Nantwich Powder Coating, lovely little place, busy as hell though but that's a good sign. Really hidden away.
https://www.nantwichpowdercoating.co.uk/our-gallery.phpSo onwards and upwards,
One DGO order later, my trailing arm bolts turned up.
Bushes seem fine so a straight swap but look how bent one is...Amazing...
Accumulator hoses also turned up, Before
After
Some updates from Alex, Steel is ordered and if you remember this picture which shows the rot just beginning at the bottom of the box section. Well if you recall I was debating, chassis off or lash with waxoil before biting the bullet.
Well on the inside this is what it looks like with the welded plate removed (its upside down so the top tatty bit below is the bottom of the previous pic)
If you recall this was the plate welded on between the front cross member.
and this is what was under it, you can really see a piss poor design from an allowing the water to drain perspective.
So Alex is really getting to grips with it and taking it back to good metal and has ordered the rest.
I also splashed out on new fuel hoses as its not worth the risk as they are the originals. Interestingly the accumulator hoses were original and looked ok, all the black had perished but the inner hose was still tough. However therein lies the problem, as I pulled and yanked with pliers to get it off the fitting it actually snapped as it was that old and tough and brittle.