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13th May 2020, 21:53 | #1 |
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Lockdown stripdown
Although I'm still working, the lack of vehicular movement has meant I've been able to tackle a few jobs on the 75 over the last few weeks.
I started with a front end refresh. The bumper came off with the following carried out:
Then my attentions turned to the rear arches. With the car in the air, both wheels and arch liners were removed. Fuel line guard plate removed, cleaned up and Hammerited in hammered black. Road rash to inner arches cleaned up, degreased, treated with Jenolite, etch primed then painted with smooth silver Hammerite (which is uncannily close to Starlight Silver!). The inner cheeks to the rear sills around the trailing arm bushes also received a similar treatment and the brake pipes cleaned up where they pass up alongside the fuel tank. The backplates and discs also got a lick of black Hammerite to tidy them up. Now all back together and looking pretty tidy.
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How much dried mud did you find behind the arch covers in the front of the rear wheel arch?
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It's all neat, a real treat! Well done.
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well done that looks really good.
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Nice job(s)!
I thought about removing my wheel arch liners whilst I was doing brakes recently but the nuts / threads holding them on looked like they might round / snap off if I rushed the job. Did you clean up the threads with a nut or die or just wirebrush first? Just a thought ..... Wirebrushing and painting your calipers to match the wheel arch would look good? Keep up the good work and stay safe John
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what red pipe did you use for the air intake pipe?
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Terrific work!
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Need to tackle the front liners next but can't remove the rusted screws that attached it to the sill end cap
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The threads holding the the fuel line guard on the o/s are more important - I gave them a pre-brushing and squirt of PlusGas, but still sheared of the one the five when undoing . The remaining four cleaned up nicely though so the original nuts refitted without bother. I've put thought to painting the calipers but as this requires special paint it's a job to go on the list. Question is - yellow, orange or lime green Crawling round in the arches and under the sills is no joy so hope I won't need to give them any further attention bar cleaning for a good while!
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It was sourced via my favourite online emporium:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Red-Air-D...r/202755398245 70mm diameter fits perfectly. The 50cm length was slightly too long but didn't warrant trimming. The original tube was pretty gone!
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