CG's rebuild thread. PROJECT COMPLETE

PICS.

If you are eagle eyed you'll spot the plate behind the seam sealer. Its a large plate covering a couple rust spots that were cut out, we figured a large plate would look better than a couple smaller ones. Seeing as the chassis has a multitude of Hockley plates anyway, it looks right at home.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...i_build035.jpg

Heres what was lurking in its place before we ground it out & set about re-strengthening the 2 panel skins & plating over.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...rustyLEG02.jpg
Pretty ugly I think you'll agree.

The rear edge of the passenger sill where it meets the arch lip had gone pretty crusty too. This turned out way worse than I had banked on & wasnt too impressed when Grant cut it out into a rather large fist sized hole. Nicely patched back up from about 4 separate peices of steel though. The underside was made concaved too, in order to avoid the side skirt fin sitting proud.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ILL-REPAIR.jpg


Heres the exhaust hanger Grant welded back onto the rear chassis leg. I figured an M10 hardened steel bolt would be stronger than a strip of steel, so the head was ground off to leave a tag for the exhaust rubber to sit against. Almost looks factory!

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ORSTHANGER.jpg


Lastly a couple pics of the battery box I've installed in the boot.

Lid off;
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...TTERYBOX01.jpg

Lid on;
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...TTERYBOX02.jpg

Mounted down with stainless fasteners & wing-nuts underneath.

Nasty bit of rust there.Good to see its all sorted now.
Nice job on the backbox hanger.

Just had the phonecall to collect my Goodridge braided brake lines from AC services.

'Overnight parts from Japan', living upto their name.

nice1 craig/grant lol

Aye. Grant is a star! (GRUNT16V) on here.

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Originally Posted by craig green

Brake lines will be happening any day now. Just ordered the braided flexi's & will set about running copper lines when they arrive. I threw out all my old hoses & pipes (doh) so dont have the fittings etc to use as a reference.

Only jobs I sorted over the weekend was a little more painting of the welded areas & attached the alternator & starter trigger wires etc at the back of the engine block, aswell as some finalising of my alternator tension adjuster.

[edit] the cheapskate HYUNDAI batteries I bought at the 'pound shop' are good for approx 2 digi-pics per pair! How laughable is that?

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IF YOU NEED ANY BITS OF THE BRAKE LINES I SHOULD BE PICKING UP A SCRAPPER NEXT WEEK YOU CAN HAVE ANY OF THE BRAKING SYSTEM OFF THAT FOR FREE IF YOU WANT

cool, dynamic duo

Thanks for the offer Dan. I have taken the pipes to my local factors & got fittings to match up. So I'm sorted on that front. I jsut need to sort T-peices & copper pipe & I'm ready to be getting on with the installation tbh.

The drivers headlamp arrived yesterday, so I fitted that last night along with the new indicator & grille. So the fr end has all new lamps now. Once the painting is done in the wheel arch I'll mount the front bumper & it ought to look like a finished car (despite not being.......).

No probs do you know what fittings and pipe your using? sizes etc.
be useful for when i getb round to doing mine

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Originally Posted by dan_cf40

No probs do you know what fittings and pipe your using? sizes etc.
be useful for when i getb round to doing mine

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See my post a page or two back mate :thumb:
The solid/rigid brake line you use is 4.76mm (3/16") diameter.