Lancia Motor Club
Model Technical and Interest => Fulvia => Topic started by: GlynW on 06 April, 2025, 06:02:02 PM
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Following on from our first Owners Notes (Electrical Systems), Norm Thomas and I have completed a second guide, this time covering our combined experience of Restoring and maintaining our Fulvias. The topics below are covered.
INDEX
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Warning Signs
1.3 Identifying Your Fulvia Coupe
1.4 Routine Maintenance
2.1 Bodywork Inspection
2.2 Subframe
2.3 Critical Areas
2.4 Straightening the Body
2.5 Sills, Subframe Mounting Points and A- and B-Post supports
2.6 Floor Pan and Wheel Arch (Triangular Box)
2.7 Jacking Points
2.8 Subframe Repair
2.9 Non-Critical Areas
3.1 Doors
4.1 Fulvia Suspension
5.1 The Fulvia Dashboard
5.2 Maintenance of the Ignition Switch
6.1 Heating and Cooling Systems
7.1 The Elephants in the Room
Due to limitations on the Filesize of uploads, this has been divided into 3 parts and will be posted below.
Glyn
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Part 2
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& Part 3
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Disclaimer
This Guide is not intended to be comprehensive, being limited to topics where we have some direct, and usually hands-on, experience. Our hope is to encourage owners to get to know their cars and decide which jobs they can tackle safely, without requiring professional assistance. In addition we have tried to restore our cars with their long-term use in mind, rather than simply repairing each fault as necessary. While some of the work described here was prompted by an obvious problem, many hours have been spent removing and restoring other items as they became accessible. This differs from the approaches taken in most commercial restorations which are designed to minimise the time spent fixing a single fault. While the methods described here gave good results on our cars, other cars with different histories may have additional challenges. If so, we would recommend consulting other users and online forums for additional advice before proceeding.
When in doubt, ‘Do No Harm’.
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A great resource. Thanks
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Truly excellent, thank you.
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Magnificent effort guys, am sure it will get well used by all our Fulvia owners!
P
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Brilliant guys, what a huge undertaking! Fantastic resource, thank you
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Truly excellent, thank you.
Thank you, Andrea but we could only have done this by standing on the shoulders of others, including you of course.
I bought my car in Spring 1985, the same time that you published an article in the LMC Journal on 'Brake Master Cylinder Overhaul'. I was given a copy by Peter Gerrish when I bought seals from his company, D&M consultants. Only our ability to take photographs in awkward positions and the development of electronic publishing has changed since then!
Thank you for all the advice you have given the Community over the past 40+ years.
Glyn
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Glyn and Norm, what an amazing thing you have produced! And so professional – well done. I could have benefited from this years ago, and I hope that Fulvia owners now and in the future will do so too.
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I'm half-way through a pretty testing Series 2 HF restoration and these Owner's Notes are truly manna from Heaven!
Gln and Norm - thank you so much. Hugh
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Glyn and I greatly appreciate the positive responses to the handbook - makes the work put into it worthwhile! If anyone struggles with downloading the files, PM me and I can e-mail the one-piece version. Cheers, Norm
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Very much appreciated...... :)
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A fabulous piece of work. This will be an invaluable resource for years to come.
MANY thanks
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Great work Glyn & Norm, much appreciated.
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Very well done from 'cover to cover'. Infinitely better thought out than whoever left the subframe "tooling hole" /raincatcher in the subframe upper face. I love these special publications.
Richard
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what a fantastic document you have put together. I wish I'd had this when I did my car. A brilliant effort. Thank you both