The TR7 Restoration has been a work in progress for over a decade now. This section is imported from an old blog I used to run back in the day, alongside the YouTube video uploads I’ve done by way of continuing the blog.
After all the stripping down, I got on with welding the patches in this week. They needed to be fairly level as I’d be welding bits on to them, and this isn’t really one of my best skills. Nevertheless, I think they came out alright: They’re not exactly invisible (I’m not that good!), but once […]
I’ve been a bit busy over the last couple of days, so this post is a little out of date. Anyway: As mentioned in the last post, I had a plan together to tackle the welding and bodywork that needed doing. That was started at the weekend with the removal of the wheelarch. I didn’t
After poking around the nearside wheelarch and footwell, it seems that the rust is a bit more serious than I first thought. There’s a hole in the footwell, obviously from the disintegrating sill area: Apart from the corner bit it’s nothing too bad, although the crossmember underneath may prove tricky. Of more concern is the
The stripping down continued this week; to start with, the doors came out earlier on this week. No problems to report, except discovering the top hinge on the passenger door was close to falling off! There’s two pins in the hinge, the lower one was missing altogether and the top one was sticking halfway out.
The engine and box came out this weekend. 🙂 The first job was to pick up the engine hoist. I’d arranged to borrow one of the works vans for the weekend, but ended up having to go and collect a hire van for work, and pick the hoist up in it on the way back.
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