After the mess of the windscreen surround, I carried on the other day with stripping out the rest of the wiring and the last of the interior. The loom is all out now, each connection labelled and the whole lot is sat in a box waiting for my attention later on in the year. There’s […]
Ever have a day when you wish you hadn’t started something? I went to the garage tonight with the intention of removing the last of the dashboard and the wiring loom. However, the inside of the car was a bit dark, so I thought I might as well have a poke at the windscreen to
Now that the car is the right way round, I carried on with preparing the engine for removal and stripping everything out of the engine bay. It took me about four hours, but it’s all more or less done now. Apart from a couple of jubilee clips that were rusted solid (I hacksawed a couple
I managed to get the car turned around today, now I can start work on the front end at last. Wheels on, back on the ground: And out of the garage, blinking in the sunshine: And with one proud owner: Now the bad bits: There’s a bit more rust than I’d really like, but nothing
Nearly finished on the rear end now. I finished up the painting, then refitted the bootlid (again): Before reassembling the axle: And Installing: Apart from struggling to manhandle it in place and line everything up (My other half turned up at this point and helped out, which was useful 🙂 ), it was quite a
Work towards getting the rear end done (until stripping and prepping for the respray) is now well under way. I finished the last of the filling this evening (the seatbelt mount point where I had to weld in a patch – I wish I’d remembered to do that before I put the rear deck back
As mentioned in my last entry, I needed to fill the gaps between the rear wings and the deck. I’d decided that the best way of doing this was lead soldering (or body soldering, or lead loading – whatever you want to call it), so the kit was duly ordered and delivered from Frost. I
Blimey – seven months to the day since my last blog entry! I’d like to say I haven’t been idle since then, but unfortunately as far as the TR7 is concerned, I have. The dark nights and cold weather restrict my ability to do much work at the garage, and frankly I’d prefer not to
Work has continued with the rear deck repairs, I’ve now welded on some fresh metal to replace the rusty stuff I ground out the other day. I’ll be taking the rear deck back to the garage at the weekend for a test fit, to see what needs tidying up and fettling, then it just remains
I’ve spent a bit of time recently painting a few suspension parts and various brackets, as well as the bumper. First up, cleaning and prepping: Then the first coat, POR 15 again: As you can see, I had to get a bit creative with hanging this stuff up to dry. Even after a couple of