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Teaser pic from the workshop - home stretch now +++
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AWESOME work! (in the original meaning of the word) +++
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So excited!:mexicanwave:
Train ticket to Exeter booked for Monday |
Like 100 billion hotdogs Mark?
Agree though I do like these threads! |
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Maybe even 200 billion, with ketchup. |
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Red and yellow, awesome :ROFL: |
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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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I will be picking Jim up +++ No hotdogs :ROFL:
The last few hours today. The electronics box was missing a few inserts so I did the usual fix on that http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 Sorted http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 Engine covers on http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 Headlights in and ready for the bumper http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 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. http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 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. http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 This is the last ever FE levelling arm. We don't want that though cos its rubbish. http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 Chop the bracket off - we still need that. http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 Oh looky - ball joints :cool: http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 Set the length and then apply heat shrink to protect the thread http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 Attached to the bracket http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 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. http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 The undertray was pretty nasty! http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 Much better http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 All back together and ready for the road test :) http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 I used quite a lot of degreaser :eek3: http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 Out in the yard after the road test. I haven't fitted roof rails - that's my A6 almost perfectly obscured :D http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 The final step - setting the headlight aim http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1555275751 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! |
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... !! |
Yeah still doing two jobs :rolleyes: 7 hours a day pretending to be an IT consultant and then 4-5 hours in the workshop. I slept well last night :D
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