I now have the last of the brackets back from the powder coaters and all ready to fit! Then its onto finishing off the exhaust tail pipe and bleeding the breaks and then we should be ready for a test drive!!
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The Petrol Pump Challange! I turns out that the petrol pump used on the Cinq is not an easy thing to find and replace! I don’t know if Fiat only used this setup on the Cinq and Sie as I was not able to find a new one and it seems the setup is not used on other Fiat models of the same year. The lower bowl that holds the pump is offset from the top to allow the fuel sender to fit next to it. I could find quite a few secondhand ones but nothing new, so it was…
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This week i got the new calipers, so it was time to get the front brakes all sorted out. I struggled to find the callipers as they are 2 parts, the calliper and the carrier and loads of places sell the calliper but not the carrier. But after a bit of searching, I found a complete set on eBay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/genuineaudivwparts) and it looks like he also does some other Fiat stuff as well as I saw the rear pistons on his listing. I got all the bits out and started to fit them and then realised I didn’t have the…
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I borrowed a Karcher wet vac and as the weather was so nice on Saturday it was time to clean the seats, and anything else covered in cloth once I got going 🙂 As soon as I have the interior all fitted back in I will take some pics.
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Now i have everything back from the powder coaters its time to get those parts and all the nice shiny new parts fitted back on the car and get the little yellow box back down on its wheels!!
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All the parts have now been collected from the powder coaters and WOW what an amazing job APR Powder Coating have done! These look so good and have an original factory finish to them, but a 100 times better than the old Italian’s did originally. Time to get them fitted back on.
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All the main parts that needed powder coating have been packed up and sent off to APR powder coating in Waterlouville. I will post some pics when they all come back nice and shiny!
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Today i finally managed to get the rear bumper off! What a job it was. The bots holding the bumper to the brackets were so corroded and hard to get to that I had to cut them off with the grinder! I did think that I would just buy some new bumper brackets but man is it hard to find Fiat parts!! Lots of searching and no luck! I think I will see if the Fiat dealer can give me the part number and if they were used on other models also, as searching just for the Cinq seems like…
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As the weather was nice and mild and sunny today I thought I should get to work on removing the rear suspension ready for stripping as then I can get it off to be blasted and powder coated. Luckily after a soak with some WD40 all the bolts came out nice and easy apart from one that holds the petrol tank in. I will have to get the car up a bit higher to get this one out but I now have all the suspension off and ready to pull apart on the next sunny day 🙂
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When i originally bought the Chinq and had the Abarth kit fitted I wanted it to be exactly like Fiat had intended it so I purchased the Stil Auto Starlet wheels that Fiat used if you had bought it as supplied by them. Luckily the wheels were in pretty good condition but as I’m refurbing the car back to original like when it was new I had the wheels refurbished and the closest tyres I could get to the original ones fitted. Rotalla 165/55R13 ROTALLA RH02 70H and some nice Abarth centre caps like the original ones!
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