Focosmitch

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Have you powdercoated or sprayed the rad and cooler mate?

Mark RS

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Powder.

costina

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Mark, Bloody good job keep it up!!!


Paul

Mark V8

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Despite the cars fame amongst Ford enthusiasts, it's still going to be a great sleeper


Keep up the great work.

costina

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Plus when did you last see a mk1 mondeo on the road

Carlos-Titx

Or one with no tape holding bumpers on or covering damage!

stuboy

glad to see this getting saved

GINGExR2 T

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Such a cool iconic car and I'm glad it's been left the colour it is.

Good work


Ginger


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63np

Agree totally, to change the colour would have been criminal

sierra1off

Great car.

Glad its being reborn

Fullflush

Be done soon enough it looks like

Mark RS

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got the heat shield stuff on last night and a few other bits back on wiring loom brake parts and tanks so its starting to take shape, also treated it to new headlights and indictors
thanks to @paul rs for his help

Sonic Boom

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Can't wait to see this finished

Rich

Fudgey

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Great progress!
its the shitty jobs that take all the time!

gjh

You work fast! Really coming on with you.

adam151082

Great work, its going to be flautless.

fezzajsy

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looks fantastic

costina

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Mark, What heat shield stuff did you use? And is that the same a the gold stuff?

ta

Paul

Glenn_

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I also can't wait to see this finished tooo.

massivewangers

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Really looking forward to seeing this come together, one of my faves of all time, real legend of a car!

AJC

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Awesome work

foci

Can't wait to see this finished!

frayz

Fantastic read, so cool to see an old legend get rebuilt by someone who wants to actually do a proper job.
Can't wait to watch it come together. Best of luck.

Mark RS

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Hi paul,I can't remember the name I got if from demon thieves. I'll get a link and fir it up soon.

Mark RS

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not much done the last few weeks as the kids haven't been well and then I got there bug.but got my front coilovers back from leda.thanks to jon foc for his help with getting them done.
from a pitted sized mess,



to this

Glenn_

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There cool. Just wait a year or so and the threads will be rusty as fook then you won't be able to adjust them lol.

Mark RS

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that's the problem but ill beat a load of copper grease round them lol

Glenn_

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Yeh defo. Cooper slip for the win lol.

H3lsing

I would nearly get some couplers to cover the thread part. Even if they are just cable tied on. Just done a search to see if such a thing existed.

Found these:

stevecfrst1

Looking good, can you even buy leda coilovers anymore? Ive heard there sposed to be very good

alistairolsen

I wouldnt bother, it washed off in no time at all. If they were mine, I'd be wrapping them in this sort of stuff:
http://www.new-line.com/sealants/oil...ion-tape-rolls
Which is used on offshore hydraulic fittings to protect from salty spray/air. Get them on the car and adjusted with copper slip on the threads around the collars and once you're happy with them, pull them off and clean them and wrap them, then fit and forget.

Car looks superb, really enjoying seeing this come together!

Sonic Boom

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Ah yes DENSO, we wrap all our large underground fitting and bolts with the stuff, you can unwrap fittings that have been underground for 30 years and they look like new.
Not sure I'd want to wrap my coilovers in it thou.

Rich

clairendave

what about a section of mountain bike innertube ??

pumesta

I had mine on the Fiesta fully greased up, coilover sleeves fitted and packed out with grease and the adjuster collar still seized. Seized to the point where I had to cut the collar off and it still needed several blows with a mallet to get it off

jonfoc

In short mate yeah Leda are up and running and based in Lincoln.
Marks were a real challenge as i had to replace everything except the bodies. Rods, pistons , tubes,droop stops foot valves the lot all replaced. Most were made specifically for marks as they are a bespoke unit.

Mark RS

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im not to worried about them getting sized, as its going to happen no matter what I do. at the end of the day once there set up they wont be adjusted and if they do ill worry about that as and when

Mark RS

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got an update about my brakes there nearly finished. when I bought the car I did a deal with martin for 4 pot brembo calliper's ,but as I've decided to up the power I decided to put ap 6 pots on and im using a 362mm disc up front with reyland custom bells and the reyland 325mm rear conversion using std calliper, I was trying to do a deal with martin to trade the brembos back in for aps but I couldn't get through to martin to get a price so I spoke to mark at mt motorsport to make brackets and supply new callipers and pads.so I sent him over a disc and bell to get working on.
big thanks to mark he's done a super job and I well pleased with what ive seen so far



callipers are the cp5575 in black




got a message of the finished product last night about 10.00pm and the bufty even engraved the brackets for me lol

jonfoc

Some nice parts going on there mate. Get the rear dampers over when you can. Going to be a challenge if they're worse than the fronts!

Mark RS

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more done last night,heater box and dash board nearly in just a few last trims and that's that job done









while I was at that paul and terry put the new abs pump and brake pipes on and the little jobs about the engine bay





got the hydraulic clutch reservoir mounted

and got the scuttle panel and wipers fitted

so next is seats and carpet in and tidy up wiring the engines going in

Fudgey

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Great progress!