Had the car off the road since October, heres a pic of it before I Sorned it:



This is its current state on my driveway at home:



At first all I was going to do was change the springs, it had Castle Performance ones on there, so I bought some Ahmed Bayjoo ones to go on the Konis:



However I then ventured down the slippery slope.....



All the back end is now stripped out.

 

New parts bought so far:

Rear anti roll bar droplinks



Powerflex rear ARB bushes




4X4 Rear CV Boots, Gaitors

 

Petrol tank and strap



RS Steering Wheel

 

Nice motor mate, nice progress..

 

Sourced another rear trailing arm from Gary at RS Classics as mine was rotten:

 

Then began to underseal underneath the rear near side of the car, As I dont have access to a ramp its been hard progress so far working on the drive but heres some general pics of underneath take from laying on the floor with the camera:

 

 

 

Discovered a small hole on the offside rear which will need welding up:




Have a mobile welder round in the next couple of days to sort that, then I can underseal that side.

 

Have sent the rear calipers off to Bigg Red Ltd to have refurbished in silver and have also dropped my rear copper brake lines off to the local motor factors to make me some new ones up.

Thats where I am up to so far. This is the first time ive ever done anything like this so any tips would be greatly appreciated from those of you that have done this before.

Matthew

 

Keep up the good work.
Nice car

 

Looking good matey. Fook painting the floor whack the undersealer on.

 

Looking good mate


Brian

 

Not much of an update but have some new fuel hose and jubiliee clips and new copper brake lines:



Also the hole has now been welded up:

 

Next on the list is to order some new rear brake discs and pads (I'd love a Reyland 300 kit but I think I am just going to get standard discs and some Ferrodo or EBC pads for now) and also some new bushes for the rear beam. Deciding between either Powerflex ones or standard ones if you can still get them new from Ford?

 

Looks really nice in the first pic, good work.

 

Get power flex mate but don't poly bush the trailing arms

 

That trailing arm was close to the spring coming through, I did a similar thing a few years ago and got a bit carried away too

 

Looking good mate. I started mine about 3/4 years ago and still haven't finished it!

 

Time for a bit of a progress update:

Undersealed the side where I had the welding done:

 

Fitted the new petrol tank in:

 

Gave the rear shocks a lick of paint and painted the rear driveshafts and built them back up:

 

Rear shocks back on the car:

 

 

 

How much oil came out the diff:

 

Silver paint added:

 

Rear Beam bushes out:


Undecided on whether to buy new standard ones or powerlex poly ones? What difference will I notice?

 

New diff oil; should have enough to do the front diff as well as its a 2 litre bottle:

 

New rear pads:

 

new fuel flap seal:

 

Got my rear calipers reconditioned by Bigg Red Ltd, only took them six days to turn around:

 

Diff now done:

 

New rear discs:


Thats where I'm up to so far; next is to strip the rear trailing arms down, get the rear beam powdercoated and paint the rear ARB.

 

Nice work!

Been meaning to change to filler seal on mine for years, never got round to it... How do you get the funnel bit out?!

 

nice progress matty, nice to see it again and that its in good hands, keep it up

 

About time to update my restoration thread:

I took the rear beam and trailing arms to the powdercoaters and had them done in gloss black and painted the rear arb yellow to match the rear shocks.
I also bought new rear trailing arm bearings from Graham Goode and fitted those and fitted new powerflex rear beam bushes. Then rebuilt the rear back together.

 

 

Then put it back onto the car along with the rear brakes:

 

Just a few jobs left on the rear now; bleed the brakes and clean and fit the exhaust, then I can drop it down on its wheels add fuel turn it round and start on the front end!