27th March

Ground down the little bits of surface rust and put Loctite Rust Remedy on top:



Ground down the rust on both sides, and totally soaked it in the rust remedy:


Stripped the inlet & the exhaust off the engine:


Also cleaned up and painted one of the hubs as well, but forgot to get a picture of that.

So, not so much progress tonight, but since I don't get home from work till 7pm it's not soo bad, but back to it tomorrow again

28th March

A touch more progress tonight:

Doing more seam welding preperation, as my mate is coming tomorrow night to start on the seam welding:






While using the circular wire brush on the drill that I've been using on a little scabby bit on the inner wing, it turned into this:


A pic showing the actual size of it in relation to my thumb, I know it's tiny, but still


Got the alternator, starter and box off the engine, when my mates doing the seam welding tomorrow, my and my bro will get on with cleaning the engine up ready to be painted:


New waterpump for it:


2x wheel bearings for the front


Also got new track rod ends and new ball joints coming tomorrow too, so will be 99% brand new on the front end.