Scary hole

Progress has been plodding along in the shed I have moved on from "gunk" flavoured Rizla cigarette papers to a new blend of "tint of Jizer" degreasant following MoleValleys latest reduction in cost on a gallon of the stuff,I feel it gives a more upmarket and rounded taste to the pallet only fitting when you have cars of the class of a Stag in the shed.Tinkering on the 1967 2000 (Known as the "Cairo Taxi") has also got under way in preparation for this years 10CR with the fitting of a working rev counter different steering wheel and replacement of a dodgy overdrive inhibitor switch ,other jobs on the list for the Taxi Replace diff oil seals Fit stag front brakes-After refurbishing calipers,discs and replacing hub bearings Replace carb (HS6) butterfly's and throttle spindles Refurbish brake and clutch master cylinders Fit recliner drivers seat

The discs will live to fight another day just a light skim is needed to get them usable -looking back through the cars history they were replaced in 2000 and done all of 3,000 miles! The calipers gave up their rusty pistons after a two day battle- which I won ,then the sodding boy racer fairy broke into the shed and covered them in "fire red" paint-least he made a good job of it and all I need do is fit the new seal kit and replacement pistons The history file made interesting reading I noted the diff was replaced in 1996 and has only covered 20,000 miles so that will be the one going into the "Taxi" (with new oil seals) this will offset the 14" wheels and give it a bit of help up the steep alpine passes Ellis has planned for us on the 10CR - the higher ratio 2.5 (3.45:1) diff will find its way into the stag to keep the cruising revs down on its RV8 engine coupled to LT77 box

In between those tinkerings I have been setting fire to my overalls and getting on with the welding repairs to the Stag -I note from the cars history- 2003 MOT failure sheet "excess corrosion " N/S rear suspension I wonder if this is when the botcher did his worst and used the paint tin lid for the rear spring locator ..twat!

Anyway you can see some progress below in repairing the body-long way to go yet but I hope to have the repair sections in by the end of the week and the inner sill on,I'm looking forward to my two weeks paternity leave to get the floors in!

This gives me some decent metal to weld the homemade repair sections to

This is the homemade section in position,the sub frame mount strengthener came from a complete inner and outer sill section bought second hand which all though I haven't used for the sills it has given up valuable guidance as to how originals were meant to fit-(original patterns etc had be lost under two and sometimes three layers of botched repairs)- it will also provide sections that can be used for repairing the bottom of the A and B posts if needed

Above homemade repair section for the rear sub frame mount using metal of a suitable thickness as apposed to the previous "repair" covered in my other posts

Repair sections going in

Scary hole exposed !