Removing a bodge

.... and introducing another.

My generator has been held in place by a less than pretty mix of jubilee-clips and strips. Last night I removed the old dynamobracket and replaced it with a newer one fron Canley (kindly given to me by The Mad Welder).

The original bodge - produced "en route" during Round Denmark Reliability run when the rear bolt snapped.

And here the result of the evenings work - another bodge. It appears that my generatorbolt is on the shortish side. When tightened the rear leg of the generator moves inwards. Must purchase another bolt, and shim the bracket.

On the road again - spring has sprung

What a nice (though a bit chilly) day to bring the spit out.















Got to get the idlescrew spring on the carb. Idling at 2000 RPM . Embarrasing....

There is a hole in my GT6 (and pocket)

This pretty piece of rust came out of the GT6 the other day. Bye bye rusty rearvalance.

Amazing piece of repair - car has been rearended once, and had just the middle of the rearvalance replaced

Hmm - has got BODGE written all over it




YUK

Glad it is out

Bonnet ready for sandblaster

YIHAAAAA. Finally done removing underseal from the yank GT6 bonnet. It was well and truly given a very thorough underseal, hich was extremely difficult to remove.

Here the bonnet has been put aside. Next task is to remove underseal from the mad welders car (while he in exchange helps putting a new rear valance in the GT6

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!