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Posted: Tue May 10, 11 10:24 pm
by Philb
How is it all coming along Roger? You must have completed more to feast our eyes on. These suspenders are starting to kill me :D

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 11 9:29 pm
by Roger
Philb wrote:How is it all coming along Roger? You must have completed more to feast our eyes on. These suspenders are starting to kill me :D
Well, today there was. I assembled the brake calipers!!!!

And not much else!

Sadly, no photos either.

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 11 9:48 pm
by mopar_mark
Roger,
Looks like your doing a fabulous job, full credit to you :thumbright:

I look forward to seeing your car in the flesh. I would never have the patience for a full on restoration, but I admire the research, searching for the correct parts, detailing & everything else associated with it 8-)

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 11 10:00 pm
by Roger
mopar_mark wrote:Roger,
Looks like your doing a fabulous job, full credit to you :thumbright:

I look forward to seeing your car in the flesh. I would never have the patience for a full on restoration, but I admire the research, searching for the correct parts, detailing & everything else associated with it 8-)
The searching for parts and detailing info is slowly driving me nuts! Im spending more time on the net that actually on the car. Currently i need a close up detail shot of the A/C idler bearing arrangement so i can work out how it goes together. Cant find one though!!!!

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 11 1:09 pm
by Green68
Only just come across this thread, you've done an excellent job. Good to see the air con back on most people leave it off. keep up the excellent work.

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 11 6:44 pm
by Roger
Paul 500 wrote:Only just come across this thread, you've done an excellent job. Good to see the air con back on most people leave it off. keep up the excellent work.
There was a part one, but the pics have now gone :(

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 11 6:47 pm
by Roger
Roger wrote:
mopar_mark wrote:Roger,
Looks like your doing a fabulous job, full credit to you :thumbright:

I look forward to seeing your car in the flesh. I would never have the patience for a full on restoration, but I admire the research, searching for the correct parts, detailing & everything else associated with it 8-)
The searching for parts and detailing info is slowly driving me nuts! Im spending more time on the net that actually on the car. Currently i need a close up detail shot of the A/C idler bearing arrangement so i can work out how it goes together. Cant find one though!!!!
Further to this, i managed to get hold of a correct fuel pump - or at least i thought so and thats what the seller said. Turns out its for a later car so the outlet union points the wrong way!!!

Currently minded to leave it on there. My patience is wearing thin!

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 11 10:47 am
by sinny
:thumbright: Looking good, keep the pics coming.

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 11 9:15 pm
by Roger
Roger wrote:
Roger wrote:
mopar_mark wrote:Roger,
Looks like your doing a fabulous job, full credit to you :thumbright:

I look forward to seeing your car in the flesh. I would never have the patience for a full on restoration, but I admire the research, searching for the correct parts, detailing & everything else associated with it 8-)
The searching for parts and detailing info is slowly driving me nuts! Im spending more time on the net that actually on the car. Currently i need a close up detail shot of the A/C idler bearing arrangement so i can work out how it goes together. Cant find one though!!!!
Further to this, i managed to get hold of a correct fuel pump - or at least i thought so and thats what the seller said. Turns out its for a later car so the outlet union points the wrong way!!!

Currently minded to leave it on there. My patience is wearing thin!
Ever the optimist, i bought a NOS fuel pump, in the box with the correct part number. It arrived, i painted it, tried to fit it, only to find that once again its the wrong one!! Arrrrrghhh! Americans!!! Are there any honest ones?

So i have now added this to my nice collection of orange fuel pumps!

As ive now given up on finding the right pump, i have refitted one of the wrong ones as it works, it will have to do.

With that in place, it was now time to refit the engine, gearbox and subframe bax to the car.

To avid damage i did this from underneath with the engine etc on a trolley that i made earlier.

Heres a few pics of it going in. All good. 1.5 hours later and not a single scratch, its in :):):)

Progress - at last!

So i turned my attention to fitting the torsion bars. cue 4 hours of wasted effort only to now (having posted earlier looking for help) find that my new bars cant work and wont work because the hex;s are not offset to each other. Once again ive been "done over" by an american. Sadly it was 8 years ago, and ive no idea who it was!!!. They were 960 thou ones to stiffen the front up, but im so hacked off with buying stuff thats wrong, i'll clean up the old ones and refit them. Might be sqidgy, but at least i might Bananarama!!

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 11 9:17 pm
by Roger
Ready to go.

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 11 9:18 pm
by Roger
on its way

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 11 9:19 pm
by Roger
keep coming

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 11 9:20 pm
by Roger
nearly there

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 11 9:21 pm
by Roger
done :)

Posted: Sun Nov 13, 11 9:22 pm
by Roger
step back and admire the view