Time for an update.
It's getting worse😂. I got fed up being stabbed by bits of wire brush so any parts that would fit went in a bucket of deox-c for rust removal. F me that's impressive stuff! The hubs came out 99% rust free which I really didn't expect.
I've since blathered them in hammerite and taken them to the garage for new bearings fitting. One of the bearings was rough as fook so they wanted doing anyway. Thanks to @Romanian Tyre Fitter for tagging them onto his autodoc order👍. While that was ongoing Kyle collected my gearbox and dropped it off with his mate who works at a box refurb place. Yeah it was fucked! The planet gears had no teeth and every serviceable part was fucked by the lumpy soup. So I needed a new box and luckily @Louis had his old one still and sold me it for a very fair price. Off that went to Kyle's mate and eventually I've got a refurbished box that should work😁. It's now sat in the house while I await a new clutch.
But there's still other jobs to be done. All that rust needs sorting while I can get at it. That meant removing the carbon canister.
And it's not going back on again😆. Considering that's the only bolt that's snapped on me I'll take it! Rust brushed down and treated with hydrate 80, electric and some black paint. I need to remove the front wing to do the top of the bumper bracket but can't because the battery isn't fitted. But I could take off the passenger side. If you've ever taken a wing off you'll know what a piss about it is to get to all the nuts. One which ultimately led to this 😭.
Not exactly sure how that happened while fighting the wiper arm but the windscreen was pitted to fook anyway so a new one will be welcome. While the wings off I can try to tackle the flat jacking points. How any mechanic can do this to someone's car I don't know. They were bent over when I got the car so I should have seen to them earlier to be fair but never had the time to strip the car down to get at them properly.
Still a work in progress so I'll update when they are finished. Hopefully the skirts will sit better too after.
More to come as I try to remember what goes where over the next 3 months reassembly😂.
It's getting worse😂. I got fed up being stabbed by bits of wire brush so any parts that would fit went in a bucket of deox-c for rust removal. F me that's impressive stuff! The hubs came out 99% rust free which I really didn't expect.
I've since blathered them in hammerite and taken them to the garage for new bearings fitting. One of the bearings was rough as fook so they wanted doing anyway. Thanks to @Romanian Tyre Fitter for tagging them onto his autodoc order👍. While that was ongoing Kyle collected my gearbox and dropped it off with his mate who works at a box refurb place. Yeah it was fucked! The planet gears had no teeth and every serviceable part was fucked by the lumpy soup. So I needed a new box and luckily @Louis had his old one still and sold me it for a very fair price. Off that went to Kyle's mate and eventually I've got a refurbished box that should work😁. It's now sat in the house while I await a new clutch.
But there's still other jobs to be done. All that rust needs sorting while I can get at it. That meant removing the carbon canister.
And it's not going back on again😆. Considering that's the only bolt that's snapped on me I'll take it! Rust brushed down and treated with hydrate 80, electric and some black paint. I need to remove the front wing to do the top of the bumper bracket but can't because the battery isn't fitted. But I could take off the passenger side. If you've ever taken a wing off you'll know what a piss about it is to get to all the nuts. One which ultimately led to this 😭.
Not exactly sure how that happened while fighting the wiper arm but the windscreen was pitted to fook anyway so a new one will be welcome. While the wings off I can try to tackle the flat jacking points. How any mechanic can do this to someone's car I don't know. They were bent over when I got the car so I should have seen to them earlier to be fair but never had the time to strip the car down to get at them properly.
Still a work in progress so I'll update when they are finished. Hopefully the skirts will sit better too after.
More to come as I try to remember what goes where over the next 3 months reassembly😂.
