Front beam rebuild

Discussion in 'Mech Tech' started by volkswombat, Mar 28, 2018.

  1. Weeeellllllll
    Funny you say that.
    As I'm painting all these bits and tarting it all up, I do keep glancing at my piles of bolts with their manky heads and thinking how ghastly they'll look when fitted to the nice parts......
     
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  2. Kays Fasteners on fleaBay will sell you some nice shiny ones for not very much...
     
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  3. I just hope my bloody steering box still works when we're rolling again or it'll be the end of me:mad:
     
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  4. I did warn you
     
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  5. Really need to watch the pennies so might clean up what I've got then after they've been spannered back on , give the heads a little touch up with some rustoleum to match
     
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  6. Fingers crossed
     
  7. Get a small wire wheel in your drill, clamp ‘em in a Workmate, and give ‘em a good clean up...
     
  8. Or graunch them between my buttocks on a leisurely stroll round Lyndhurst. Same result:thumbsup:
     
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  9. EggBoxes

    EggBoxes Supporter

    Mammoth front end job, always good to get past the mucky stages and onto cleaner bits.
    Quality job.
     
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  10. That's certainly another way :thumbsup:
     
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  11. Theres always another way!
     
  12. Can you turn it cleanly from lock to lock with oil in it?
     
  13. Back to scraping underseal:mad:
    Today I as mostly been cleaning up the front bellypan wotsit
    Got this cheap a few years back to replace my rusty as ***** one, used as is until now but as my bus is heading for concours condition, thought I'd make the effort.


    Scraped all the underseal off, bathed in white spirit, had a couple of bashes where I assume the previous owner ran aground while doing some offroading in the Quantocks, so I've knocked them out using my panel beating set ( railway sleeper and "not best" hammer), will treat the surface rust and paint in sexy satin lingerie black.
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    Yes that's a pic of both sides , just so you can grasp the enormity of what I undertook today instead of going to Church.
    I will post an equally long and yet somewhat insufficient update when I get round to painting it.
    Standby.
     
  14. It's never pleasant being bashed in the Quantocks...
     
  15. At a WW1 exhibition in Scarborough an elderly lady told us that her father was shot in the Dardanelles.
     
  16. Yeah it turns ok, tightens up in the middle which I believe is correct.
    Not adjusted properly yet though, will remain to see how good it is when i get to drive it again......
     
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  17. That'd make your eyes water...
     
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  18. Sproggy4830

    Sproggy4830 Supporter

    Top of my street. Great place .I call in for odd bolt and it's no trouble for them . I feel as though I've stolen the thing with what they charge.
     
  19. Pretty big day, had a reporter from the local rag at the door asking to do a story on today's progress as word had spread about the giganticness of it.
    I bolted the accelerator linkage to the cab floor.
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    Sweatin man

    AND

    actually found the bolts for fitting gear shift plate to the floor. So I inserted them. A bit.
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    By this time I was sweating like an aboriginal on a drink drive charge.

    As if that wasn't enough, I then proceeded to clean up the front gear shift rod, brake pedal. And the clutch pedal . I know. Too much.
    But they are now ready to paint.
    This is a thread with progress.
    All you munters what build engines in a week or top your oil up monthly can get stuffed. This is real life, in real time.
    Respect.
     
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  20. Can you please give that washer bottle a wipe over?
     

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