quick work, shagger. interesting to see the state of the undertray...

nice work russ... now you can see the damaged bit you know what to strengthen and plate ready for the next wales trip!

New rack in...



New turned arms painted...



... and fitted..



On its wheels again...



Engine naked to refit new oil pipe, and clean up a smidge...



The offending pipe that started it all....



Much less caster! hopefully my welding will hold up, I'm tempted to stregthen the area around the welds on the arms.

TBC

wow Russ, good work. wish i could get that kind of stuff done so fast. the van engine is still in the boot of the xantia... that needs work but up until yesterday did run!

I'm only getting stuff done because I've wrecked all the cars and need to fix something before I can go out!

Well, in fairness I'm suprised at how much I've got done so far, I'm about to take the engine over the garage and power wash it with a tin of Gunk, then refit the r/w/b cowlings etc and that's where it'll have to stop until Mr ECAS sends me a new clutch and I dig out a gearbox that hasn't got U/S marked on the top...

(I wish I'd looked a bit closer when i picked it up now..)

Done for the day, needa bath and need to see my family.

Here's where I got to though...



Started building engine up to go back in...



Er.... Thats it...

Have another pic though...




More later in the week when I've found a gearbox that fits and isn't ruined

And such nice straight track rod arms too.. try not to cut corners,l know it seems like a good idea at the time but.... and look after it this time mate.

Being the eternal pessimist, is that chassis slightly wonky after all? or is the picture just from a funny angle? Looking good though! Just need to pretty the rocker covers up a bit..!

Nice work Russ, please don't tell me you did all that before 4 o'clock today! Some of us didn't get our sorry arses out of bed 'till gone 1:30

Sorry jules, yeah, pretty much all of it back together before 4pm Sunday!

Long way to go yet though, I've got loads more bits to sneak into the shotblast/powder at work, and I really feel i should make more of an effort cleaning the engine. Plus, I forgot to order a new clutch and gasket set today, which has put me a bit behind....