De Lorean EuroTec

Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:12 pm**

Cracking job guys, love it..

The chassis really came up well, what colour is that on the powdercoat, silver/ grey ? Looks really well.

Cheers
Shane

Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:44 pm**

Thanks Shane, its RAL9007, the same colour as i had my D chassis done in, its like a light grey with a very subtle metallic fleck in it :thumbsup:

Posted: **Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:49 am**

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Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:47 pm**

I saw one of these on Wheeler Dealers and thought of this thread.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bond-Bug-700 ... SwfChgBJab

BOND BUG 700

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2021 9:59 pm**

Yea i would love one of them, I will update this thread asap

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2021 11:26 pm**

Hi All

Sorry for the gap in posts, work has been continuing on the Supervan, so carrying on from the last post I did, now the chassis is back, I started refurbing all the running gear, starting off with the rear suspension components...

All of the rear leaf springs, brackets and shackles have been cleaned up and painted...

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Next up was the rear axle, this has had a complete strip down with all new sills and home made gaskets as these aren't available, to start with was to get all the years of gunk off it ...

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this is what i had after cleaning ...

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then it was all stripped ...

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and cleaned ...

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New gaskets hand made...

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then the axle was put all back together with new sills and outer bearings, then a good wire brushing...

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then painting...

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this was all then fitted to the chassis along with new Gaz rear shocks ...

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All the other axle components have also been refurbed and all new brakes fitted ...

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I then moved onto the front A frame, this was all galvanised and powdercoated with the chassis but all the components that go on it had to be refurbed, a new king pin was fitted too...