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Renault 11 Turbo Phase 2 Restoration

RIGHT… Let’s get back to this project and finish it off for ‘22!!

Decided I want to get the rear glass back in first, so I can then freely open the boot to finish off the interior re-fit.

Set up my carpeted table and got the rear glass laid out:
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First thing was to remove the old window decals which had SERIOUSLY hardened and faded from the sunlight:
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Little tickle with the heat gun, and they soon came off:
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But of course there was a nice sticky mark remaining, that needed a wipe over with some solvent, to remove:
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I then spent ages cleaning off a load of mastic, that someone had injected into the old window seal… evidently it must have been leaking sometime in the past, so this was the fix someone tried… I guess??

Whilst removing the mastic, I noticed there was a really thick scum-line that had accumulated along the edge of where the seal face touches the glass:
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No-matter what solvent/cleaner I tried, I couldn’t shift it, so I got a bit more serious with it:
Used an old metal polishing pad I had for my angle grinder, and that got it shifted!!! Actually gave the whole glass a little tickle over with this, and it came up a treat!!

With the glass looking a lot better for itself, I pulled out the brand new old stock rear window seal I came by many years ago:

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This is the part number if anyone is looking for one:
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Had to give it a RIGHT wrestle, to get it onto the glass.. it certainly is a tight fit:
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Just laid the glass back onto the car now, I think it’ll be a 2 man job to properly install it as someone will need to hold the glass, whilst someone else is pulling the Para-cord in the car.

Thanks for reading 📖 👍🇫🇷
 
Can’t stop this boy now!!! Went out to the garage again this morning with a view to trying to fit the rear glass, after about 10 mins of studying it, I realised it was never going to happen alone… so sacked it off and looked what else I could do..

Thought I would have a go at fitting the bump strips along the side of the car. It was a job I’d not really wanted to do, as the mouldings were a bit wavy, and I was concerned how good a job I could make of putting them on, because a couple of clips/fastenings had also got broken during the disassembly…. 🤦🏼‍♂️

First to try was the N/S rear qtr moulding:
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Bought some PROPER 3M Moulding tape all the way from the good old 🇺🇸 for this job:
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Gave the back of the moulding a good scrub/degrease and then applied the moulding tape as close to the edges as I dare, without going over the edge:
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I then gave the side of the car, a clean/degrease and took a deep breath, before sticking it on:
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WOW!!! That went well, and was easier than I’d imagined!!! 👍

Buoyed by that, I got stuck into the N/S Door moulding:
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And then stuck the small moulding onto the N/S Wing as well:
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MEGA Chuffed with the results, and can say that this proper 3M Moulding Tape is the DON!! Helped straighten out the wavy moulding so it looks super straight on the car now!!

With all this positivity, I dug out the main side-skirt moulding, and offered it up to see how it looked…
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BLOODY AWESOME is how it looks!!! ❤️❤️❤️ need to get thinking cap on as to how I’m going to fix it onto the new front wing, that doesn’t have the little metal tang welded on from the factory… but I think I’ve found a way with a Rivnut and a modified grub screw… 😉

Thanks for joining me on this ride!!
 
Necessity is the mother of invention!

Today’s job was to finish off the Nearside of the car by fitting the side skirt.

The skirt is held on by some little ‘tangs’ that are welded onto the sills and held by a metal clip on the side skirt, that bite onto those ‘tangs’. My problem was, there were no ‘tangs’ on the new wings I fitted to the car, so I was scratching my head as to what I could do to fix that..? 🤔
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I was thinking that I could perhaps stick the front of the side-skirt onto the car with some of that 3M moulding tape, but after looking at the skirt, there wasn’t enough “meat” there to stick it on… so what can I do???

After a LOT of head scratching, I thought I would give a riv-nut a try, so bought a set complete with the setting tool.

After some thorough measurement, I whipped the wing off, and drilled a hole in the bottom of the wing:
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Then I installed the riv-nut in reverse into the wing, so the threaded portion was sticking out, towards the side skirt:
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I was hoping that the riv-nut would be sticking out enough for the side skirt to bite onto it, but after it was compressed, it wasn’t long enough for the side skirt to reach…
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Balls!!! What now…???

This is where I came up with a sterling idea.. what if…..???
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Yes, I got an M5 Allen Cap Head bolt, and ground the head down on the face of a file held in my vice with my drill (aka Pikey Lathe) until the diameter was small enough to match the shank diameter of the riv-nut. When I got the right diameter, I screwed it into the riv-nut with a bit of thread lock to hold it.

CHUFFED AS F**K with myself for thinking of that!! 😋

So the side skirt was then ready to fit, but then I remembered, I needed to add the rubber seal to the top edge, before I fitted it. After a bit of groping around, I dug out the collection of old seals I had.
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After a bit of scrubbing, scraping, polishing and swearing, I found the best one to use for the Nearside and fitted it to the side skirt, then bobbed the skirt onto the car:
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Absolutely delighted with the final result, everything fits nice and tight as Renault intended.

Even the little side-skirt end-cap (That covers the torsion bar) fits up nicely, with its black TORX fastening:
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Thanks for having a read! 📚
 
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