New bearings pressed in and rear suspension all built up tonight. 😎
Master cylinder and regulator installed. All new kunifer brake lines made up and fitted with goodridge flexi hoses. And the back end is off the jig for good now!
All ready to start bolting on over the weekend!
A really productive night this evening. Finishing prepping the rest of the running gear and got everything top coated in Anthracite Grey (an old beetle colour that should look awesome with the neptune blue).
My phony Koni steering damper to match the new shocks, complete with Koni decals.
Under strict supervision tonight sanding all the running gear ready for topcoat. Got the torsion bars and steering damper painted too.
Last of the running gear epoxied tonight. Hoping to have it all top coated for the weekend so I can finally start bolting bits back on.
Also got some bits back from the powder coaters; the brake backing plates and all 5 wheels. Shiny shiny!Â
Poole got another good coating of snow this morning. Not enough to stop me getting down to the workshop though in our crappy little Fiesta.
I’ve been putting off repairing the wheel arch on our Fiesta for some months now; I hit a column in a car park which dislodged a chunk of filler that someone plastered over some rot. It’s off for an MOT tomorrow so I couldn’t really put it off anymore. Pretty cold repairing this outside, Before:
And after. I didn’t want to spend long repairing this as I’m not planning on keeping this car for a huge amount of time, so it was very much a ‘fill a hole’ repair, which should do for now:
The ducks were back to keep me company in the cold:
I finished cleaning up the front beam so Zinc primed it, along with some of the brake components (Paracord is perfect for hanging bits to be sprayed on):
New Cali import front beam picked up from Simon at NOSVW just down the road from me. It’s amazingly solid compared to the old one:
He has some lovely buses down there including this little gem:
I’ve started stripping it, nice to see shiny solid metal:
Aiming to get this and the remaining running gear bits epoxied at the weekend, then top coated next week ready to bolt back on. I’ve also started cleaning up some of the brake components for paint:
Front beam is knackered so hoping to pick up a decent Cali import tomorrow to replace it.
