MollyNomad
Well-Known Member
Just another update on The Never Ending Story(NOT LIMAHL)
Was away in my truck last week having started back having had 9 days at home(working on ‘The Obvious’) then I realised that all that was needed ‘pre start up’ was the replacement of the shock assemblies of the rear suspension and hubs etc.
(No thought of brakes or fuel etc)
So when I got home a couple of days back got stuck into it all. New bolts and nuts some copper slip where required, working out what goes where etc, finding erroneous bits and bobs, looking at my newly ‘repainted’ susp components, two new adjustable arms, drive shafts in and all put together. All the ‘static’ bolts/fasteners holding the fuel cradle, rear sub frame, trailing link bracket to body bolts etc were all torqued to correct specs (click) , bolt heads painted and then once dry ‘paint marked’ so any ‘lefty loosey‘ stuff would be viewable..
My drums were not in bad nick so I needle gunned them and cleaned off any remaining rust with an air grinder treated with rust remover then painted initially with (5?
) coats of weld through primer. Then the same amount of gloss black from UPol.
Yesterday was ‘brakes day‘(at least the rear) I have done these many times before yesterday was not an enjoyable one. Handbrake cables a ‘faff’ just fiddly as feck.. and I have small hands!! Then onto fitting stuff to the rear drums. For some reason I was doing this piecemeal as that’s how I have done it in the past..At one point though I stopped to buy a ‘fitting kit’ off of eBay, with all new bits and bobs… and whilst doing so saw ‘ready assembled’ ‘drum kits’… this go me a thinking. Firstly… I’m sure I had bought a ‘fitting kit’ before(literally 5 mins after making a
Purchase off of fleabay) secondly I wonder if I was to pre assemble the rear brakes I could just throw them on…
A very quick search through my ‘spares’ shelving revealed the fitting kit with new spring and basically all that’s needed… (DOH!) and secondly assembling the brakes off the car and then fitting is the actual way to do this job. Had to use a screw driver to help leverage the lower hand brake bracket thing into position but it was all fitted in very quick time with nil swearing.. unheard off for me!!
Meant to be going to work tonight(BOO!) but it looks like there isn’t any work for me til tomoz now(YAY!) so I will be heading back up the garage to have another ‘fiddle’ and maybe even get the thing ready to start etc..
I attach some piccies..
Was away in my truck last week having started back having had 9 days at home(working on ‘The Obvious’) then I realised that all that was needed ‘pre start up’ was the replacement of the shock assemblies of the rear suspension and hubs etc.
(No thought of brakes or fuel etc)
So when I got home a couple of days back got stuck into it all. New bolts and nuts some copper slip where required, working out what goes where etc, finding erroneous bits and bobs, looking at my newly ‘repainted’ susp components, two new adjustable arms, drive shafts in and all put together. All the ‘static’ bolts/fasteners holding the fuel cradle, rear sub frame, trailing link bracket to body bolts etc were all torqued to correct specs (click) , bolt heads painted and then once dry ‘paint marked’ so any ‘lefty loosey‘ stuff would be viewable..
My drums were not in bad nick so I needle gunned them and cleaned off any remaining rust with an air grinder treated with rust remover then painted initially with (5?
) coats of weld through primer. Then the same amount of gloss black from UPol.Yesterday was ‘brakes day‘(at least the rear) I have done these many times before yesterday was not an enjoyable one. Handbrake cables a ‘faff’ just fiddly as feck.. and I have small hands!! Then onto fitting stuff to the rear drums. For some reason I was doing this piecemeal as that’s how I have done it in the past..At one point though I stopped to buy a ‘fitting kit’ off of eBay, with all new bits and bobs… and whilst doing so saw ‘ready assembled’ ‘drum kits’… this go me a thinking. Firstly… I’m sure I had bought a ‘fitting kit’ before(literally 5 mins after making a
Purchase off of fleabay) secondly I wonder if I was to pre assemble the rear brakes I could just throw them on…
A very quick search through my ‘spares’ shelving revealed the fitting kit with new spring and basically all that’s needed… (DOH!) and secondly assembling the brakes off the car and then fitting is the actual way to do this job. Had to use a screw driver to help leverage the lower hand brake bracket thing into position but it was all fitted in very quick time with nil swearing.. unheard off for me!!
Meant to be going to work tonight(BOO!) but it looks like there isn’t any work for me til tomoz now(YAY!) so I will be heading back up the garage to have another ‘fiddle’ and maybe even get the thing ready to start etc..
I attach some piccies..
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