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May 17, 2024 22:02:52 GMT
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Tonight started well with the car getting masked up for painting the front of the chassis. It continued well with the first coat of gloss laid on. But then it went downhill. I waited for the paint to tack off and then went to lay a second coat on. Except the spraygun would not spray properly. . Poured the paint out into a mixing cup and did a quick and incredibly messy gun clean. Put the paint back in and.........it still would not spray properly. again. At this point I got another spraygun out & tipped the paint into that. Tried to paint and that would not spray properly either. x 3. So I chucked as bit more thinners into the pot and gave it a good stir, and after a bit of testing on the brown paper it finally sprayed properly again. So I got the second coat on but its a bit dry in places so I think I'll have to put another coat on in the morning to get a good shine everywhere. I can only guess that the paint had got a bit too viscous in the pot waiting for the second coat, never had this issue before and I've used this paint for years. It was quite warm tonight at 23 degrees in the garage but that should not have been an issue. So I had the joy of cleaning two guns afterwards and all the mess from opening up a gun full of paint. Still looks pretty good though.
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May 17, 2024 21:47:14 GMT
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How about The Joy Of Endless scoffing All Of Teaboys Cream Cakes ?
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May 16, 2024 23:04:46 GMT
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So what was todays progress I hear you all cry? well, some might cry......oh, only you at the back then. Well, I borrowed the rivnut tool from work And opened up all the holes in the bulkhead where they had used nuts & bolts to secure everything and converted them to 6mm steel rivnuts. This will make assembly much easier.
Then it was on to fitting the ally plates I had made up at work to make the hole around the M/C airtight. This took a fair bit longer than anticipated as the bulkhead was not flat there and needed a bit of massaging. I also had to add a bit of 6mm steel bar welded behind to stiffen it up - the extra 2 bottom bolts bolt into this to pull everything flat.
With the welder out I welded up the bit I had missed and primed over it again. Then it was the boring task of masking up the car. Andy's bulkhead had been painted in a matt black, I don't have any of that and I was just going to do a halo around the tunnel with the satin black I do have. But then I thought that would not look good so I stripped the entire bulkhead of everything and painted the whole lot. The satin black will look a lot smarter.
With the remains of the black epoxy primer I also painted the master cylinder.
More masking tomorrow so I can paint the front of the chassis in gloss black.
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May 16, 2024 22:52:12 GMT
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Thanks Phil, James - yes we all do it from time to time, I blame welding upside down and bright lights overhead.........
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May 15, 2024 22:18:21 GMT
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LED lamps are great. Fit an led rear number plate lamp? We want a picture with main beam on
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May 15, 2024 22:07:16 GMT
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Tonight after dinner I stripped the front down and prepped the chassis & tunnel for primer. Before it got painted I though I'd tap the crossmember for the thread that will hold the brake line T junction bracket. I also rubbed down the filler on the bottom of the nose and that got spot primed before the chassis got painted. Then it was primer time, tunnel; and the front of the chassis, I'm not fussed about the overspray on the wiring & pipes as they will be coming out for replacement/cleaning anyway. The good thing about primer is it shows up where I missed a bit of weld underneath the chassis I'd welded next to the joint rather than over it - this will be sorted tomorrow.
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May 15, 2024 18:45:01 GMT
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Popped into OddRods on the way home from work tonight & picked up the new steering shaft which Wayne kindly swapped for the shorter one - thanks Wayne! We now have steering again
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May 14, 2024 22:36:23 GMT
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Good friends Mike & Kim, and also Phil came over tonight for a visit. Mike came with gifts - 2 rear windows to choose a good one from and he has machined up a very nice bonnet support housing and also donated a bonnet support rod. Photo's of these in a future posting. After a good catch up they left me to get on with stuff. I mocked up the suspension again with the coilovers fitted this time, and put jacks under them to mimic the ride height. After lots of trialling to see where the brake line mounts would go I decided on the best place where they will not foul the springs with the suspension in any position. This took far longer that you would think but it's worth taking time on these things. With that done I drilled a 10mm hole in the chassis and welded an M10 nut over it for an earth point for the engine. I think that is now all the welding completed on the front of the car. I then cleaned up the garage a bit and masked up the car, I need to get some panel wipe tomorrow as I ran out tonight. Hopefully I'll get some primer on it tomorrow.
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May 14, 2024 13:07:10 GMT
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Let's hope karma has its way and someone scrapes all down the side of his car in a car park and drives off. What a complete ****
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May 14, 2024 12:49:32 GMT
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This keeps dropping off my notifications, some excellent repair work there.
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May 14, 2024 12:45:31 GMT
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You were camped opposite us & I meant to come over for a chat, but it was so busy over the weekend I never managed it - sorry!
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May 14, 2024 12:38:55 GMT
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I texted Wayne at OddRods last night for the new steering shaft, he replied this morning with a question and now its ready for collection - great service!
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May 13, 2024 23:06:36 GMT
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Thank you Nigel, it was a great weekend! good to meet you as well. I'll post some photos from the weekend tomorrow, but progress photos tonight. Popped the engine back in again tonight with the exhaust fitted to see what clearances are like - they are tight. Why Rover stuck the oil pump poking out of the engine like that I don't know but it is a major pain for fitting everything in. The good news is that it all does fit, but we will be stuck with the tiny oil filter. I've sorted the problem with the engine mount being in the way of the steering shaft, I've trimmed off a bit of the mount and the mounting rubber.
The mount is trimmed back here;
and one of the mounts is trimmed back as well;
Now it all clears ok The next job is to get a new longer shaft made up.
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May 13, 2024 12:25:21 GMT
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Second visit, better than before even if I didn't take my car on track this time, well done to everyone.
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May 10, 2024 20:57:59 GMT
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It was our club night last night so my pop had a trip out and I had a good chat with Andy & Kim. I'm getting ready for the retro Rides weekend at goodwood, but a little progress has been made. I was painting a new mirror mount for mine so it was a good opportunity to get a bit of satin black on Andy's alloy radiator (I'm not a fan of silver radiators through the front grill). And tonight after putting the wheelie bars back on mine I finished the chassis on Andy's car. Fishplates added on the outside of the chassis, I was going for strength, not pretty, so a basic shaped plate. On the inside I though my welding was good enough, so for belts and braces I just went over the welds with a wide stitch weld - that is plenty strong enough even if it's not pretty. Off to Goodwood tomorrow, see you all there
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Rear brakes don't grip much compared to the fronts, put water under your tyres (add washing up liquid if you want to help the car ) and hit the throttle hard to the floor, you can back off a bit once the tyres start to spin good. Make sure you have someone filming it!
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Yay, a good win on the mower, excellent.
Always a milestone to finish the paint.
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Yesterday I had also mapped the rear screen surround, first one is now cut but I'll need to try it on Phils car (he has no headlining fitted yet) to see how well it matches up. I scanned it off his fibreglass one, but that was not very equal (and did not fit that well) so I've made it all correct and a little wider, I suspect a MkII version will need to be done though.
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