used so much screen wash for such short miles

Not bad condition for £30 all round.
Glad I swapped over the 15” wheels from the Partner.

Polished the bonnet on the Berlingo to see what impact it had, in short, none.

Going to military paint it in the Spring. Opting for Poppy red in gloss 🙂

T’Was the night before Christmas.

Fin

Deux Citroën

Previous owner “we had some welding done on the exhaust recently”. The welding…

Some people just shouldn’t. Replacement ordered.

South Wales Air Museum at St Athan for their annual Christmas Fayre. 🙂

After a week of fettle and parts transfer, today was the day for the first run out in the Berlingo.

All round, better drive than the younger Partner, but my god, the DW8 is slow. Yet, I’m really happy.

Also, all of the paint fade you could dream of.

It was a tough, but correct call.

If we hadn’t already rebuilt the engine this year and didn’t have big jobs coming up, rear axel and power steering system, we’d have rebuilt again. But just too much money and too much time has been spent already.

We suspect the high pressure fuel pump, but unsure.

We’ll only look so far as he’ll be sent off for scrap next week. We’re just taking all good quality, usable parts off for the replacement.

So, what led to Wilberts ultimate demise?

Undetected diesel leak contaminated the timing belt, which was only fitted back in July.

Not personally seen one as bad as this before.

After near 5 years with the last one, we couldn’t be without one.
This was a lovely Marketplace find over in Ilminster. Certainly bargains to be found.

Lacquer peel is off the scale, but mechanicals and service history are next level.

Personally, I prefer the DW8 soundtrack too.

Deal done. £350.

Lots of small jobs and thanks to his sacrifice, Wilbert will donate a lot of parts over.

Her name is Poppy.

Phone cradle ✅
Boot full of fluids and tools✅
Cash in wallet ✅
2 hour drive to hopefully collect the next new to me car ✅

#Collectioncaper

Quick look at the crank pulley on Wilbert. That is one chewed belt!

Discussions underway in Casa Evans on whether to brave a 2nd rebuild this year.

In other news, this turned 30 today and is being moved over to the house in 2 weeks for a winter of very much overdue fettle and re-panelling.

Cheers, Martin. Ironically, it happened a month to the day the timing went on the Trekka, which should be finished tomorrow.

Thanks, Ben. Will give it a good look over next weekend, but with a rear axel still to do and other snags, it’s reached that point I think.

What was a £700, 1 year throw away purchase, turned into near 5 years of car events, house move, Alfa part hauls and more tip runs than I can count. 🙂

Terminal I feel. Already replaced the head this year after camshaft chain went. This time it appears to be timing belt, which was replaced in June.

Game over

Sadly, yes. ☹️
BGA belt, which seemed good quality. I’ve the same belt on my Partner and that’s done 4 months and 3k miles so far without issue.

Hoping to get most of the strip down done this weekend to confirm cause and then start identifying what needs replacing, aside from everything.