Thread: Paint

I’m jealous of the shed and time you are able to spend on it. If I get more than 10 hours a month I’m lucky rest of time is life - work/rest/housework etc etc. very little time left for my RRC ☹️

Originally Posted by Meccles

I’m jealous of the shed and time you are able to spend on it. If I get more than 10 hours a month I’m lucky rest of time is life - work/rest/housework etc etc. very little time left for my RRC ☹️

^^ THIS.

Not to mention the large hole that is waiting for you to fall in if you mention working on the car on a weekend, when there are "commitments".
Those same "commitments" you just can't tolerate and were not told about beforehand.

you know what I'm eluding to

Oh yeah ... boss women is getting most un-impressed.... I've been trying to spend at least an hour each evening on the car (that's why it is taking so incredibly long to get anywhere). Everything is "back" this week. I should have had the car finished by now. Every evening of the week is now full again, so progress will stop. It also means I'm out in the shed until 11:30pm most nights (by the time the kids are fed and put into bed ... etc... its 9:30 by the time you get outside).

I have two weeks off work starting today, so hopefully I'll find enough time to get the damn car back together so I can drive it by then (or it'll be left sitting like it is now for months on end).






See the issue with giving the bumper and C.... er, actually they are D pillars a tidy up. Look at the rear window frame ... and blackout treatment on to car now. Before it looked quite ok..... Now it looks terrible!

With time, you need to remember the "searching" time. Say 30minutes to refit those 'D' pillar covers............... Then add in 2hours searching for the damn clips that hold them in......... Then pulling the bloody things from the other car so you can use those clips (Oh, and the other car had rusty D pillars. The reason for this is they put sound deadening foam behind them .... which traps the water in there.

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Oh yeah ... boss women is getting most un-impressed.... I've been trying to spend at least an hour each evening on the car (that's why it is taking so incredibly long to get anywhere). Everything is "back" this week. I should have had the car finished by now. Every evening of the week is now full again, so progress will stop. It also means I'm out in the shed until 11:30pm most nights (by the time the kids are fed and put into bed ... etc... its 9:30 by the time you get outside).

I have two weeks off work starting today, so hopefully I'll find enough time to get the damn car back together so I can drive it by then (or it'll be left sitting like it is now for months on end).






See the issue with giving the bumper and C.... er, actually theyooki are D pillars a tidy up. Look at the rear window frame ... and blackout treatments I on to car now. Before it looked quite ok..... Now it looks terrible!

With time, you need to remember the "searching" time. Say 30minutes to refit those 'D' pillar covers............... Then add in 2hours searching for the damn clips that hold them in......... Then pulling the bloody things from the other car so you can use those clips (Oh, and the other car had rusty D pillars. The reason for this is they put sound deadening foam behind them .... which traps the water in there.

seeya,
Shane L.

Ha! Trying pulling it apart 6 years ago and remembering where stuff is. 50% of time is spent looking 25% thinking only 25% actually doing anything

I found when I was restoring my 80" 30 odd years ago & stil working . I needed to spend at least 1 to 2 hours each night to make any progress. As for loosing parts I have put in a safe place so as not to loose them I can spend a week some times looking as I keep some parts at the workshop , some in the shedat home & some under the bed.
This is looking good. Makes me want a RRC.

Agreed. Tuscan Blue is making me damn jealous actually.

Well I learnt the tricks for fitting the bonnet. ( the hard way of course ).




I stupidly didn't ask for help putting the bonnet on ... Its actually really easy to lift on... lift into place, line the hinges up and slide in at the back.... then lifts (it'll push hard against the scuttle) and sit on the bonnet prop, then line up and bolt on the hinges.



I carefully lowered down the bonnet to check the gaps everywhere so I didn't chip any paint.................. yeah that didn't work. You have to look at a different spot on these cars to every other car I've had the bonnet off..... The scuttle... it sits really high at the back. You have to adjust the bonnet as far away from the car as its adjustment will allow to clear the scuttle.




Its needs to clear this high point.



I moved tried slowly moving the adjustment in ... but pretty much the bonnet as far forward as it needed to go was where it needed to be to clear the scuttle..... But that didn't explain this ..... How in the hell did that chip in the paint happen .........



Groan .................. The damn spacers has dropped down while I was trying different adjustments.

I gave it a quick hose off to clean the windows and remove all of the dust.





I still needed to sort a front bumper.... I arranged to buy an early ARB bar from Trav about 3months ago .... But I've stuffed him around so much now I'm not brave enough to see if he still has it I've had a look around ... and I actually have 2 bumpers and 2 bullbars here (how on earth have I accumulated them). One bullbar is alloy ( crap that would bend to easily ). The bent ARB bar off the car and two bumpers but not a set of plastic end caps. I grabbed this a couple of weeks back too (thinking it could be crap).





The bar is ancient ... probably dating back to the 70's... but still seams sound. I have spent quite a bit of time with a flap disc and wire brush in an angle grinder cleaning it up. The reason I chose this out of the crap here is its just a length of RHS ...



$30 including delivery on ebay... Don't worry, I have no intention of bolting it on (protruding it would be a real danger to pedestrians). I'll cut the backing plate off and weld the sleeve to the bottom of the bullbar. Then paint the thing with the same stone guard paint I've used on the rear bar.

I just cable tied all the wires inside out of the way and whipped upto the petrol station to put some gas and petrol in it. Its drives really nicely. Undrivable on petrol (I'll need to order in a pump and filter)... Oh, and with a stop at my parents on the way home ( as I'm all to familiar with how a loose wheel fits ... and I was sure this thing had a loose wheel). Fortunatly my father had a 27mm socket and bar there..... I was wrong though, it didn't have a loose wheel........................ It had three loose wheels

seeya
Shane L.