Project Rusty.

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Sunny Sunday and I attacked it with gusto, well sort of, I got the spanners out and the grinder out to play for a little while.

Decided to get the RH inner wing de-rusted and cleaned up, needed to get it properly primed too as the Bonda wants 24hrs drying before applying another solvent based paint, I want to get it seam sealed and painted with the black Hammerite tomorrow night.

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Got the scraper out to get the worst of it off the inner wing top.

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The white powdery stuff is from the chemical reaction between bare steel and bare aluminium.

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Pinged out the spire clips and hit it hard with the wire brush on the drill and wiped it clean with meths ready for painting.

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From a rusty mess to red primer.

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Had to slice and dice a nut and bolt on the passenger seat to allow me to get that out of the way, and while I was there I decided that it would be fun to poke the sill to see how bad it was.

Well, it wasn't pretty, at all........

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Ho hum, there is indeed a length of box section to replace it and happy days will come again when I get that welded in.

I also got a prezzie in the post.

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So I have a good bit of work to do and I also have a decent underbody protection to go on and keep the tin worm at bay in the future.

More in a few days I reckon.
 
@The Mad Hat Man pneumatics not in my store yet :(

But on a brighter note, i am outside working on me truck :)

Now the ****!t bit, you'd a thought that the new olives would be included with the sender, well, not on your life and nope, cant even get the old ones off :mad:

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Sodding 8mm things too, only ever seen them in 3/8the ~ 10mm in B&Q so not holding out there, bugger :(.

I'm guessing Gotty in Alton will have them but no chance of getting there before they close after work, male order i guess but then Friday at best maybe Saturgay¿

Hmmmmmmn :rolleyes:

Guess I'm going painting for an hour, good job I only pulled the return line off so I can park it back up again lol.
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
Wot they from?

Just tap them gently around the outside and it will expand the olives.
Click to expand...

They're off the fuel sender steel pipes that are rotted out, they were rusted onto the pipe solid, no drama, buy new and do it right, might even get new nuts for them ;)

Did slap some paint on the beast though to while away an hour :)

Went from this

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To this :)

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Looking like new galvanised shock towers will be on order very soon as these are a bit blown and it would only be right to get them replaced with good quality ones that will last.

Should get a bit more done tomorrow night all being well and that will feel like progress again has resumed.

OK I've still got the radius arms to re-bush and the panhard rod but they ought go fast.
 
If you needs these bejeezlus 8mm olives in a hurry, get to ScrewFix and get an 8mm straight brass coupling and Bobs ya uncle so to speak.

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Just gotta find 5 minutes to get it all fitted now :)
 
While it was dry and not chucking it down I managed to get the tools out and finish getting the new in tank fuel sender and pick up fitted.

It was shocking at how badly rusted out the return and pick up steel pipes were, they literally just sheared off as soon as I put the spanner anywhere near them :eek:

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To this

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The poxy olives were rusted on the stems solid so they got binned for new ones that came from an inline 8mm compression fit brass fitting.

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The nuts were ok, just a bit rusty but hey, nothing new there LOLZ

Time to pull the old one out and undoing that big plastic nut isn't terrible just takes a little more effort than you might think, then pull the old sender out and the rubber seal that sits inside the neck.

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The seal fits inside the tank and the sender just needs a smear of grease around it and it slides straight in.

Fit the fuel lines and it's a case of job jobbed.

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When I had refitted the tail pipe of the exhaust a few weeks ago it was dark and I had tightened it up without realising that it was rubbing against the rear mud flap mounting shield so I spent a little while laying under there adjusting that up so that it no longer rattles and vibrates against it.

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It started chucking it down with rain just after that so I packed it up for another day.
 
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