Congratulations!!!! Really pleased for your success and I thank you for sharing with me. Love & best wishes from Australia 🇦🇺 Your videos are nicely produced. I’ll definitely be sticking around.
Janky do Thanky! Boy the X1/9 community in Australia is fervent! I appreciate all the love, just shows me how passionate folks are about the X and continues to validate my choice in getting one, (not that I needed one, it was love at first sight) even through the process of nursing it back to health. plenty more to come and again janky do thanky
Congratulations on your first drive. It's a huge milestone that helps motivate us when we're under the car with crud falling in our eyes. You really collect toilets? I didn't know that was a thing, lol.
Janky do thanky! so motivating and inspiring indeed. Haha, yes I have a bit of a toilet hoarding problem. I was painting them decoratively (and actually got some commissions if you can believe that) but about to begin roll-out of a fully flushable model with heavier duty paint.
Congratulations! And YES, you get it! The driver's connection to these cars is very much on a (as you aptly said) visceral level.....it just makes you feel good! Regarding the fuel pump, the Bosch pump supplied as original equipment on the FI cars had a pump mechanism identical to many others they supplied to other auto manufacturers, the specification that made the particular Bosch part number exclusive to FIAT (and later Bertone) X1/9 is that Bosch fitted them with male spade lugs to match the power and ground leads on the car's wiring harness. As the cars aged and went out of service, there was less and less demand for this specific part number, so when Bosch consolidated their aftermarket offerings, they dropped the FIAT-specific part number from the catalog and instead supplied the pump (which as stated is identical across many auto manufacturers) with threaded studs for the electrical connection, and supplied a pair of ring terminals so the existing OEM harness's female spade connectors could be cut off and the ring terminals substituted. Which as you noted is what you did. An alternative that lets you keep the OEM wiring harness intact are ring-to-spade adapters www.te.com/usa-en/product-141879-1.html , which Bosch really should have supplied with the replacement pump. BTW, what's your user name on XWeb? I'll send you a PM to say Hi.
wow, could have kept it stock for only .39! That is very cool to know thanks for that, the depth of detail that the community knows about this car is so cool to me. Yea Scott came up with that solution, I was doin it a little too janky so I'm glad we got it resolved. Yea drive was great! Hopefully having some welding work done on exhaust as we speak (I really need to take welding classes, hard to find anyone around here) and hoping that will make it pass inspection, altho clutch is still being problematic so was hoping to do a bit more driving before diving in again but we shall see. Loving the journey, janky do thanky. Oh on xWeb I'm Beef_Janky - and thanks for bringing that up I really wanted to do another follow up post to the thread I created to thank everyone again and show some of scott's work on the brown wire mod so I'll try to head over there soon and do that.
wow sounds like an even greater deal than mine! congrats on finding one so cheap, hope you have it up and running soon, can't wait till the snow melts here so I can keep making progress on mine. janky do thanky
Well it's a 1974 head gasket is good just needs a new timing belt and carb but I think I'm going to go with the Holley sniper EFI lol and I ended up taking him down to $ 400. No rust anywhere but under the chrome trim on the back just a few pin holes
Congratulations!!!! Really pleased for your success and I thank you for sharing with me. Love & best wishes from Australia 🇦🇺
Your videos are nicely produced. I’ll definitely be sticking around.
Janky do Thanky! Boy the X1/9 community in Australia is fervent! I appreciate all the love, just shows me how passionate folks are about the X and continues to validate my choice in getting one, (not that I needed one, it was love at first sight) even through the process of nursing it back to health. plenty more to come and again janky do thanky
Congratulations on your first drive. It's a huge milestone that helps motivate us when we're under the car with crud falling in our eyes. You really collect toilets? I didn't know that was a thing, lol.
Janky do thanky! so motivating and inspiring indeed. Haha, yes I have a bit of a toilet hoarding problem. I was painting them decoratively (and actually got some commissions if you can believe that) but about to begin roll-out of a fully flushable model with heavier duty paint.
Congratulations! And YES, you get it! The driver's connection to these cars is very much on a (as you aptly said) visceral level.....it just makes you feel good!
Regarding the fuel pump, the Bosch pump supplied as original equipment on the FI cars had a pump mechanism identical to many others they supplied to other auto manufacturers, the specification that made the particular Bosch part number exclusive to FIAT (and later Bertone) X1/9 is that Bosch fitted them with male spade lugs to match the power and ground leads on the car's wiring harness. As the cars aged and went out of service, there was less and less demand for this specific part number, so when Bosch consolidated their aftermarket offerings, they dropped the FIAT-specific part number from the catalog and instead supplied the pump (which as stated is identical across many auto manufacturers) with threaded studs for the electrical connection, and supplied a pair of ring terminals so the existing OEM harness's female spade connectors could be cut off and the ring terminals substituted. Which as you noted is what you did. An alternative that lets you keep the OEM wiring harness intact are ring-to-spade adapters www.te.com/usa-en/product-141879-1.html , which Bosch really should have supplied with the replacement pump.
BTW, what's your user name on XWeb? I'll send you a PM to say Hi.
wow, could have kept it stock for only .39! That is very cool to know thanks for that, the depth of detail that the community knows about this car is so cool to me. Yea Scott came up with that solution, I was doin it a little too janky so I'm glad we got it resolved. Yea drive was great! Hopefully having some welding work done on exhaust as we speak (I really need to take welding classes, hard to find anyone around here) and hoping that will make it pass inspection, altho clutch is still being problematic so was hoping to do a bit more driving before diving in again but we shall see. Loving the journey, janky do thanky.
Oh on xWeb I'm Beef_Janky - and thanks for bringing that up I really wanted to do another follow up post to the thread I created to thank everyone again and show some of scott's work on the brown wire mod so I'll try to head over there soon and do that.
Just purchased one in a little darker green for $500 just needs a $40head gasket! 🤌Fix it again Tony 🤣
wow sounds like an even greater deal than mine! congrats on finding one so cheap, hope you have it up and running soon, can't wait till the snow melts here so I can keep making progress on mine. janky do thanky
Well it's a 1974 head gasket is good just needs a new timing belt and carb but I think I'm going to go with the Holley sniper EFI lol and I ended up taking him down to $ 400. No rust anywhere but under the chrome trim on the back just a few pin holes
@@ZERO-zg4fy wow sounds like you got a steal. The early cars are really sought after too. Would love to hear how you progress on your X!
@@JankyAF I'll keep you updated
Best inexpensive street legal go cart ever! (has to add inexpensive because of the ariel atom) :) xweb does rock great group of people!
haha i would love to drive an atom at least once but yea could probably get 2 or 3 more X's for the price! janky do thanky