Got the top off today for the first time this year.

Get the welding done, get any paint that needs doing done. Then shop about for the roof and DIY the fuel gauge. Shouldn't cost too much and ought to make the car worth a few bob and easily saleable.

Keep it. Had a guy around tonight to look at the Charger. He had the hungry look in his eyes that my wife says I get. He said he is going to sleep on it but I am 90% sure he will be turning up tomorrow with the cash.

Fraser

I broke the replacement sender in the same way the original went. but before it broke, the gauge was shwoing always full, instead of always empty. That means gauge trouble it self. That is about half a day removing the dash and disconnecting the vacuum vent controls, but worse, removing the heater valve control rod. I've known people spend weeks trying to get that back on.

Better for you to spend weeks on getting it back on than pay someone else £30 an hour to do it. Take the seats out and give yourself plenty of room.

Your time must be very cheap then :)

--=20 Lordy.UK

Problem isn't the seats. I have removed enough on my old one when I changed the brake servo to=20 know what needs to come out.

Problem is putting it back together. Relocating the rod for the heater valve is about 3 jobs from the end,=20 doesn't matter how much space you have outside the dash, you need to get=20 in behind, after you have put it back together.

--=20 Carl Robson Car PC Build starts again.

Problem is putting it back together. Relocating the rod for the heater valve is about 3 jobs from the end, doesn't matter how much space you have outside the dash, you need to get in behind, after you have put it back together.

Obvious answer is remove the engine, then the firewall and possibly the floorpan. Simple. I don't envy you though :-) Buy a family pack of plasters too.

-- Stuart

It is that kind of job yes. On the hatchback/saloon version it is easiest done through the speaker hole, looking down through the windscreen from the outside.

But the convertible uses a steeper raked taller screen, wheich means you need to have an extra joint in your arm and a long neck, to be able to see down while reaching round the A pillar.

Helper with a mirror?

Nope, because your arm fills the hole where you would look down, unless your outside the car.

The easiest space to work though is the removable cover that cover the

Find a chick with small hands.

Fraser

Buy a bullet cam off ebay, tape it to a length of stiff wire, plug it into a telly. Insert behind dash ? Bingo - your own endoscope. Should help ? No ?

That might actualy be the easiest way tbh. Carry the camera down in my hand as I reach down, then use stiff wire to stop it swinging arround. Bloody expensive way to refit the heater rod though, by the time I've bought the mini telly, and the camera.

Well, I am a student. To be able to pay someone else £30 an hour and it be worth more than your time in pure cash terms, you'd need to be getting paid about £45 an hour I reckon, with taxes the way they are. P'raps even more, as that works out at 90k a year, which is well into supertax territory.

Why do you need to buy a mini telly ? Don't you have a portable at home and an extension lead ? Ok, you might need a helper, but that's almost always going to be the case. Camera -

There's always an inexpensive solution if you look hard enough ;-)

Did I hear someone say 'fee evasion' ;-)

You've got me there Steve. ??

Wire coathanger for fishing camera in behind dashboard. Are you suggesting some sort of nefarious activity ?

Heh.

No - look at the selling prices vs. shipping costs of that particular seller's items.

eg. that camera 99p selling price, 10 quid shipping.

Worse still, the mini camcorder things he's got - 13 quid selling price,

All well and good - but if anything goes wrong, you're stuffed for chargebacks via PayPal - they'll only pay out for the item selling price.

Fiary nuff - all I was trying to show is that these little cameras neeedn't cost a fortune - though the far east sellers do try to rip you right off with that shipping thing you mention.