What's in the workshop? Gareth's Tree-find

[MikkiJayne]

A day of mending and cleaning today.

The power steering pipes are in pretty good condition (city car) so I'll soak them in evaporust for a couple of days to clean them up, and then paint them with Rustoleum.



Grot:





All the AC unions are seized - I can't get the filter or dryer out, so just removed the whole lot so I can either separate the pieces in the vice or replace them.



The ABS unit has been replaced and for no obvious reason, someone has bent all the pipes so it doesn't sit properly so I'll sort that and re-seat it.



Much nicer





On to the other side



The screenwash bottle shows signs of mould growth so that needs cleaning otherwise it'll clog up the pumps



Loads more detritus up here. Cleaned it all but forgot to take a picture.



On to the various seized / snapped fasteners. I was able to turn the front panel bolt with the mole grips, but at only 10° a time it took a while. It came out though, so I cleaned up the thread with a tap



This one needed drilling out and then also cleaned up with a tap



This is the middle bolt for the windscreen wiper trim panel - whoever has been in here before just tore the panel off it and left the bolt with some plastic in place The bolt was so seized the rivnut just spun in the sheet metal so it'll need grinding out and replacing



Protected the glass and electronics box hole before cutting the bolt head off



Ground out the remains of the rivnut and replaced it



While I had the rivnut tool out I fitted a couple more in the engine bay to replace the silly plastic rivets with bolts. One for the trim round the air filter



and the other for the trim behind the header tank



Nearly ready to reassemble it soon!

[Regulus]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

A day of mending and cleaning today.

Grot:




Nearly ready to reassemble it soon!

I am very curious. Where do the vacuum pipe connect when you reassemble it? At the moment it looks like mine did, from the reservoir, without any connection. I doubt I refitted mine correctly, as I had only some schematics to help me guess

[MikkiJayne]

It joins the vac system here, but this the 40V. The 32V vac system is different though.



Cobwebs everywhere under the bonnet!



Nibbled! I don't have a spare one of these at the moment



So I painted it At least it doesn't draw the eye now. I'll replace it next visit



Yay new parts at last! Just cabin filters, but at least its progress.



Engine bay all cleaned up



Most of the AC lines capitulated when faced with the bench vice and the Decider.



This is the Decider. It decides whether something will come apart or break



The larger condenser line put up a considerable fight. I wrapped a wet cloth around the hardline so I could get the gas torch on the nut without cooking the hose. It came apart in the end, but took the thread off the remains of the condenser. I'm hoping I'll be able to clean out the threads in the nut and re-use it.



This grommet is something of a problem as it has disintegrated, and is NLA.





If only we knew someone who could make new grommets...

[MikkiJayne]

Something like this would seem to be in order, but it is considerably easier to render than it is to print, or indeed assemble...

[David's8]

I did say that resistance is futile

[HPsauce]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

it is considerably easier to render than it is to print, or indeed assemble...

A horizontal split similar in concept to the boot grommet maybe?

[MikkiJayne]

The problem with this one is that it is so thin there is nowhere for the material to key in to itself like the boot grommet does. It may have to simply be a straight cut at the bottom so it can slip over the pipes, and then either glue it together with rubber-reinforced CA glue (not DIY-able) or hope that the polyurethane holds it's shape when put in place. I have a printed part now so will do some tinkering with it shortly.

[MikkiJayne]

Thursday evening was consumed by the wiper mechanism which turned out to be utterly seized when I went to re-fit it. I dismantled it completely, cleaned everything up, re-greased it all and reassembled with a replacement motor.



All that remains of the starter junction box!



The bolts were crusty, but thankfully came out ok and cleaned up fine. Drilling these out is not fun.



This little stump is the remains of an aluminium stud which holds a steel P-clip with a steel nut, and therefore is usually seized and usually snaps off. Since the subframe is out it'll get replaced with a rivnut.



Flatten the stump with a carbide burr



M6 rivnut in its place. Its important to have a fixing here otherwise the movement of the engine tends to crack the starter junction box.



All ship shape again



Cleaned all the mould and legionella out of the screenwash bottle



Back in place



I'm still working on a design for the AC grommet. I can replicate the original almost perfectly, but splitting it to get the pipes in then ruins it so its likely I will make something thicker like the boot grommet. I guess it doesn' really matter if it looks the same as the original if it performs the same function.

[spannerrash]

Thanks for this MJ, a very interesting read. 👍

[MikkiJayne]

Power steering pipes back on. After removing the rust I painted the fittings with Rustoleum and then wrapped the pressure hose union with self-amalgamating tape.



One of the brake pipes was rather crusty so I cleaned it up with scotchbrite



and re-painted it



At this point I had run out of reasons not to put this



back in here...



so in it went







Hopefully I can fire it up tomorrow after an electrical systems check, adjusting the shifter and making sure the F125 is behaving, but I also have to drill some broken bolts out of the radiator which may thwart that plan.