California, USA to England, here we go!

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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Westy » Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:19 pm

Well this wasn't quite the next day but I thought I should upload something that is worth uploading, anyway :D
I've been relatively busy with the lady:

The engine needed a good going over and as it was in pieces I thought lets make it look like this!

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Took a life age but totally worth it!

Oooo and the pistons for those you who like seeing my lady's bits ;)

Before and after
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Thennnn I removed the gearbox :thumbsup: and wiring etc.
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It really was quite a mission removing the linkages, nearly being crushed by the car etc. haha. And as you can see it was blooming filthy! Annoyingly I forgot go get a photo of it al thoroughly cleaned before I did this

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Allllll, and amazingly minor, rust spots grinded away and treated. Then a lick of stone chip as an undercoat (use as an undercoat is fine)
I was originally only going to redo the minor rust spots but hell, I thought, lets make this look good!
So then came the top coat!

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Yummy! 2nd coat coming soon as it's a bit patchy in person.

That's it for things I've done. But as of yesterday, the March meet which I, very annoyingly, missed because I was ill! :thumbsdown:
My brother took my engine parts for our kind Tony to cast his trained eye over. And it's good news they're all good, so much more to be getting on with now!
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Admin-bloke » Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:04 pm

Keep the pictures coming Tom, it looks like you're doing a great job
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Domi » Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:31 pm

Awesome work on the car, congratulation :thumbsup:
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby A Van » Sun Mar 20, 2016 11:21 pm

Brilliant mate , well done
Like the idea of stonechip undercoat
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Westy » Thu Sep 29, 2016 10:26 pm

Big update coming soon! :D
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Admin-bloke » Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:17 am

I'm looking forward to this!
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby jerzybondov » Fri Sep 30, 2016 9:54 am

+1!
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Chuffingheck » Fri Sep 30, 2016 2:28 pm

Westy wrote:Big update coming soon! :D


With pictures????? :D
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Westy » Sat Oct 01, 2016 9:55 am

Chuffingheck wrote:
Westy wrote:Big update coming soon! :D


With pictures????? :D


Oohhhhh yes indeedy! :dance:
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Re: California, USA to England, here we go!

Postby Westy » Sat Oct 01, 2016 1:33 pm

Its been longer than I thought since I've updated my progress!
Next thing to was to get the whole car up in the air so that I could access everything. And with no lovely car lift, that's always a challenge, but luckily it went spiffingly!

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With her up in the air the next stage was removing........everything. :o

Fuel tank was first in line
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Ohhh.........

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But no sense worrying about this now, that comes later :think: so, onwards!

Tank. Out.
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Cleaning time...........elbow deep. Ha! Too easy!
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Encountered some rust where the fuel tank lives :shock:
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But nothing a grinder couldn't sort out!
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Later will come sort rust treatment, stone chip, weld a new plate, paint and fill, to make it look nice :)

Now for the suspension, lets start with the front
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The front springs were actually both snapped and were just simply clamped together to make them function. But new springs were already on the agenda, so no worries there :thumbsup:

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This entire process is obviously X2, the other side.
So with that all done it was time to do the rear suspension

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Trailing arm removed

And again everything done the same on the other side :thumbsup:

Then I thought it was time to make some bits look good!
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Before and after, yummy!!!

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With some bits now looking damn good it was time to concentrate on the frame
First came the deep clean ready for a full stone chip and full repaint

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Then looking at brothers pristine wheel arches and underbody in general, I decided to do the same

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