Sonic cleaning

New toy bought - sonic cleaner with a nice 6L tank capacity.


Made a few experiment last night. Not too succesfull, plenty of room for improvement. A proper cleaning agent for instance. Was using fairy liquid. Also need a baske - not good enough just lying in the tub like this.

Carb float bowl before sonich bath





and carb piston





Two hours later, not impressive, but OK. Saved me a lot of work.



This is because piston was standing and not rotated once in a while. Needs another go - perhaps suspended with a piece of string



Bit more luck with the float bowls









Water got plenty dirty though

Yawn - still scraping

I am getting closer to being able to send the bonneet of to the sandblaster. Nearly there now.

Underseal, underseal and more underseal

I have been slightly unmotivated by the task of removing underseal from the bonnet. I did however manage to spend a few hours last night by this tiresome task. Only good thing about it was that it kept me warm!

I am almost done with it - I guess it will be ready for the sandblasterafter next session.

The bonnet was worse than I had hoped. The left hand wing will have to be replaced. And some repars around the headlamppanel is also needed.
Bit of pics.

bit of this and that

Ages since my last update. It is not exactly as if I have been doing nothing. On the spitfire I have done next to nothing - not even bothered to adjust the dampers. And foolishly I have managed to misplace both set of keys for the car, so it is sitting miserably in the carport these days. Actually the keys werent misplaced - I had a moment of paranoia and hid the keys very weel for the instance the house would be burgled while I was away. When I needed the keys 4 days later I couldn't remember where I had hid them :B They will turn up eventually - hopefully before spring!

So basicly what has been done to the spit this season has been putting almost 3.000 miles on it and done nothiong but an oilchange and new oilfilter (well, then the insurance has sorted out new bumper and fixing the bonnet, but that does not count!)

On the GT6 major work is going on. Most of the car has been taken to bits now.







I am currently removing old underseal (waxoil?) from the bonnet, so it can be sent of to the sandblaster. The bonnet is far worse than expected. I will most likely have to replace a wing plus the panel under the headlight. :-/

Fair bit of filler around the headlight panel :o








:'( :'( :'(



Removing underseal is a pain in the whatever - especially when the car has been left for 20 odd years in the california desert. One should thing it was dried out and easy to remove - but no - it has more or lees been burned into the paint. Actually I am removing more paint than undersealer.







Do notice that the yank who was the previous owner of this vehicle did not believe in welding - he has obviously put all his effort into soldering the car together!!!!

Wont be pretty when it comes back from sandblasting!

Taking GT6 apart

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...

CRASH, crap ........

Crap. Women should NOT be allowed to drive >:(

I was in town witing for the lighths when some woman decided to reverse her car into mine. She didn't see me - she said. :'( :'(

Bumper is dead. There is a kink in the frame just behind the rad - I fear the left hand side of the frame has been lifted.

Paint has cracked on the bonnet where the lamp panel is joined with the centerpanel.

Shit

Stats of the day - Gavnoe

OK - was at the autojumble on Gavnoe. Wether was arite - not fantastic - but at least not raining! I got up at around 6 oclock in the morning. Grapped som coffee and headed south. Got lost around Roskilde and switched on the satnav. Said I would be 17 minutes late for the meetingpoint. Booted the car - turned up 7 minutes late. Entered parking lot sideways :-)

It was bloody cold - next time I will be wearing gloves!

Back home (add another 50 kilometers that wasn't logged before I turned the satnav on.)

Car is running close to fine, but still need alot of adjustment. Dizzy is crap and cant wait to get rid of it. Shaft is slightly bent and car is running very uneven with a lot og missing beats. Bring on the megajolt please! Need to get the wiring sorted!

We had a good run from the meeting point to Gavnoe. Got to check out the brakes a few times. I love those mintex pads. Locking the wheels is no problems - especially when the pads are warm.

My spit next to Peters very nice TR4

Dirks Spit Mk2/Mk3 hybrid.

Lovely GT6 engine department




More spits

Nice steering wheel! (but probablu pretty uncomfortable on the long trips)

Well sorted TR4

With proper tyres!