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1985 Reliant SS1 rebuild/upgrade
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Apr 25, 2012 | 02:11 PM
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pauluspaolo
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No theatre duties (my other very time consuming hobby!) until June means that I can finally get a few consecutive evenings in working on the car – unfortunately painting a freshly stripped anti-roll bar isn’t very exciting & you can only give it one coat of paint at a time so 3 coats of paint requires 3 evenings ….. & taking photos of paint drying is about as exciting as watching it dry! Anyway said painting was finally completed & I refitted the front anti-roll bar with the help of my “Westfield in bits” owning friend Matt (thanks Matt
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). I’d bought new polyurethane bushes for both the front & rear ARB’s sometime ago (read: years ago) so after remembering where they'd been stashed, I dug them out & fitted them at the same time. Didn’t take long in the grand scheme of things & the jobs a good ‘un.
Front ARB drop links + poly bushes:
Front ARB chassis mount & poly bush:
I also attacked the sump with my angle grinder …... AGAIN!! …… as I wasn't happy about it being so close to the new crossmember (see previous post). This is the result & the channel should, hopefully, give more clearance. Note all the alloy dust in the background – I had a big clean/tidy up just after this photo was taken so I have a nice clean tidy garage to clutter up again.
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