Been working in the garage and at the work shop the last few days. In the garage I have been going through all the glass, finding the best windows to make a matching set. It looks like I have a full set all factory tint (slight green hue), same manufacture as well. But most of them had been tinted a long time ago so they had scratches through to the glass and plenty if air bubbles/patches that had lifted. Out came the hair dryer and the film came off nicely, then the polish came out. After that I could see the handles on the rear side windows where far from ok and one of them the chrome had almost completely come off the 2 fixing brackets. Plan B was formed and so did the sand paper, rubbed them back, cleaned, etch primed and now colour matched to the car.
All the glass is stored again now with the set I intened to use sat ontop of the pile.
The window wiper mech was dug out and after a quick clean it is clear at least one of the wiper gears is going to be replaced despite a good go with the thread file I just dont see there is enough thread left due to heavy oxidising of the aluminium. I did spray the tube between wiper gears and the electric motor gears looked ok. So new arm gear and top bushes with nuts need to be ordered and a quick spray of the electric motor is on the todo list. I did rub back, etch and spray the motor mounting bracket the same as the car while it was off.
In the work shop the front brake pipes have been flared and installed tonight and even had time to have another go at the front sub frame front mounts, bit of a pain but with a longer pry bar I got there and test fitted the new heavy duty towing eye, so the tow back to home shouldn't get the heart beating quite so badly this time. Was a bit worried about the paint work last time.
2 days ago an important part part arrived .... yep I found a 1275 crank in good condition and at a reasonable price, so I need to paint the other side of the engine block as I gave up until I knew what was going on with it. So of course the other night it seemed like a great idea to take the bell housing off and tap the bolt holes, they where in desperate need of doing and was a quick job with my new tap and die set. Bloody great thing to have in the arsenal, bolts go all the way by hand now, nice.
Sadly the big half term push is probably over now as I am flat out at work and am out Friday and Saturday night. Also have a private job Saturday morning, but that does mean I should have enough pennies in the bank to send the gear box off to be re built though and still have enough to buy the other gaskets and bits to complete the engine re build :)
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