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.
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
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
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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
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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
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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