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Just a wee tale .... 2.5 8V Restoration

I love the way that when you do any work to your car, you do it to perfection.[:)]

Will be a lovely car when you have finished caressing it. Nice to see another one preserved by a true enthusiast.

 
Good to see its lifting your spirits [:)] I will swap the mangy comb you found for the envelope I found amongst my pile of service history that contained someone's toe nail clippings ugh!

 
Lovely work Paul. Are those panels still available new (the two inner sections). I can't work out what the part numbers are from the drawings, do you have them to hand?

 
robdimond said:
Lovely work Paul. Are those panels still available new (the two inner sections). I can't work out what the part numbers are from the drawings, do you have them to hand?
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The parts were available when I ordered mine just a couple of months back, they arrived very dusty with 1988 date stickers on, in fact the panels were older by a few weeks than the car they went on !!

Part Number 19 on the body side section.

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cheers, Paul



 
Small update.

Hopefully get the car home tomorrow from its first visit to the bodyshop, new OPC sills fitted and a small repair to the rear arch , more dent removal than rust removal. I have asked the bodyshop to flash a coat of red on purely to seal the primer coat until the car goes back later in the year for a full repaint so this will be flatted back, you can see the pink/red line !

Anyway I can confirm that doing a full sill change using OPC parts by a reputable specialist to a high standard costs North of £2k and I bought the OPC parts using a good discount plus I negotiated a good hourly rate at the bodyshop.

Next step will be to sort all the mechanical maladies these cars suffer from.....more expense.

All the best, Paul

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great job Paul....good to see another being given a little TLC, there's nothing cheap about owning and maintaining these cars but IMHO you get back ten fold in driver smiles.....:)

Pete

 
So the car came home from the bodyshop on Friday, quickly up onto axle stands to start the strip down.

Before it went to the bodyshop I soaked all the bolts underneath with a strong releasing spray, I did the same again yesterday and started loosening but not removing stuff today, apart from the rear anti-roll bar, that came off nice and easy, bottom shock bolts were very very tight.

I'm waiting to borrow an good impact gun to release the rear hub nut before I pull much more apart.

cheers, Paul

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A lot of people would be happy to post up that set of pics as their "After". If that's what you've got to work with as a "Before" then you've bought a beauty!

 
It's just taken two very long hard days to get one bolt out, the bolt securing the torsion bar tube alloy end bearing plate to the body at the rear of the sill, in 25 years of working on and restoring classic cars it is without doubt the worst job I have ever done.

The bolt was seized into the bush, both the head of the bolt and the nut had been rounded off, at 4pm today a cheer could be heard around the land as the remains of the bolt after drilling, cutting, soaking, freezing etc etc came out .......the rear hub nuts have still not released their 500Nm grip despite the best efforts off chemicals and Snap On impact gun, tomorrow I'm gonna see the local truck mechanic and see if he can pop down with a heafty impact gun.

The second bolt on the opposite side of the torsion tube came out in about 5 seconds !

All the best, Paul

 
PAUL RUDDY said:
It's just taken two very long hard days to get one bolt out, the bolt securing the torsion bar tube alloy end bearing plate to the body at the rear of the sill, in 25 years of working on and restoring classic cars it is without doubt the worst job I have ever done.

The bolt was seized into the bush, both the head of the bolt and the nut had been rounded off, at 4pm today a cheer could be heard around the land as the remains of the bolt after drilling, cutting, soaking, freezing etc etc came out .......the rear hub nuts have still not released their 500Nm grip despite the best efforts off chemicals and Snap On impact gun, tomorrow I'm gonna see the local truck mechanic and see if he can pop down with a heafty impact gun.

The second bolt on the opposite side of the torsion tube came out in about 5 seconds !

All the best, Paul
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The obscene rear hub nut is a nightmare !

You'll need a Very large Scaffold pole and then some!

I had to cut them off even with the above although the whole axle was off the car.

R

 
The car is now up on four axle stands, plenty room to work safely underneath, I'm gonna do a precautionary clutch change and head gasket as I work my way to the front, plus all the hoses and consumables etc.

But that's for later.

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Getting back to the job in hand, or nuts in hand, I can confirm both rear hub nuts have been removed.

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The trailing arms are off and stripped, several seized bolts made for fun afternoons.

The torsion beam is out and stripped and parts are away for powder coating and vapour blasting, all new fasteners ordered from OPC.

Next job, gearbox and fuel tank to come out.

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Easiest way to get the hub nuts off is to get them cherry red/orange and they will pop off no problem at all. Works every time. The easiest way to get the siezed front mounts off it to grind the back bolt off and then get into the front nut with an air sander with a course belt, will be out in 15 minutes. They are always rotten. Roasting the bolts if the heads are passable can get them out as well too.

Alasdair

 
Well, gearbox is now out as is the fuel tank, nice to see things looking factory fresh and no issues to report.

Time to start cleaning the floorpan while parts are away at the powder coaters.

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I know Mr Ruddy very well and this will be another Kingsdoken thread, speaking of which he seems to have gone into hibernat.

 
Always nice picking up clean shiny parts.

First batch collected from the powder coaters and second batch dropped off.

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