im going over the top with this car now i think its you lot, doing cars up real nice, buying all these nice new bits, making me do it more than what i should

i got a price and part number for a heater motor cover the other day and gunna get one just to the fact that i broke mine and the spare i have has faded, whats up with me, i got 3 kids to feed, well 4 in october

damn you all

i dunno, stiill, i was taught, if ya gunna do a job, do it right! and thats what im doing

 

lol lol lol lol you cant blame us matey

you have got a real nice rs jay you aint going over the top with it, like you say, if your gonna do job might aswell do it right the first time


you best start doing more overtime mate

 

my dads cousin is over at the mo so he hasnt had time to help me, with them over and his work etc so next week i will be back out there and i hope it dont rain as i really need it back on the road asap.

once the bays together and the engines back in im gunna get the engine running etc so i can drive it to hopfully my uncles place to spray it.
just hope we can sort the hydrovain out, as it keeps cutting out and the old one we used for the bay,althoigh works fine and will do the job its fucking noisy and the gauge is busted so were not 100% sure what the pressure is but were sure its still around 70 psi, give or take
im gunna try and borrow my uncles devilbiss gravity feed gun to spray the car with, hope it still works its been hung in his work shop for years and has only be used a few times still my dads norm devilbiss spray gun is spot on but its a pain when the pain gets low and ya got to angle it etc

 

good mate, glad your keeping on it!!! dont want you selling up for a lexus now do we

you've done bloddy well in your situation dude... credit to ya

 

yeah its a real credit to you jay, you have a really nice turbo there


im going on spray course soon, when i go back to work on monday i should find out when im doing it. mmm a nice new devilbliss i think

 

cheers guys.

what ya guys reckon on this.
i got some cream leather that i was gunna use for the head lining and the stuff that was left was gunna be for the piping on the seats but cos the leather retrim isnt gunna happen now i still got this cream stuff, its quite thick, but you think i should try and use it for the headlining still?

 

jayRS

are the seats leatherd up jay??? if they are then i would do it. if they aint i wouldnt do it matey

 

na the seats aint mate, might do them in the futue or maybe some half leathers

 

jayRS


i would leave it mate if it was me, i think the stock frst trim is nice

 

i got a leather sofa and man it can be hot in the summer thing is when i hadleather in my old xr2 it wasnt to bad, apart from burning ya back or legs when the sun was hot

dunno were see what happens, i got a spar head lining that aint all that out a frst so might trim than and see what i think, dont have to fit it.

 

i'd leave it jay... even if you do get the recaro's done in half leather i'd still leave the head lining as original

 

yeah i think i prob will.

just have to find some stuff to clean it, its got a few little dirty marks on it since i started this rebuild.

 

job for mr muscle

 

as long as he does it him self as he loves the jobs i hate

 

 

 

go put ur pink marrygolds on jay lol

 

:gayflag:

 

 

jayRS

lol lol lol lol

 

 

 

me and you need words boys!

 

bring it on tough guy

 

say hello to my little friend

 

lol lol lol now now kids

 

 

lol lol lol lol

 

 

alrite jay, did you get work done on your car today???

 

its sunday mate, day of rest.

plus i had birthday party to go to, only a kiddy one but i couldnt get out of it

all ive done is modded the second bumper indicator.

so thats that.
but im hoping to be out working on the car again tomorrow, but i need my dad to do the welding as were gunna do filler repair panle.

once thats in i can grind it up and skim it will filler to blend in, but we know filler shrinks so if i put the skim on now and sand it once engines in and running etc, that will give it time to set and shrink.
plus once the panels on i can spray shit loads of wax in there and then seal the gap round the inside lip like ford should of done and get the rest of the rear inner arch stone chipped.

i am getting pissed off though, i havent really touched the car in 3 weeks as i got fucked off with the brake and fuel lines not going back on right so fucked it off till i felt like going back to the bitch.

i recommend a punch bag close to hand for anyone that is restoring or going to be restoring a car

 

did you have jelly and ice cream jay??? lol lol lol

3 weeks mate!!!!


come on mate dont give up and get stuck in again. i know what you mean sometimes though. just gotta keep at it plus winters round the corner matey.

 

no, no jelly and ice cream

yeah i really should get on, and dont say about winter, i think by the temp at night over here its focking here already

 

jayRS


come on mate keep with it you have come this far dont give up

get ur uncle garage for the winter months

have you done work on the frst ???

 

little up date coming mate

 

right tbh today i couldnt really be fu cked to do anything, by the time i got home it was about 12 cos i had to be out early to do some things, then i had to pack some bits and get my ass to post office, but about 6 pm i decided i would go out to the shed and do something,

any how i decied it was about time i re-studded my arches seeing as i cant get to the car to work on that and the arches need to be done beofre the paint job anyhow.

as you all know, these arches can be a fuc ker to get off, they snap, spin or the nuts rounds where its so rusty, so i cut the nut off with a drimmel


first up, remove the stud and prep it for glue






prep for glue




trial fit to see that the head sits lower than the arch



im using M4 stainless screws with 2 slots that i cut in to the sides for added strenth, it dont look much buit with the glue im using it does wonders, trust me, i done the driver s rear arch the other year.
the screws are cut down to about 20mm as the ones i got were too long but they came cheap so its all good.




some of you might know this stuff, (and 1 defo will) its expensive sh it, and fu king good stuff and i er, ....was given it when i used to work at my last place



all glued in, trust me you would need a crow bar to pull this arch off and even then your prob tear the arch before pulling a stud its that good.





not the neatest, but you dont get much time with this stuff and it stinks!
last arch i done the other year, the pot i pumped the firs lot into (as it mixes as its coming down the tube) went off and started smoking within 4 mins! but it was fu cking hot in the shed at the time.

any how, 2 are done and 2 need to be done, which ill be doing tomorrow.

 

quality bad boy!!! good idea.. might have to tell me where to get some of that pukka glue

 

you wont get that anywhere i dont think mate.

that glue will stick anything.
put it this way, its norm used to stick things to wind turbine blades ( i used to build them) and if you have 3 40 meter blades spinning with a tip speed of 200MPH you cant afford to have things falling off.

it does go hard, not like a super glue/aruldite type hard, if you laid a line of it out and let it go ff you can bend it 90 degree and it wont break, but it dont bend easy, depending on the thick ness that is.
but as soon as you stick 2 bits togethere with it thats it, it wont come apart.
at work once when a blade was broke out it lifted the planing strip ( strip of alloy) and they glued it back down with this stuff, so imagen the strip glued down, a 7 ton turnine blade stuck to it with resin and the glued they used for joining it, then a crane lifting the blade out and it "breaking" out leaving the cr@p stuck to this strip and the blade coming out, thats a lot of pressure being pulled on the planning strip, and it stays there.
the strip is screwed to the mould also, but once its been pulled out the screws are glued in also with this stuff.
any how if it can withstand about 10 pluss ton pulling on it, it can with stand a 8mm nut pulling it to the body of the car

the name of it is plexus, and from what i was told its over £75 a tube lucky i got er, was given 2 tubes of it.
but it does have a use by date and that was over a year ago but still good enough for me.

 

not the sort of stuff u would wana put on a work colleagues chair then?? or actually, maybe it is the sort of stuff u want for office funnies lol

 

its good stuff mate, they stopped using it on the blades and started using this syuper glue, prob cause its cheaper but this new super glue they use is fucking good stuff too.
some guy was putting some on when the syringe burst and covered his face, the guy put his had up to the side of his head (had glove on) and you can guess what happened

few hours up the hospital to remove the glove.

i didnt get any of that stuff, so can say if its much good or not but its stronger than normal super glue