Rear seat belts in a Lamborghini Urraco

Thought about it, measured up and worked out where to fit rear seat belts (lap belts) on the Urraco. Drilled a whole through the side of the center tunnel (first one was too high) which is used for the buckle end with a plate on the rear in the tunnel. 

Outer part of the belt with the tongue bolted through the rear floor at the corners again with a plate on the back. 

The belt pulls up between the seat base and side panels and the buckles pop through a gap between the center pad and rear trim. Feels that much safer for the kids now. 

I used standard Securon 210 real static lap belts.

Lamborghini Urraco rear floor rust proofing

Decided to tackle the ugly (but solid) rear floor area. As you may know it has the at factory sound deadening material and then insulation on it. The original tar material has lifted around its edges so it needed to come off. It's hard and brittle so chipped off quite easily.

The floor is solid with a little surface rust from moisture where the tar was not. Cleaned up now and painted with rust converter paint then waxed around the seams. Also waxed inside the chassis floor cross box section that separates front floor from rear. The car will never see rain or damp again so that's how it will be now forever - next job is the other side then the front floor areas.

OEM style door mirrors for the Lamborghini Urraco

The car only had one door mirror when I bought it and I really needed one on both sides for maneuvering in my garage and generally visibility given the large louver system engine cover at the rear reduced rear view field.

I found these mirror on ebay from a seller in Taiwan http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170994521699 and have to say that for the price (less than £20 for the pair! + shipping) are really good value for money and look correct on the car. Shipping was quick and secure - thanks "cubepai"

Rust proofing the Lamborghini Urraco P250S

Pulled the front chrome bumpers off to take a look around. The bumpers had been re-chromed in recent years and looked good, but had not been protected behind and were on "the turn" do I gave the whole rear of the bumper pieces a serious coating of Waxoyl then all back together.

I also cleaned out the front valance areas under the lights and gave the body panels in there a good coating of wax too.

Urraco door panel repair

Pulled a door card to take a look and found a messy but functional repair on the center section.

It's taken beating from the door pull handle over nearly 40 years. I've found these panels tend to be made from ABS and so I removed the metal repair, neatened up the hole and cut a piece to fit. Then use plumbers solvent to glue it in properly and permanently as well as strengthening up some other cracks in the panel. Glued the alcantara trim back on with contact adhesive and all was good as new for another 40 years 

Lamborghini Urraco radiator fan wiring

Next job was to start looking at the wiring. It bugs me when PO's (over the last nearly 40 years!) botch things and change from stock wiring so started to go through the fuse box connections and found a whole load of discrepancies with the official diagram and the connections in my car. Mainly to do with fuses 2,3,4.

The fuse box and wires nearby had all be coated with black underseal, so this had to come off to reveal the true colours Now I have the stock auto + manual fan setup and the wiring is neater.

The manual said that the switch on the dash board should control one of the cooling fans whilst the other one was automatic from the temp switch on the radiator.

When I looked into it both fans had been wired from the temp switch and so I removed all the extra wiring, located the original wires and returned it all back to stock.

Lamborghini Urraco Front suspension

Under this front arch looks pretty good. Heavy underseal, but appears to be ok although I'll work on these over the coming years to check for rust and remedy. The front end of these cars suffer from rust around the lower edges of the front arches, and front valance - I suspect they will need repairs in due course to bring them up to my standards :)

Suspension, hub carrier and brakes need a detail so I'll be stripping this lot down to clean and paint. That's a simple nut and bolt job and quite satisfying. You can see that the rubber dust gaiter is split so that will need replacing and can be bought from http://www.eurospares.co.uk/searchResult_one.asp?S=005108120&TM=2&TMo=504&TA=1&TB=28432www.eurospares.co.uk