Yello all just a little update havent had much money to spend this month being christmas and needing to get drunk and all that just to keep with the spirit n'all lol. Update is got myself a 1.8 diesel mondeo starter motor and a new alternator and have bought 2 new front lower arm's as the old ones were looking worse for wear and the ball joint boots were split to buggery!
Anyhow heres the pics of the new bits before i ran into a spot of trouble with the lower arms!











And now for the Big oopps of the day lol, noticed when trying to undo the o/s/f anti-roll bar nut off connecting it to the lower arm the the thread was boogard and someone had cross threaded it putting it on so i tried my best to undo it with working it back and foward useing loads of wd40 but had no luck so out came the gas bottles to heat the nut up to help expand it to try to get it moving..then i gave it too good pulls with a braker bar then this happened....




soooooo i then had to nip to dovercourt and order a new anti-roll bar so im now waiting on that to turn up thursday before i can carry on fitting the lower arms and getting the car on all 4 wheels again.
While i had nothing else to do to the suspension i didnt waist the rest of the day so got my tatty looking rocker cover and decided to give it a fresh coat of paint, heres the out come;





I also put the lifters in as i had just rested the rocker cover on the head when putting the engine in to stop any objects falling in any unwanted places! so now all thats painted and bolted down now.





Next on the to do list is save for a alloy rad, intercooler and stage 3 turbo then hopefully its a runner