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Old 14th April 2019, 10:20 AM
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Teaser pic from the workshop - home stretch now

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Old 14th April 2019, 11:07 AM
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AWESOME work! (in the original meaning of the word)
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Old 14th April 2019, 11:12 AM
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So excited!

Train ticket to Exeter booked for Monday
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Old 14th April 2019, 11:14 AM
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Like 100 billion hotdogs Mark?

Agree though I do like these threads!
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Old 14th April 2019, 11:18 AM
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Like 100 billion hotdogs Mark?
At least Marty.

Maybe even 200 billion, with ketchup.
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Old 14th April 2019, 11:21 AM
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Maybe even 200 billion, with ketchup.
And mustard!

Red and yellow, awesome
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Old 14th April 2019, 05:35 PM
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So excited!

Train ticket to Exeter booked for Monday
Exeter's nice Jim but not to get so excited about.

Are you going to get the train from Exeter to Copplestone or does one get picked up from St Davids

Should be a nice run home though mate
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Old 14th April 2019, 10:24 PM
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I will be picking Jim up No hotdogs

The last few hours today. The electronics box was missing a few inserts so I did the usual fix on that



Sorted



Engine covers on



Headlights in and ready for the bumper



Not sure if I've shown this before? On most cars you would use copper anti-seize grease with steel bolts in to steel nuts. Not so with aluminium threads in the D2 though, as the copper will accelerate corrosion, not protect against it. Instead, for the D2 I use aluminium anti-seize in certain places. The front panel to the chassis legs for example, the subframe to body bolts, or here for the main bumper bolts. The aluminium grease stops corrosion because it doesn't set up a galvanic reaction. There are some places where steel nutserts are used (the battery junction box for example). These do use copper grease, so its important to know which is which.



The headlight level arm was seized, as usual, and actually the wrong one. This is for the non-20" cars so was rattling around on the arm.



This is the last ever FE levelling arm. We don't want that though cos its rubbish.



Chop the bracket off - we still need that.



Oh looky - ball joints



Set the length and then apply heat shrink to protect the thread



Attached to the bracket



That ought to last a few more years than the plastic tat, and I can make as many of these as we need

Re-using the original bracket isn't ideal. I plan to print nylon versions instead.



The undertray was pretty nasty!



Much better



All back together and ready for the road test





I used quite a lot of degreaser



Out in the yard after the road test. I haven't fitted roof rails - that's my A6 almost perfectly obscured



The final step - setting the headlight aim



72 hours all told. That's rather more than I planned for since there was an awful lot of cleaning to do, but a good result at the end. The engine is lovely and quiet now, and in fact starts up more smoothly than mine!
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Old 15th April 2019, 08:25 AM
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Great work as usual, and an excellent write up.

Are you still squeezing all this in part time round your day job ?.. If so the mind boggles as to when you actually sleep... !!
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Old 15th April 2019, 08:45 AM
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Yeah still doing two jobs 7 hours a day pretending to be an IT consultant and then 4-5 hours in the workshop. I slept well last night
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