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

 

nice one mate,got my fingers crossed for ya that you dont find anymore nasty suprises.i took mines to my uncles to get painted and ended up stripping the thing to a shell

your one looks good though man,good luck

 

looks a tidy one that mate good luck on the resto bud

 

cheers fella, i really dont think i could handle any more suprises lol

 

cheers fella

 

Wicked jay!!

I still miss it

Good to see its got a fuckin tip top owner though mate!!

 

now im gona add some more (ill let you tell them about your want to sleep)

ive never seen a man so determind to keep the dash in when i said i need it out to sort the bodges out for wiring lol

but no real good day on it and its not as bad as some later sierras ive owned and seen

if the weathers snow tomorrow and not raining expect to get dragged off the sofa, as we dont actually need teh car out the agarge for the next bit anyhow

 

cheers fella feel free to thow any spare change my way, i will need it lol

 

looks a good 1 mate good luck with project,ive gota have one ive got get rid of the rst an get 1 ithinks

 

yer ok its true i had decided that today i was going to kick back and watch tv all day,

and yer i still think the days should have stayed, the wiring may have been shit but i never drive the car it didnt matter lol

cheers for you help though bud

 

any more issues with mine and you can have it cheap lol

 

no probs, it will get there, so you will be a bit gutted ripping it to bits but just think how good iti will be when its finished

 

Same here dude, should have a project of my own at the weekend, proper car this time

 

give us a clue then what is it??

 

Mr C whats missing from this picture??



answers on a post card

 

look forward to seein when its done mate

 

4wd and FAST

Will tell you wednesday mate

 

like the sound of that fella

 

looking good Jay, you know where i am if you need a hand

 

cheers fella

 

at least your up lol, should be out there cracking on mate

 

im just bout to start

 

ill be round in a bit, still waking up lol

 

lazy fooker, and stop usin my resto thread like msn

 

lol, get msn then

 

looks like your making good progress id of taken the sound deadening off the bulkhead aswell though so you can see how far the rots spread wheres todays update lol ?

 

looking good,all the best with it

 

Good luck with the resto ,floor looks very clean just a couple of bits

 

Right time for a update,

Today I started out with the same intentions as yesterday (to do nothing but watch re-runs of top gear on dave and drink coffee) but as the weather was so good i had no excuse,

so After a quick brew i dragged my lazy ass in to the garage,

The plan was to start on the engine bay as i was planning to take the yb lump out tomorrow, but all good plans go out the window



i jacked the rear of the car up with the intention of removing the zorst, but decided while i was there i would remove the rear bakes and calipers





(check out my make shift way of catchin brake fluid

After i had removed the brakes i thought i would remove the rear bumper as its only two bolts and a couple of clips





found a small area of rust but its only surface and its not structural



had a quick look around and as you can see the floor looks good although slightly rusty







Its amazing though just how salt attacks stuff i noticed salt crystals forming on the brake lines,

A couple of bolts and the zorst came out really easy





looks in Good condition considering its been on the car for 5 years (pays to be a buffty fooker at times)

Next on the list was a brew as rich had finally made it out of his pit

While i stuck the kettle on rich removed my inner arch liner,



Cheers fella lol

next up was the fuel tank

What a pain in the ass

The fuel pump/filter cam off a treat



Quick strip down and a session with a wire brush and i end up with this



Now all i have to do is remember how it all goes back together

we moved on to the tank,

The tank strap came off with the usual wd40 and a wiggle, then came the biggest pain in the ass we manage to brake the to shit captive nut things





typical ford, doing things on the cheap

so after Alot of PISSING about Rich came up with a solution





I had the job of usin the hacksaw



draining off the last of the fuel

and finally The tank was free



i was worryed what i would find, kinda thought the tank could b hiding something really nasty but alls good







all in all the back ends in good condition only real area that will need attention is i found a small hole in the passenger chassie legg



nothing that cant b fixed,

A visit from twellsie To collect his new wheels



Then off to the engine bay to stat what i had set out to do in the first place

first to come out was the strut barce, this should have been a simple job but..................... as with everything today it took ages,



Then out came the heat shield (looks like this has seen better days)



The down pipe was next,

What a pain, i very nearly threw my Dummie out of the pram over this,

How can 3 bolts cause so much hassel,





they would not budge, and Trying to get a spanner in to undo the third bolt is impossible, ford must have used a gerbil train in the art of kung-fu,yoga and geometry,

A hell of a lot of skin missing of my knuckles later and i end up with this



and this



At this point i really had had enough

so i called it a day

packed all the bits i had pulled off the car



Lets see what tomorrow brings

cheers jay

 

oh and if you wondering where everythin from the inside has gone







i now have a recaro clad kitchen

 

looking good mate keep up the good work

 

damn, as i left you place i knew i had forgotten something

 

looking good mate..removing the petrol tank on mine was a fooking nightmare

 

I want to take the angle grinder to it until i rememberd what it was, fookin thing

 

dont worry fella next time i wont let you forget

 

just got back mate, had a right laff tonight lol

anyhow, yes botch of day but will get the engine ready to drop out next so by the weekend car should be on axle stands in garage with everything else ready to drop

twellsie will have those wheels lol

 

glad you got home ok fella, fingers crossed u fixed ur headlight as well

 

Should be over this afternoon mate, bang kettle on and get your cash out I will have some wheels!!

gotta take the sister in law to look at a sofa at luch time

Good progress too pal, nice to see the floor isnt bad at all!!

 

I will b doing a resto on my kettle at this rate the poor things never off at the moment,

winner, how much do you want for these fine wheels,

see you later pal

 

LOL @ Kettle

You'll need to source an uprated element and cage it up

Dunno about >(shit)< wheels, have a look when Im over mate