I thought that I'd better update this as the car has come a long way since my last update, I got the car home a few weeks back from my dad's, the brakes still don't seem right, i have the "brake" warning light on the dash and the pedal just feels horrible, It drops if you have your foot on the pedal and it has a spongy feel to it like you need to stand on them to stop it although they do work and pull up nice and straight. The next plan is to order another master cylinder repair kit and rebuild it again as well as a servo repair kit and rebuild that too.
As for the rest of the car...
I made a start on polishing the bodywork which amazingly has started to shine!
Fitted the correct 1500 badge too.
and gave it a clean under the bonnet, sadly i can't get the waxoyl off but it's probably best staying on there anyway. What should be on the missing sticker under the bonnet?
I removed the old washer bottle to give it a clean and thought I'd take a look at the old washer pump, there was nothing wrong with it!, God knows why the garage charged the last owner over £50 for a new one a back in March! Anyway i took that off and it's now running back on it's old one again.
It was at this point that things started to get serious!, I managed to get the chin spoiler off and found the valance was a bit grotty, removed the front bumper whilst managing to break the end brackets off (one side was already missing) and knocked the worse of the dent out.
My mate is coming over to try and weld some patches onto the valance, hopefully that will give it some strength again, to be fair that's probably the worse bit on the whole car.
I also done the sills and bottom of the rear quarter which were scabby.
Which after stone chipping and painting and a good polish didn't come out looking too bad i thought.
I'm not very happy about this rear arch, I might do that as well seeing how well the paint matches.
I'll paint the front wing when i do the valance.
The photos don't do it justice to be honest, I does look much nicer in real life!
The last few days I've been doing the offside which is pretty much the same as the other side but with door bottoms too!.
It currently looks like this, I sure most of you are thinking I'm probably mad for doing this amount of work with rattle cans in the garage but I'm enjoying it, It's nice to have something to get your teeth into!.
I've also bought this set of Yoko tyres of Blackcircles for £111 which seemed fair to me.
So there you have it, She's coming on well but there's still a long way to go. I can't wait to start using it though, as the seats are so comfy i keep finding myself sat in it and making brum brum noises!
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