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MikkiJayne 14th April 2019 09:20 AM

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Teaser pic from the workshop - home stretch now +++

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moltuae 14th April 2019 10:07 AM

AWESOME work! (in the original meaning of the word) +++

The_Laird 14th April 2019 10:12 AM

So excited!:mexicanwave:

Train ticket to Exeter booked for Monday

27litres 14th April 2019 10:14 AM

Like 100 billion hotdogs Mark?

Agree though I do like these threads!

moltuae 14th April 2019 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by 27litres (Post 149705)
Like 100 billion hotdogs Mark?

At least Marty.

Maybe even 200 billion, with ketchup.

27litres 14th April 2019 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by moltuae (Post 149706)
Maybe even 200 billion, with ketchup.

And mustard!

Red and yellow, awesome :ROFL:

Dezzy 14th April 2019 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Laird (Post 149703)
So excited!:mexicanwave:

Train ticket to Exeter booked for Monday

Exeter's nice Jim but not to get so excited about. :ROFL:

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 +++

MikkiJayne 14th April 2019 09:24 PM

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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

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Sorted

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Engine covers on

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Headlights in and ready for the bumper

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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.

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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.

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

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Chop the bracket off - we still need that.

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Oh looky - ball joints :cool:

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

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Attached to the bracket

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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.

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The undertray was pretty nasty!

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Much better

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All back together and ready for the road test :)

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I used quite a lot of degreaser :eek3:

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

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The final step - setting the headlight aim

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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!

IT 15th April 2019 07:25 AM

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... !!

MikkiJayne 15th April 2019 07:45 AM

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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