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have taken the light sockets out bonnet and also the bumper bar.

lights out and bonnet off


light sockets out and bumper bar off

so today we got one mud guard off the other side 3 bolts are rounded so going to drill them out the grill is removed as well

grill removed


lh guard removed

hard to tell by the pics but doesn't look to rusty in the scarey places (top where subframe bolts on and bottom at end of sill also where subframe bolts on)

harry186 wrote:hard to tell by the pics but doesn't look to rusty in the scarey places (top where subframe bolts on and bottom at end of sill also where subframe bolts on)

it isn't that bad manly just the floor and some panels. had a good look today has no drive shaft lol don't know if it snapped off or what. under the car looks alright nothing major so far. i'll take pics if we find rust on major parts hoping not.

lildavo wrote:

harry186 wrote:hard to tell by the pics but doesn't look to rusty in the scarey places (top where subframe bolts on and bottom at end of sill also where subframe bolts on)

it isn't that bad manly just the floor and some panels. had a good look today has no drive shaft lol don't know if it snapped off or what. under the car looks alright nothing major so far. i'll take pics if we find rust on major parts hoping not.

You'd have to be unlucky to snap a tail shaft with a grey motor someone probably just pinched it for parts

EKjimmy wrote:

lildavo wrote:

harry186 wrote:hard to tell by the pics but doesn't look to rusty in the scarey places (top where subframe bolts on and bottom at end of sill also where subframe bolts on)

it isn't that bad manly just the floor and some panels. had a good look today has no drive shaft lol don't know if it snapped off or what. under the car looks alright nothing major so far. i'll take pics if we find rust on major parts hoping not.

You'd have to be unlucky to snap a tail shaft with a grey motor someone probably just pinched it for parts

i dunno didn't really look uni joints are still there. not really fussed about it. think dad wants to start sanding some of panels down soon

Nice work Davo
Just remember to keep taking lots of pics of where & how things go together,
and to label and store the parts properly so they/you dont get lost, when its time to go back on.

Cheers
Jeff

Thommo wrote:Nice work Davo
Just remember to keep taking lots of pics of where & how things go together,
and to label and store the parts properly so they/you dont get lost, when its time to go back on.

Cheers
Jeff

thanks yeah i allways take pics of everything i do to any cars. we been bagging and labeling where bolts when and screws. we just need to get few more tools i only own metric sockets and spanners only got a imperial spanner set so that's getting a good work out now. need some ratchet spanners and impact drives.

i used to be a mechanic so i tend to always put thing in order they came off, also is good because i took apart a Grey motor and put it back together it ran again.

today we took the doors off and the right hand guard. been cleaning up the front end so far only found one spot of rust on the sub frame and took the radiator out.

right hand guard off




doors off


rust spot on sub frame


radiator out

two steps backward and one step forward...

parisian62 wrote:two steps backward and one step forward...

dads mate son come around to help he always wants to take stuff off, so we let him take the radiator off even, though we want to get the rear doors off, he just has a problem of leaving all my good tools laying around and i cant find them grrrrr. think dads plan is get all the panels off and lights. then look at the front see what repairs need to be done.

looks pretty rusty,anything IS fixable
BUT rust is a bitch
your doing a great job

Mick Jagger wrote:looks pretty rusty,anything IS fixable
BUT rust is a bitch
your doing a great job

that is true, there is a lot of surface rust on it. but any bad spot's we will fix up as we go along, only bad part is dad mates kid tends to strip bolts and screws and makes it very hard to get them out. on plus side i got some impact drives today (: makes it a lot easier to get them big screws out. we are hoping we will get the rear doors off and rear bumper and and guards off very soon if it all goes to plan.

well we got the rear doors off. next is rear panels.

thanks

rear doors off

Just a tip, the rear panels don't come off unless you cut them off .