Today I dropped in to ZSpares and bought the bushes that need to be replaced on the front of the car. I ended up buying the D-mount bushes for the sway bar and the steering rack mount bushes. I probably don’t need to replace the steering rack mount bushes, but I think I [...]
View more…Today I focused on getting the engine bay ready so that I can start putting the steering and suspension together again, once they are refreshed. I needed to spend some time cleaning the cross member a bit more as when I did my last clean, I focused more on the gearbox tunnel and [...]
View more…Today I spent the day taking all the assorted components to do with the front suspension and steering off the car. I had soaked most, if not all, of the nuts and bolts with Penetrene a few weeks ago. This helped a lot as all but one nut came off easily. [...]
Now that the engine bay is painted, we shifted our focus back to getting the last of the welding done. There was not much to do, but we wanted to get it done today, as Dad is going to be out of commission for a little while.
We hoisted the car from the front again [...]
View more…The undercoat came out really good. It needed a quick rub down to get some roughness out of it, but was pretty good. I rubbed it back fairly easily and it ended up feeling very smooth. The battery tray came out pretty good too. I bolted the two pieces together [...]