Many months ago I spotted this car on eBay and not being to far away from me it cought my attention. I wasn't sure at first and the car disappeared off eBay but a few days later it re appeared for sale again. I contacted the seller and it turned out he was having a problem with people hitting the buy it now button without even seeing it and failing to make payment or get in contact with him.
Anyway I went to see it and did the deal. It's actually been in a REAL barn for four years. Turned out the guy had bought it with a suspected failed cylinder head gasket but it turned out it had a bad leak from the radiator. Full of enthusiasm he stripped the front end and fitted a nearly new radiator and pipe work then parked it in his barn and never even got it put back together.
As it was when it was pulled out the barn.
I got a mate to trailer it home for me and I rolled it down my street and onto my drive, the engine would run no problem but it had no brakes whatsoever!
So up to now I've been the length of my street in it and got into second gear briefly, I hope the rest of the gears are all happy and the diff doesn't whine but that will make the first proper drive a bit more exciting!
I haven't got any decent pictures but I've almost finished replacing all the brake pipes and flexy hoses, I've just got the rear driver side pipe to replace and there sorted.
Quite a while ago I replaced both engine mounts as the car has the shakes really badly and I thought they might need a refresh. I might of done this the hard way with the cross member in place? Access was very tight but I managed eventually.
The new and old mounts, to be honest the old mounts looked fine to me.
Driver side, this one gets all the heat from the manifold and tends to collapse.
Passenger side, I think this one must be a Porsche item.
Resently I've put the front on axel stands to refurb the front suspension and brakes.
Canny grotty!
Decided to refurbish/renew everything.
After a good clean.
Gave the stub axels a good clean up with a wire brush in my dads old drill and a coat of hammeright. Replaced the control arm and all the rubbers and ball joint with new parts, I also replaced the track rod ends, but I still need to replace the anti roll bar rubbers.
Front calipers looked very grotty.
A good clean up with the wire brush in the drill and they came up really nice, then I blew the pistons out with an air line and loads of crud and water came out with them! I don't know how but the pistons were in mint condition so I got some new seals from big red and rebuilt them, this was very easy so I'm glad I did it. After a million coats of hammeright and a dusting of clear coat they were sorted.
A bit premature but I picked these up aswel
I'm planning on deleting the side rub strips, areal and rear wiper. The rubber strips missing off the rear bumper, I might leave it off and drill holes in like some of the race cars I've seen?
Any ideas for mods or wheel colours welcome.
:bye: :bye:
Anyway I went to see it and did the deal. It's actually been in a REAL barn for four years. Turned out the guy had bought it with a suspected failed cylinder head gasket but it turned out it had a bad leak from the radiator. Full of enthusiasm he stripped the front end and fitted a nearly new radiator and pipe work then parked it in his barn and never even got it put back together.
As it was when it was pulled out the barn.
I got a mate to trailer it home for me and I rolled it down my street and onto my drive, the engine would run no problem but it had no brakes whatsoever!
So up to now I've been the length of my street in it and got into second gear briefly, I hope the rest of the gears are all happy and the diff doesn't whine but that will make the first proper drive a bit more exciting!
I haven't got any decent pictures but I've almost finished replacing all the brake pipes and flexy hoses, I've just got the rear driver side pipe to replace and there sorted.
Quite a while ago I replaced both engine mounts as the car has the shakes really badly and I thought they might need a refresh. I might of done this the hard way with the cross member in place? Access was very tight but I managed eventually.
The new and old mounts, to be honest the old mounts looked fine to me.
Driver side, this one gets all the heat from the manifold and tends to collapse.
Passenger side, I think this one must be a Porsche item.
Resently I've put the front on axel stands to refurb the front suspension and brakes.
Canny grotty!
Decided to refurbish/renew everything.
After a good clean.
Gave the stub axels a good clean up with a wire brush in my dads old drill and a coat of hammeright. Replaced the control arm and all the rubbers and ball joint with new parts, I also replaced the track rod ends, but I still need to replace the anti roll bar rubbers.
Front calipers looked very grotty.
A good clean up with the wire brush in the drill and they came up really nice, then I blew the pistons out with an air line and loads of crud and water came out with them! I don't know how but the pistons were in mint condition so I got some new seals from big red and rebuilt them, this was very easy so I'm glad I did it. After a million coats of hammeright and a dusting of clear coat they were sorted.
A bit premature but I picked these up aswel
I'm planning on deleting the side rub strips, areal and rear wiper. The rubber strips missing off the rear bumper, I might leave it off and drill holes in like some of the race cars I've seen?
Any ideas for mods or wheel colours welcome.
:bye: :bye: