Thread: Little Miss Adventure

Originally Posted by dullbird

how ironic that, that never came up in a forum search
now I feel like an idiot when I thought I was doing a good thing

But you did a good job! You went in to more detail too.

Looking forward to seeing the skin-making tutorial


I didn't mean to spoil christmas

oooooo the goodies have arrived

Just need the bushes to come into stock and the bolts to turn up..

Its Christmas 4 days early

So the bolts that I got were wrong well at least 4 of them are but thanks to Lotz_A_landies for giving me some shackles to fit my 9/16" bolts I made a start, as I managed to get the last bushes i needed yesterday.

SO first I put the front springs on just at the back first.



Ian then helped me carry the axle over as even thought I managed to carry it around on my own to paint it there was no way I could maneuver it on my own to get it in between the chassis and the springs.

Once we did that I put the U bolts and retaining plates on to pin the axle in place.. That also was a bit of a tricky job on my own as you have to squeeze the U bolt to get it in the hole, while holding up the plate and putting on the nut..hahaha

Nice work Lou and looking good.

Just a little thing, you should find it easier to hang the spring on the front/fixed shackle first and then lift it up to connect to the rear/swinging shackle.

Originally Posted by numpty

Nice work Lou and looking good.

Just a little thing, you should find it easier to hang the spring on the front/fixed shackle first and then lift it up to connect to the rear/swinging shackle.

Thanks Numpty but you know us women we do like to do things arse about face

haven't been able to do much really so today I thought I would take the exhaust outside and give it a go with the sand paper.

this is after giving it a good going over





Then I took to it with the exhaust paint to freshen it up a bit think it came up OK



I also took the black paint to the under side of the fender...before trying a bit of paint stripper on the top. well seemed like a little bit to much like hard work to me and also revealed there was a bit of bog on the top of the wings I got to replace my bashed up ones...

So I have decided I will just sand back and through some primer on all the bits I want painted and then paint them rather than stripping them all back.

So thought we would have a blitz at the series today as we were both off...no such luck although we did get a couple of things done.

firstly we have now added the rear springs as I finally got hold of a full shackle set thanks to Vixen.

As you can see Eddie was helping also





Now I don't know if this is right as it doesn't actually show it on the schematics but we nut and bolted both the shackle bolts on the rear where as none are bolted on the shackles at the front.



After putting the springs on I walked over to the axle to get ready to put it in and instantly noticed a small problem.

Can you spot the difference?

passenger side of axle



and drivers side



Oh well I said to Ian perhaps we should take it to someone to fill it in with a weld and re-drill but Ian said he would like to have ago...so I was like OK honey go your best!!

So we cleaned up the hole





and on the underside too...as well as with a file in the actual hole



Then Ian took to it with the welder





after offering up the shock spacer used with the bushes



...Ian took to the hole with an air drill and an uzziemegidget



until the proud part of the spacer sat nice and neatly in the hole.

the underside also had a dab of weld put on and ground back so it was nice and flat and then a quick splash of kill rust on it and bobs your uncle

Fixed



I was quite pleased with the way Ian fixed this up as he has only just started welding let alone filling in holes..it may not be as perfect as some others may do it but we were limited in tools also. originally Ian said he was going to put a plate on it but I thought it would of been better to do it this way.

So lastly I washed heaps of parts in the washer. Including the front brake backing plates (this is them before the wash)



Ready for me to Paint them tomorrow

and then we can start re-assembling the front axle...ready to get some wheels on it

Oh and I bought some custom badges too curious to know how they turn out, they are on there way from the Uk

Diffs are now back in and there is a backing plate sat at each corner ready to start putting all the brake stuff back on.

Ian also has just taken delivery of a new fancy pants flaring kit so we can make the brake lines up for the series does anyone know where we can source the copper pipe from? As we believe this is what we should really use...would help to know what Dia as well and any other helpful info