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Yep get the Bigg Red kit, FYI they are loads cheaper on eBay than on their site

I've just done my 172 rears, easy and like @jamesBsaid leave the handbrake seals alone except for the covering boot

I'm in the middle of an underside restoration (car is still on the axle stands after all the wind!) Where I've had to get back to bare metal I've coated with 2x hydrate 80, 2x electrox and was going to finish this off with Dynax UB. Will this be sufficiently robust or should I be putting a stone...

Yeah I'd say mine is similar to be fair, I panicked I think! There is a nasty bit up high where the tunnel for the exhaust and handbrake cables run but I'll need to get the tank out for that.

I could have cried when I scraped back the first bit of underseal

That's a lot you've got done there, how does my corrosion compare to yours?

Opened this can of worms....

Yep drives me mad

Also why do people always lie body panels on rough tarmac when trying to sell them as mint?

Not found one in flame red close by as yet, I might consider looking for any colour and getting it sprayed when I get the front bumper done. Having said that I'd travel for a good flamer bonnet but being on south wales border they never come up close by.

Has anyone used Ren Breakers on Ebay? I'm tempted by a bonnet they are selling. Delivery of a bonnet seems risky but they are offering it

Is that the rear disc spacer sat on the floor?

I will, I've done more to it than any of my previous 1*2s even though it's by far the untidiest. Fingers crossed on the mounts🤞

Great progress with these, I must pull my finger out and get the beam off. I replaced the OS handbrake cable which i found had corroded while replacing the caliper seals. The shell rust where the beam mounts looks a little bit worse than I had hoped for, that and the few bits of dodgy bodywork...

Hows this all progressing, I've done mine all a bit backwards having just overhauled the rear calipers and fitted hub spacers. I'm just waiting for lighter evenings to get the beam off and tackle the rust on the shell where it mounts, fingers crossed it's not gone too far

Replaced the OS handbrake cable, I can confirm that the Pagid ones listed for ph2 172s from ECP fit perfectly.

Just when I thought I'd decided which to get, thanks though.

A minor leak is a result!

I got mine done by a local woman who does wheel refurbs which makes complaining more difficult than if I'd gone to a big firm.

I've just had the same issue with my freshly powdercoated wheels, quite annoying really as two have had to go back for different reasons.

NLA according to my local Renault

I left one over night in deox gel after a wire brushing but it barely touched them. Hydrate 80 was my next plan

What's the flat connecting bar that connects the sliders on the rear calipers called (yoke?) and what is its purpose? Mine are pretty rusted, are they still a available?

Thanks I'd looked at similar ones to those but got my usual indecision, I regularly find myself needing to do bits of plumbing to fit kitchens but have used either compression or push fit so it might be a better idea to get the more capable one. Soldered joints not only look better but are...

I wish my powdercoater was as competent as yours, cracking finish on them!

Haha yeah both I think now! Drivers side is a dodgy mechanic made copper job a d the passengers is seized

Wheres the best place to get rear brake lines? The union on mine has seized to the pipe meaning I've had to rotate the caliper to get it off

Started a bit of a brake refurb, the union on the brake line is seized to the line itself so looks like I need new ones on the back😫

I need to get a blowtorch to free up caliper bleed nipples, which gases get hotest or rather which would be best for this purpose? Any recommended torches

I thought I was going mad then, they must be two a penny