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Easter Monday...
I woke up with a whole day free to myself, which was to be spent down in the garage. Little did I know what would be in store for the day!
In the morning I got a couple of jobs done. Firstly, fitted the fuel tank breather now the carbon cannister is gone.
Then got the heat...
So this weekend the boys came round for a last minute, mini meet. Saturday was a bit of a wash out, and with @Bear Head getting his Brembo's fitted, and @RyG swapping his dash out, it was done to @Steven103 and me to crack on with the car (mostly Steven!).
In the days before the weekend I had...
I was under the impression that the bluing is just the oils coming out of the tyre when they get hot. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but they shouldn't be binned for the discolouration.
My boss' son has started importing yank cars to do up and sell on.
Boss has an absolutely gorgeous ford galaxie on his drive at present. This one in fact.
For the Oxfordshire, Surrey and South Central gang, we're heading over to Castle Combe for the spring Action Day.
Tickets for the stand are sold out, but tickets for the show are still available. Come check us and the show out...
@optical popped over this afternoon and we set about dropping the rear beam to install the powerflex rear beam bushes. It had an advisory for perished bushes on the last MOT so thought I best get them changed now.
We can both see why people complain about this job.
The first issue we had was...
In the heroic efforts to remove the motor, the alternator was terminal but also the live feed to it as well. Few minutes later, a new connector is on
Along with the new coolant bottle. Almost seems a shame to use the standard pipe work now. Just refresh the clios for now.
So the roll cage arrived last week. Steven and his buddy Chris popped by to check it out.
We mocked up how it will look, and found its not a dash dodger! Lol!
So dash bars and look will come out (as they were for welding anyway), and I'll need to source a dash bar from custom cages.
Good. Hopefully got a very decent welder lined up too, so it'll be nice and secure.
Did make me laugh when I opened the pack, and found a CD of pictures of the clio "international" cage. Still, it shows the basic structure that makes up the clubman cage anyway.
No pics yet Ali - it's just big...
Oh, and the roll cage has turned up. Have decided on a Custom Cages clubman cage.
Poor lad who delivered it was on his lonesome, and was back at work with a dodgy knee after having surgery on it. That cage is about 25+ KG packaged up!
So after last week when @Gus and @Steven103 visited, the engine was cleaned and left to dry.
I attacked it mid week with some rust remover gel that Gus left, and gave it a good clean. It got a fair bit off, but still required a lot of work.
Come yesterday, @Scrooge came up and fitted the...
Another update, and quite a bit of progress was made this weekend.
Massive, massive thanks to @Scrooge
He came up yesterday to fit the cambelt, and then we got a bit carried away with carrying on. That resulted in the engine and gearbox being painted, the ancillaries reassembled, and dropping...