Well its finally time for me to start a resto thread of my own,

Ive been using passionford for a good couple of years now, its been a massive source of information thats made owning my 2wd saph alot easyer,

One of my fav section of the sight has to be Restorations and Rebuils. its amazing how far people will go to put a shonky old ford's back on the Road,

Anyway less of my life story and time to get on with it........

Right the plan is take the engine out, remove Diff,Box,beam,etc paint the floor and bay, powder coat,then put it all back together ready for the first rs show of the year. Easylol

First of this is How Tev looked at 2pm today




















As i hasve never done anythin like this before i started the only way i thought was right n stuck the kettle on,

Then worked from the boot forward





i was quite pleasently suprise and found nothing that scared me to much, as you can see the wheel well is starting to rust a little but nothing that cant be fixed

Then on to the back seats





Rear bench removed and again Looks really clean

Just as i had worked up enough sweat to stick the kettle on Rich (xr4x4) turend up to lend a hand



Cheers fella

A couple more bolts removed and the car looked like this





And my garage looked like this



Then came the Bit i really wasnt lookin forward to, the removal of the carpet, As you can see from the photos of the car its Quite a clean car, and the floor looks solid from the underside but ive seen it many time on here when people lift carpets to find a car that looks like its from the flintstones

All in all i think ive got away with it quite easy,





The only realy area to worry bout on the passenger side is a slight bit of rust where the seat bolts throught the floor (im told this is a common thing) and a small hole in the passenger foot well







The drivers sides a little worse ive got 2 ares on the transmission tunnel that need a slight bit of attention and 1 area near the drivers door theat need attention now b4 it turns bad,

So all in all the floor looks good

After the another brew the decision was made to remove the dash, the bottom half had alread been removed to get the carpet out so 5 extra srews didnt seam to much extra effort,And the fact that the cars 20 years old, its got 20 years of bodge wirin that needs fixin







after seing this little lot i felt like i had bitten off mre than i could chew, i only wanted to do a small resto not a full rebuild but due to the size of my garage everthings gotta come out just incase i gotta wield the car,

Anyway after another Brew i made the decision to call it a day, and the fact i need to spend another 2 hours putting bits away in the loft so i could get the car back in the garage,

Please excuse the poor pic quality it turns out i spend all day takin phots with the cam on the wrong setting

althought i do kinda like this pick



(it show i spend more time polishin the car than i do driving it )

anyway weather dependent hopefully their will b more updates tomorrow

Cheers jay