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northy
09-10-2006, 08:08
You carnt beat the great satisfaction of fitting brand new parts to your car guys....especially one that transforms the williams from something that steered like a jelly mould to the pin sharp hot hatch that the car is !

Didnt take me 2 hours as Mr Brown said lol, think i did it in around 5. (do lunner, 2live and Mr Brown have a time machine :winkey:)
The heater duct was the only area that slowed me down as i couldnt work out how it came away from the dash housing on the right hand side...once i had found the snaps it was plain sailing. Only thing i need now is a new nyloc nut for the column to rack as the kit didnt come with one.

The column had a nice new label with the date of manafacture on 01.09.06 :approve: Av it !

I now have the old one (06.1995) which im going to strip down to investigate - I will hopefully be having some new inserts machined to allow people to recondition them soon as 0171's column looks like it isnt far behind NLRG's.

northy
stew
09-10-2006, 08:13
nice one mate.

20min job with a welder tho :wink: hehe

good to get it the way it should be though! 8)
J o n
09-10-2006, 08:33
wooo, well done you big ghey, now organise some fookin meets byatch
2 live
09-10-2006, 08:38
good goin fella..u got the rest of the mot failure sheet repaired yet?
MatBrown
09-10-2006, 10:17
What you fannying about at?
2 hours included a tea break. :P



Mat.
northy
09-10-2006, 10:27
lol, no mot yet, had the abs light to fix (rust stopping the sensor picking up the teeth)

Its booked in for friday now mate !
2 hours if you have done one before....:winkey: How do you withdraw that heater duct without bending it ????
katbloke
09-10-2006, 10:42
2 hours if you have done one before....:winkey: How do you withdraw that heater duct without bending it ????

I didnt bother, just pulled the column out with it in place, i tried but couldnt get the duct out so carried on shoehorning the column in and out
northy
09-10-2006, 10:49
heehee, well i took it out as Mr Brown said on one of his earlier posts.
Could of left it in tbh - but removing the vent and speaker from the pod made acsess easier to learn how it fitted (snap clip top and bottom) that needed opening out !
MatBrown
09-10-2006, 11:19
I'm with Graham, just left it in place.
I just said watch out for the clip that snags onto it, not remove it.



Mat.
northy
09-10-2006, 11:31
heehee No issues either way.

All back together as reno intended :D
richy
09-10-2006, 19:35
good lad! :D
BristolSam16v
09-10-2006, 21:41
Took me just over an hour 8)
VIPERONE
09-10-2006, 21:57
5 hours! were you blindfolded
Daz.
09-10-2006, 22:02
I reckon he stopped half way through to watch Neighbours then flicked over to watch Home and Away :wink:
northy
10-10-2006, 07:58
no i wasnt blindfolded gunner. Just took my time and learned as i went through.

It took me days to refit my wiring loom in the engine bay :winkey:
2 live
10-10-2006, 08:03
days???? :shock:


thats a 10 min job.once the looms laid out it falls pretty much into position lol
northy
10-10-2006, 08:12
heehee - took me a day id say takin my time. U saw me doing half of it lol.

See u on the 3rd mate.
2 live
10-10-2006, 08:13
im expecting some good pass rides......how much as an extra driver??