Ive had the car sorn since october and parked up hybernating in my garage.
I decided to poly bush it and give it a tidy up.
Ive got a real small garage so its going to be a tight process.
N/s front is stripped and rubbed down ready for a lick of paint.
Im putting orange poly bushes on it so, what colour shall i paint th tcas, shafts, calipers etc?
Black?








And the first tca primed, ready to play with some colours!

 

Black will look like standard but new

Went for mix of silver and black on mine,just cause silver looks brighter and cleaner

Whatever colour you do it will be massive improvement

 

I like that, top job!

 

I powdercoated mine black think it looks more factory that way..



steve

 

all the best with it

 

Goodies starting to arrive now!
Steel braided pipes.

Front end polys.

Bushes in newly painted tca! (still need pressing in).

 

Mmmmmmm, no lip on the outer tca bush!
Have i been spanked or do these mould when depressed?

 

Best of luck mate, I did mine in a really small garage too, so I feel your pain, not all of us have great big fook off barns to do it in like Smokey Kev

 

I see what PM was about now They are a different make to mine,yours are Deflex?Thats how my m8's looked and his were ok
Don't expect them to look like mine when you tighten the ARB nut down

Lose some weight then,you would have plenty of room to get around that old heap then!!!!!!!!

 

 

Looking good mate keep us updated

 

The big washer infront/behind bushes you mean?

Yeah,you need them on Other wise the nut could dissapear into the bush

 

Oh yeah!
Cheers again kev!

 

Didnt do much over the weekend due to a spot of 'man- flu!'
Anyway, the bit i did achieve was a strange 1!
I thought for ages about the best way to clean up the small rusty ford bolts and bits. I decided to do a vinegar soak, being acidic it must lift the rust. And it did.
Here is the tca washers and a few bolts. All soaked for about 4 days then a quick tickle with a wire brush!



Minimum work in cleaning that shite!

 

Bought some big stoppers aswell, under going a quick tidy-up now.



Inner arch is now treated and waxoyled up. Ready to start putting a few bits back on at the weekend.

 

Looking good... keep up the good work!!!

 

Good work....best colour car too

 

Stoppers with a fresh lick of paint! Look better than before.

 

Good work there mate and prob one of the best colours to have a saph

 

good work

 

looking good mate

 

Looking good

 

Didnt get much done over the weekend due to me sawing a big hole in my thumb on sat morning. So after a while on a&e it was "don't you fucking dare touch that car again this weekend" off the mrs!

So today she fucked off to work and im at home with the thumb!
Car time:
Finished off painting the arch and started to put the cover back on (bolts gonna be painted).




After that i decided to have a go with a zinc elctroplating kit ive got. So i set it up and plated a few of the bolts ive cleaned. They look alot fresher now but im still going to paint them when back on.



Untill tomorrow.....

 

she will kick your fookin ass if she finds the kitchen like that!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

You're fuckin right there! Half way through when she saw it, tough shit then!!

 

Coming on well m8

The bolts that hold the wheel arch liners on cost pence from Ford,probably less than the cost of the paint/your time doing it

 

Im down to ford tomorrow then! Cheers kev.