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The 1957 Dope Dauphine
- Thread starter Adey
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Another small win today. Its had additional switches and stuff added for sidelights and the indicators. The indicators i sorted a few days ago so today I decided to take a look at the head light wiring. I was getting poor and inconsistent readings from my multimeter. I had had a read back through my thread and saw that I noted one headlight unit needed some solder, i never got round to doing it...... So I gave it a little blob and one of the sidelights dimly lit and went back out. Tested it all to earth and it was fine but found all the feeds in a junction terminal crusty and rusty. Hit them with some sandpaper to get a good connection and boom all the headlights are working well (as well as 6v can be lol) I now have sidelights, dipped and high beam working 
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I could but what would I gain? some brighter bulbs? i dont and wont be driving in the dark and they would still be yellow anyway so again wouldnt gain much
DaveL485
Staff member
But more voltage means more chance of electrical fire, which will cure the problem of this thing still existingI could but what would I gain? some brighter bulbs? i dont and wont be driving in the dark and they would still be yellow anyway so again wouldnt gain much
As I understand it the por systems , or dinitrol are a convertor from a rust to a paintable material.
The bed paint the Brigsy is using is just a paint. A hard wearing one, but a paint never the less.
So after the above post and seeing steve go to work on the clio I thought I'd have a crack at an area of the car that had alot of surface rust. Its quite common for this to rot through completely mine was just alot of surface grot. In the garage i had a por-15 kit that i purchased years ago for this can and never used it. There was meant to be enough to do the whole underside and the inside so i had plenty. I scraped everything in there with a wire brush to remove any loose paint and metal. Sent the child in to sweep it up. Cleaned it all with the Por-15 Degreaser, washed down, Then prepped with Por-15 Metal Prep, washed down and then i roughly masked up the area to paint with Por-15 Paint. Goes on well and ive put on 2 coats so far. Should add a few more years of protection, the underside was done by the previous owner along with the inside of the car after all the repair work. 
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davemaygtt
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Awesome, got to admit I am really liking this car!
Its a love hate thing, unless you are DaveL who just hates everything rusty and old unless its his own shit heaps lol. Really want to get out and using it, hopefully the numbers are favourable and the restrictions get lifted a little soon
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DaveL485
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youngscottie
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I have an obscene amount of want for this
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