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Reattached the spare wheel bracket
I reattached the repaired spare wheel carrier to the repaired bonnet. I didn't paint the carrier as I'm going for the patina look. I'll leave the rivets raw too.
I used 4.8mm x 12mm rivets that I bought from Ebay. Was around $20 for 500, so well pleased with that. The rivets came in handy for the repairs to the tray.
In the tray, I replaced missing or broken rivets, reattached the alloy strips that line the tray floor and reattached shelf of the tool box inside the rear guard to the outer panel, fixed tool box hinges etc etc.
A little gentle taps with a rubber mallet and the bows to the tool box lids where mostly flattened. The close nicely now and look much better.
Lot's of little jobs done. Another step closer to getting Regie back on the road.
Still have to lift the tray and do some clean up on the rear chassis - i.e. clean and paint where necessary, but nothing major and certainly no rust repairs.
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Zenith Stromberg CD-175 Overhauled
I have rebuilt carby's before, but found it a little hit and miss, so decided to send this one off for expert attention. Nigel did a great job and used the carby kit I purchased at the start of the project.
The inlet pipe and carby was media blasted and parts replated.
The old diaphragm was torn.
I've included a few before and after shots.
Carby has been refitted and looks a treat.
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A bit of patch work on the tray
From a parts car, I had a damaged front panel that sits behind the front bumper, below the grill that was beyond economic repair.
So, I decided to use it to make some patch panels for the tray.
From a earlier post, I'd knocked 2 the 'stab' holes in the tray side back into shape. My cunning plan is to use the patches to cover this damage, and glue / rivet them on.
One of the existing rivets in the tray will be used, so it should marry in quite well with nicely spaced rivets around each patch panel.
I cut the aluminum with a multi compound blade on my angle grinder. Worked really well. Then dressed the edges and made the radius / rounded corners with a file.
Coated the patches with etch primer, and will repaint in drab green when my new mini spray gun arrives, along with a stack of other bits and pieces.
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More electrical gremlins chased away
Spent a few hours sorting the dash out on Sunday.
I purchased an instrument gauge o'ring kit off ebay and disassembled both gauges to clean the faces, test the temperature and fuel gauges and repaint the metal ring that holds the glass to the gauge.
Turned out better than I expected and surprisingly, not that hard to disassemble and complete. Looks wayyy better than when I started. Won't win any awards, but I'm wrapped with the results.
Replaced the bulbs with fancy LED ones, that light up the gauges nicely.
Repaired the odd frayed wire behind the dash, cleaned the earth connections, reconnected the wires to the dash accessory plug, which had been cut to provide power to a 2-way radio.
I also replaced the indicator stalk with a NOS Lucas unit as the old one was faulty and the dash light switch with one from my parts car.
I now have all dash lights working, including the map light, wipers, windscreen washer, heater fan, horn, headlights (high and low) and side lights and even the light in the oil temperature gauge.
Indicators are still proving elusive, but I'll figure that one out when I get the tray reattached and start on repairing the black out lights.
I've included a photo of the dash when I first picked Regie up. Didn't take any good one's of the dash before I started the dash work as I couldn't find my camera.