As most of you know i bought a Sierra Cosworth 4x4 1990 fairly cheap went to go through MOT and failed on a lot of things.
So im going to give it a general tidy up and get it back on road.

Things that need doing

Replace all brake pipes and flexi hoses with goodridge ones
repair both inner sills
repair any rust or corrosion underneef!
Figure out why ABS light stays on.
Fit new heater matrix
spray spoiler and boot as they become a bit scabby.

this is what it looked like when i bought it





these were the sill and brake pipes it failed mot on







The underside


Just purchased these




Now for the brake lines so off comes wheel and inner covers and
WTF
Multicoloured inner arch



give the underside a jet wash very breifly and come out ok really



Cut away some little rust holes in the inner wheel area ready to weld tommorrow





and this is how i left her today

 

Looks a tidy motor mate and you will have them pipes and welding done in no time and be back on the road again shortly.

 

Roosie - while you're on welding it up, take the rear bench out and look down at the sides of the floorpan - you'll see some oblong plastic covers...

Pull them out and have a good look inside - you'll be looking into the insides of the chassis rails. They ALL rust here sooner or later, mine looked mint from outside but were starting to rot slightly from the inside out

The Youth welded them up easy enough for me, but you really need the rear beam out to get at them to weld.

If all's good in there then get a good squirt of Dinitrol Cavity Wax in there

Neil.

PS on the plates you are going to weld for your MOT, make sure you don't block the drain slots up (you can see them in the bottom right of your pic) - This will have been where your rot started IMO...

 

cheers ill bear that in mind!

 

do u realise uve got 2wd rear badges on ur car mate?? 4wd ones will look so much better ...car looks nice btw

 

typical sierra repairs m8 good luck

 

Depends if it's '89 or '90

 

As Neil S Has said i had to do mine Luckly for me i was @ a m8s workshop using his 2 poster removing the rear beam and noticed the rusted so cleaned it up and welded it whiles the beam was off

Does'nt look to bad tho sounded worse when you said it had Failed Badly on your other post

Fingers crossed Ps you see whot i mine by the wheel lines corsing more rusted got them out just in time But buy a cuple of cans of Under Seal Ł2/3 an can will be better then just Paint IMO

 

mines 1990 mate

must get some new rear badges then cheers

 

Looks good mate


Brian

 

not too bad really,should not be that hard to sort.

 

not much of a update but im getting used to this making brake pipe milaki!
im pleased with myself

 

well done good to see her getting fixed & not broken up

 

Amen

 

whats the differ about 4x4 and 2wd badges?

 

Strictly they're '88 to '89 and '90 to '92

The original ones were like this:



and the 90-92 ones were what I call 'plain', and the Sierra and RS were separate badges...I dare say someone can furnish us with a piccy...my collection doesn't appear to have one!

 

well my car rolled of production line in may1990

 

Ah ha!!

Got one!!

It's of my mate's 4x4 Saff, hope he doesn't mind

 

must get one of them badges

 

welded a plate in place of cut out rust and then red oxide the inner wing not too pretty job but hey!



and now to check on the other side see what damage is there and too my suprise MINT no rust whatsoether and the plastic inner cover came of without breaking. so give it a good clean and added a bit of red oxide to that aswell.







get more on later today!

 

hammerite on aswell

looking good

 

will hopefully get my inner arch liners in today and sort out my gauges to go in

 

will be fitting some of these bad boys today
Oil pressure
Oil Temp
Boost
Voltmeter
AFR Gauge
Water Temp

 

Looking good roosie Will be back on the road pretty quick

 

It looks a really good job your doing well done keep the pics coming

 

fitted 2 gauges the paint kept chipping off the holder so i put permanent marker on the outside "i know it looks bad" im going to spray it again tommorrow!

 

Good work Stu.
This better spec that the one Pauline bought off ya?

 

why dont he pull his finger out?

 

He's put a load of cash into this house him and Nikki have bought.
Keep offering him cash for it but he's not interested

 

Looks like you're doing a great job on it m8.

 

Nice one, soon be back on the road , and the rot caught before its too late

 

just fitted goodridge hoses and painted my caliper spent most of day collect my motocross bike after rebuild so didnt get a chance to do anything really

 

 

I so so want a cossie

 

in the end did the hoses fit through the holes..

or did you need to use cable ties as rs-nuts said to use ???

im gonna order a set for my car next week ...

oh and have you bled the brakes yet...???

i think they have to be done twice because of the abs

just pondering as you said you have flushed the whole system out of fluid

which is what i want to do and replace with dot 5 fluid

 

I drilled the hole out and made it 5mm bigger and it went right through then got a 15mm thin nut and got held in there properly, didint like the idea of using cable ties!

nah havent bled brakes yet

im changing mine to dot5 for track days

goodridge hoses make the brakes looks oo much better

 

well played mate

 

started on fronts today.
goodridge hoses on
cleaned calipers
and its polibushed all up front result






and this is how the car is looking at the moment

 

this might be the cause to my abs fault the sensor looks fooked

 

Looks like the teeth have been at it