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Renault 11 Turbo Phase 2 Restoration

Looking Really Good Steve,

A Personal hate of mine is when they paint or coat parts that you never asked them to do!

Radiators usually, as the finish is so poor!

Hope the Epoxy works out OK, personally not a fan of using anything inside a fuel tank.
 
Possibly look to include check / replace of the fuel filter as part of yearly once over for piece of mind. Sure it will be fine :)

In a few years stick a camera in the tank to check condition if still concerned

Now get the rest of it together, im coming round for the fire up test 8-|8-|8-|
 
:ireful2.gif: FOOKIN HELL!!! :ireful2.gif:

Fitted the complete braking system today with pads and fluid and everything was going well until I spotted this...



Got to send the bloody thing back to BiggRed now and get them to sort it. P1ssed that I got all the callipers refurbished ages ago and now here I am wanting to use them and they bloody leak... 🤦🏼‍♂️
 
Yeah that's a bummer. Where did you get the calipers from? edit: Oh, I see, biggred.

Still, better to find it now than later and have it flick brake fluid everywhere!
 
btw, here are some pictures of some refurb calipers I got refurbed by Biggred (albeit about 15 years ago) when I finally took them apart to find out why they kept sticking no matter what.

Yep, both the piston bores and the slider tube bores had been grit blasted. The actual slider tubes had also been blasted. They've probably worked out by now that you shouldn't blast any of these sliding surfaces?

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btw, here are some pictures of some refurb calipers I got refurbed by Biggred (albeit about 15 years ago) when I finally took them apart to find out why they kept sticking no matter what.

Yep, both the piston bores and the slider tube bores had been grit blasted. The actual slider tubes had also been blasted. They've probably worked out by now that you shouldn't blast any of these sliding surfaces?

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Hmmmm..... further deepening my suspicions...
 
Great work as always .
Must be proper piss off . The momentum was flying along, regular up dates with lots of progress making the rest of us look like amateurs, and the a job you didn’t do your self let’s you down, buy two new ones and be done with it . I don’t know about any one else but Have not had great success with refurbished rear callipers on Renaults .
 
Rebuilt/refurbed hydraulics always a lottery, I've rebuilt masters, calipers, wheel cylinders etc with no new seals and they're still going strong, other stuff looked bob on and had new seals etc and leaked like a grannies bladder......
Bigg red seem to be a bit hit and miss, although the rebuild kits I've had have always been fine.
 
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