Thread: Little Miss Adventure

Well I hope your impressed that I can still work on my project when I'm not even in the country

I have a firewall on the way up from VIC thanks to a member on here. I have bought a full set of lights (set of 8) brand new in uk for £20 even though I have LEDs for the rear I also have full set of gaiters for hand brake and gear lever etc and I also have new red and yellow nobs to go on

There is a small patch repair needed on the new firewall the small patch on the chassis a little bit if tlc on the doors and then paint when the weather warms up... Oh and I need to get a radiator if we can't get the one we have fixed up

So a bit of an update..not a great deal has been done. We do now have the big shed which means a fair bit has been moved out of the garage giving me room too work.

Ian cut out the only section of rust on the chassis



and patched it with a piece of metal...No don't laugh we know its crude but Ian doesn't have any experience with welding so he is learning as he goes along..it certainly doesn't look pretty but it feels very strong so as long as it holds the foot of that tray thats all thhat matter

This is it patched



The chassis has been rubbed back and rust converter applied mainly to the areas which are difficult to get the grinder into and as you can see its completely bare no firewall or anything on it



So hopefully next weekend the chassis will be degreased and then painted along with axles springs and all the other pieces that have been rubbed back and are just waiting for paint.

Today I thought I would also degrease the engine and the gearbox

The engine before being washed





and after as you can see the engine is actually quite colourful





Its getting cleaned as I want to throw some paint on this as well...I wanted to paint it with everything in-situ, however I don't know whether that is possible..of course it wouldn't be a great job but was only looking to tidy it up.

I then cleaned the gearbox I was actually very pleased with the way this came up.

before a good degreasing



and after almost looks like new





So thats it for the moment, hopefully next weekend I can update with painted pics

looking good there DB

Mrs hh

I'm really just itching to get it done now..so hopefully it will be full steam ahead.

Another productive day...

We got the Chassis out of the garage as we have only been able to rub back the top part of the chassis due to it being on axle stands.

it not easy getting a chassis out of the shed with a midget and a tall bird that has a buggered back

anyway kept it on its side so we could rub back the underneath. concerned about keeping it there we tied it off to the Toyota (sacrificial lamb ) so it tilted slightly towards us and then put another strap in the opposite direction with less tension tied off to the series tray just in case a gust of wind blew form the other direction sending it over.







Then we got to work with the grinders and the wire wheels.

Once that was finished I gave the entire chassis a good degreasing and jet wash.

As I cleaned up Ian found a crack on one of the cross members



Ian ground it back and put a bit of weld on top.. (I definitely think the welding is getting better)





I then hit the Chassis with some rust converter in the areas that were to tricky to get to, and finally I got to work with the painting.

The chassis is laying with its underside facing upwards






I have placed 4 coats on it with a 4:1 mix however tomorrow I will flip it over and give the top side a few coats and then top up all the other coats I did today.

OK Chassis flipped over and painted on the other side...Some more bits had some paint thrown over them as well....Paint didn't go on to well today I think its to do with the heat...its so hot I'm sure the paint was startin to go off before it was put on.

Oh well the main thing is its done and we can et it back in the garage and get some bits back on now

All sat out ready to be painted..you know its not easy moving an axle on your own



after painting





and the chassis all done

So painted the engine today...

Had a couple of epic fails.. Firstly I had the wrong colour paint. I was after a darkish grey paint close to cast iron...we did pick up aluminum in colour however the colour swatch on the can was what I was after...and low and behold was nothing like it..came out much lighter.

The second fail, after I painted the engine with the high temp paint I discovered that I'm supposed to bake it at 200 Degrees for the paint to cure. woooopsie!! my engine will not fit in the oven.


So I'm hoping that one the paint will dry enough that we don't lose half of it putting the engine back in to the chassis, so we can cure it hopefully by running the engine once the time comes.

Anyway dont laugh at my what now looks like a V8 block..

So today I did chores around the house


First of all I did the washing. Dont tell Ian




And after that I did some baking




they came out OK and I'm actually pleased I painted the engine the colour I did now as this was the colour I meant to paint it and I think it would of just been too dark





So the only thing left to paint for this engine is the fan and then all the bits can go back on