After a long vacation, it is time to get on with the GT6. The spit is with the painter. Need a respray of the bonnet after the reversing woman incident...
Anyway - was in the garage yesterday. Has been pulling all interior and doors from the GT6. It turned out that the tank was completely shot. A good example has been sourced.
Last night was "pull the dashboard" night. Was a bloody nightmare. Basicly the dashboard are held in place by the gauges. Unfortunately the small knurled knobs were rusted solid to the studs on the instruments. And it is so cramped behind the dash that I could not get to it with any tools. Amazing where this car is rusted - the sills and floors are spotless - but the gauges - oh horror!
I spent the better part of 2 hours removing the dash! The dash itself has pretty much disintegrated - will be a right challenge to get it sorted. Great fun ahead!
I suspect the former owner of this car was either a plummer or just has a serious fetisch for bathroom accesories. The draintap on the batterybox was this
and even worse - a bog roll was used on the steeringcolumn for unknown purposes (unless the car was used as a loo!!)
In an attempt to reduce heat/noise the former owner also glued foam all over the car (as seen above). Had a party removing all this. Nasty stuff. A really bad idea fitting this kind of foam - it absorbs moisture and had it not been removed car would have suffered in the danish climate.
Bits and pieces.
Bulkhead is soon cleared - master cylinders and pedals has been removed. Starter solenoid and wipermotor are also gone. Batterybox was some homebrew thingy riveted on - was a bliss to se it gone!
Next time the heatermatrix will be out, and I can proceed on removing the engine. On seciond thought - might leave the engine in until I am done with the chassis. Rear valnce is doomed - will soonish be replaced. Progress really depends on when I will get the spit back from the painter - I will need to prep it for Round Denmark Reliability Run which is in 6 weeks. Uh oh - I am in a busy...
