Project PUS (Sapphire Sprint)

[Mad Mart]

What do you use to clean up the alloy bits, Mart? (I'm guessing an angle grinder with knotted wire brush would just leave a small pile of ally dust... )

Some fine Wet & Dry, maybe some wire wool, then finish by smearing Autosol on & cleaning up on my buffing wheel (attached to my leccy drill & held in the vise).

[Mad Mart]

Cleaned the carb assembly...







Vinyl roof from Martim arrived yeasterday.

Spoke with Jon the sprayer at lunchtime, I may be going down tomorrow to take some pics!

[Mike]

Love the carbs,How long did they take to do?

[fastblatt]

Is this the best (or only) place to buy a vinyl roof Mart?

[DoloWIGHTY]

Love the carbs,How long did they take to do?

I agree. What did you use?

[Mad Mart]

I guess we're talking about the shiny dashpots? I just clean all the crude off with some gunk & wire wool then, depending how good/bad they are, I use a bit of fine wet & dry on them to start with then smear Autosol over them & put them on the buffer on my leccy drill. They polish up quite easily/quickly. I reckon I spent 20 mins. tops on each. I'll try & takes some pics of the kit I use one day.

I beleive there are other places that sell the vinyl roof with the seams. I think someone put a link up earlier this week somewhere. This is the fourth roof I've had off Martin as he makes a good job of them.

[Mad Mart]

I rang Jon this morning at about half eleven and sure enough PUS is now all BLUE...














































The 2 passenger doors have had their dents pushed out. Remember the rear passenger door with ½" of filler in it? Well Jon said he gave it a few taps with a chisel from the inside and the dent came out almost perfect, so only a slight skim of filler this time.

[JPB]

Wow, that bloke sure can paint!

[straylight]

fantastic job mart. The finish on everything you do continues to have me scratching my head. How does he get it looking so damn good ?

stu

[Mad Mart]

Hopefully [-o< PUS will be back home later today.

[ToledoZombie]

Your painter certainly has done a fantastic job Mart. With having a vinyl roof, what sort of prep does the roof have?
Roll on when she gets home!

[Mad Mart]

The roof had the same as the rest of the car (primer, etch primer etc.) except that it only had one top coat. I will now rough it up a bit with some wet & dry before gluing the vinyl roof on.

[Mad Mart]

Jon brought PUS back at lunchtime & managed to dodge the rain. We just managed to get it off the back of the transporter before the rain came down again.









Now where shall I start?

[Mad Mart]

After cleaning up the main wiring loom & making good a couple of connections it was on to fitting the bulkhead pad (gotta love the smell of the Evostick ). I then started to make up the front brake pipes but got a bit stuck with which pipe goes to where on the union (could've sworn I took a piccy before I removed it.) My union seems to be a different hand than the one in the Sprint dogalogue. (see post in Dolly related forum). Next I started fitting the main wiring loom.

[Mad Mart]

Didn't do as much today as I'd hoped. Mary glued the edge of the headlining & fitted the furflex. She also fitted the 'A' & 'B' post vinyls, the seat belts and the rear lights. I've been faffing with a few bits as well.