Triumph TR7 Restoration: Front End Preparation
Time to get cracking on the restoration again!
I start on the front end, stripping and priming the engine bay, front panel and wings.
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Triumph TR7 Project is back underway!
After many delays, the TR7 project is finally back underway. I even made a video about the story so far for my YouTube channel – come and check it out!
Odds’n’Ends
The sills are now more or less finished at last. 🙂 Just a couple of little bits to finish filling, no more than an hour or so to do. Next up is the wheelarches, that’s certainly not one of my favourite jobs! It’s impossible to do any grinding work in there without getting a faceful
Rear End – still to do
A quick round up of everything that needs doing before the back end is done: Finish up filling and shaping the rear sills Weld a couple of patches to the wheelarch lips (they’re good enough to not need replacing outright) Finish up the boot area and paint (at least in primer for now) Go over
Slight hitch
I was just on my way to work on the TR last sunday in my Astra, I pulled up to a junction, and the engine died. Uh oh. When I tried to restart it, I got a strange whirring noise from the starter – I’ve heard that before. A quick check and sure enough, the
A sad day
Well, today (Yesterday!?) was the cars’ last day out on the road as a 2ltr TR7. The road tax expired today, and with the MOT also due in a couple of weeks, I decided it wasn’t worth retaxing it. If I’d been confident that she could have sailed through the next MOT without too much
Nothing to report…
….Because for once, the ‘7 is behaving itself. While I haven’t strayed too far from home, I have racked up about 100 miles over the last few days, all with no problems. It’s good to have it back again! As for the oil light, I have done precisely nothing about it. I’ll probably get around
Back again!
I bet you thought I’d given up, hadn’t you? Well I have been busy recently, and my recent house move meant I was offline for a few weeks. Anyway: The brakes are now finished, and I’m happy to report that the car is back on the road at last. The brakes are still rubbish, but
I haven’t given up…
I’ve just been very busy of late – not to mention poor! I’m in the middle of moving house among other things right now, so the TR7 has taken a back seat for now. The poor thing has been up on axle stands for nearly a month now. Still, I’ll be cracking on with it
Not good!
Last Tuesday was the monthly Club Triumph local meeting over towards Northampton – I thought that would be an ideal run out to give the car a bit of a shakedown. So off I went and all seemed fine, the tracking was perfect, no juddering at all. Then after about 30 miles, the problems started