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Saturday, 28 March 2009

Shedtune F1

I'm liking this new F1 look managed to catch highlights on the BBC red button after being woken by 1 year old sleep thief
Great to see local Tractor boy up there on Pole the only bitter sweet point being his team boss looks like a cross between a slug and a sleazy used car salesman -I just cant seem to warm to him! Also good to see the Williams on the pace - I have a lot of respect for Frank Williams, I reckon he has a bit of Shedtune in his blood! Speaking of Shedtune the MK1 2000 is in the Shed having a few jobs done to get it ready for the forthcoming Club Triumph HCR event on the tinker list;
Install comfy passenger seat - The buckets are fine for shorter events but no so good for relaxing in on the long distance endurance events and as the start is a 300 mile trip away from base I cant put up with Homers whinging about his numb arse!
Throttle cable modification - more on this later
Full service- fluids,brakes etc
Tune- I might even get it down to the Rolling Road
That's about it really
When that lot is done the Snag will be rolled into the shed for its resurrection- pictures of the thing above

Monday, 16 March 2009

Constipated Shed

Following accidentally buying a 1974 Stag on the way home from work last Tuesday I have caused a bit of a blockage in the shed - garage/shed is now full of bits for the estate project and the drive full of Stag-I have found myself in the unfortunate position of having to plan what I an doing next! The plan looks something like this Estate -finish front end work ,plonk suspension back on to allow it to be rolled out and put under cover- this week MK1 2000-into garage sort a few jobs to prepare it for the HCR -first week April Stag-into garage finish welding, fit engine- April / May Estate- back into garage get ready for 10CR See when you write it down and make a list it all becomes a piece of piss!

"Bread roll with those spares Sir?"

This weekend was the CT Dinner and awards night -thanks to everyone for getting it sorted
I found myself on the noisy "Northern Gits" table so felt right at home -apart from the lack of scantily clad slappers it could have been a re-run of the RBR08 Forton Services stop Raider looked after
I used the excuse of visiting the London area to pick up/drop off a few spares my route on the Saturday took in Guildford and Milton Keynes and I ended up with the following-
Perspex rear 2000 screen -Doug T promised me a money back guarantee if it didn't make the rally car go 10mph faster!
14" Steel wheels -I will give these a whizz on the MK1 rallyish car
MK2 Front valance -for the estate
MK2 n/s wing
LT77 5 speed box and shortened shifter -for the RV8 estate MK2 -(I now have a spare RV8 LT77 Bell housing if anyone is interested)
All I have to do now is get cracking and get all these bits on the various cars

Winging it

Well following the "scissor jack" shed puller experiment which worked pretty well the next stage was to track down a decent wing to go back on,thanks to the CT forum i got in touch with a fellow rust collector in Clevedon named Phil -he is also the area organiser for the TSSC in Somerset top bloke and he was breaking a 2500 with a decent drivers wing -which is now ready to weld onto the estate
Wing trimmed and trail fitted -still needs a couple of repairs
Inner arch needs a bit of rebuilding but not in too bad a state at all

Sunday, 1 March 2009

Shed estate project

new bits going in!
all the bent bits removed!
bent engine cross member
bent rails cut out
more bent bits and previous bodge
Engine out
bent bits!
Shed estate starts-
Cutting out the bent bits and starting the slow process of putting straight bits back in!-Will let the pictures do the talking

Project Shed estate underway

After blagging back my old 1973 MK2 2000 Estate following a front end and rear end crash it needed a
bit of sorting out
The crank was thrusting so much the clutch wouldn't work and it generally needed a "good seeing to in the shed"
The basic plan was to sort out the bent bits then slap in a Rover V8 engine-easy!
The bent bits turned out to be a bit more bent than I thought -
Front chassis legs
Headlight panel
Radiator panel
Engine cross member
inner wings
Top of O/S wing U section
O/S wing
I will let the pictures do the talking!
I managed to get hold of some chasis legs and a headlight panel through club members so the grinding started .....and the slow rebuild was underway!