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  1. Have you opened the module to see if it's a simple dry solder causing the issue?
  2. I love it when people get sucked into the rabbit hole of refurbishment. It's an easy trap to fall into It's why my car is taking so long to rebuild. I've just spent 2 weeks just rebuilding the wing mirrors!
  3. I think it clips into the front aluminium bumper bar. https://www.mkivsupra.net/topic/161006-fitting-clock-with-outside-temp/?do=findComment&comment=2260580
  4. There does seem to be a bit of a resurgence in old Supra owners looking to come back into the fold. Maybe because prices have dropped from a few years back?
  5. Good spot. It's not actually part of the magnetic shelf storage, but just lives there when not being used.
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    Welcome to the club Robert.
  7. I then attached the backing plates. These were also cleaned and sprayed with Eastwood Plastic Resurfacer. I was able to just pop these back onto the rivets. I then reattached the clips for the door release. I've used some castrol LM grease to lubricate the handle slide area. I then found the two locks and placed these into the handle, making sure the two little plastic clips overlaped correctly. You can read up on the rebuilding of the locks on page 12. This included purchasing a new drivers lock and changing the keys / pins within the lock to match my car's original key. Installing into the door is relatively straightforward. Just 2 x M6 bolts with a 10mm head. You can see both the bolt hole locations in the next two images. Next was to affix the loom to the door. There are three clips on each side. Although not photographed, there are then two rods from the main door catch mechanism inside the door that must be connected to the handle. The larger of the two connects to the door pull mechanism. The smaller one connects to the barrel mechanism. These are easy to connect up. Finished product.
  8. So I spent today reassembling the handles for the car. These are the main components. The black plastic parts of the handles needed to be cleaned of any overspray. I cleaned them and applied a few coats of Eastwoods Plastic Resurfacer. I then cleaned out the threads for the M6 x 1 threaded bolt holes with a tap. I also cleaned all the ancillary parts in my ultrasonic cleaner. I just used a solution of water and detergent. I then inserted both white plastic handle guides. I then had to install the latch mechanism and spring. This is a little bit challenging, especially if you don't want to scratch the hell out of the newley refurbished parts. I have a set of spare handles, so practiced this a few times on those before committing to these. All the main door handle parts are handed, and labelled as such. I bought some M6 x 3.5 cm clevis pins. I threaded these and cut them down to 3cm to act as replacement pins. I attached these and used loctite thread lock to prevent them from coming undone.
  9. Sad news. A complete pain to now have to deal with. Fingers crossed it is just a fuel / ignition problem and easily fixed.
  10. Trying to sort through this lot is a challenge! I'm not sure many of these plated parts will be used. I just threw in a load of spare toyota nuts, bolts and other bits for good measure. I've no doubt a few will come in handy during the reassembly, probably the M6 body bolts. The proton pack is one of two I have. They came via the Haslab crowd funding platform for the Afterlife movie. They have full light and sound. I've got the PKE and trap on order through the most recent project they've advertised.
  11. Little update. I had a slight delay sorting out another project. James at Retro Roadsports got a load of parts plated for me. I got these back today. I can now advance a number of the sub assemblies.
  12. Excellent news that it now has an MOT, annoying about the vibration. Hopefully it's something relatively straight forward to repair.
  13. Ouch! That really did do a great job of destroying the gears!
  14. Thanks. I've put my glasses on and can see it actually says body and not boot, so that makes sense. Not seen that part damaged before.
  15. Where does that gusset plate go in the boot?
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