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Hey Stewart
Some nice progress being made.
Coming along nicely.
Regards
Alex

parisian62 wrote:damn! there goes a whole page 19 of no pics...that's your fault Mick!

everything's allways my fault

Thanks Alex

Never Mick!

OK playing some MAJOR catch up with pics...

These date back to August 2009...cleaning front crossmember...

Stripping down front crossmember in February 2010...

one side...


the other side...I removed the shock and used threaded rod to compress the spring and get some tension off...




needed some leverage too...


broken spring...


done

December 2010...

Back from the blasters...




unsuspecting victim ready...


for some POR treatment...


lazy foreman







first coat...bew da ful

stripping and de-rusting door hinges in Oct and November 2010...

mix some of this...


with water, make sure your electodes are wired up right and turn the battery charger on...


and throw in a dab of elbow grease...gets you this...




some more...tailgate hinges






A cheap but slow way of cleaning and derusting parts if you dont have access to sand blasting.

January 2008...cleaning rear end

August 2009







Had trouble getting one of the axles out...

cleaning more 50 years of gunk and grease...this time drag link and steering arms...Spetember 2010

November 2010...after a good soak in a kero bath, elbow grease and electrolysis I ended up with this...

these sorts of car parts will never be made again...it's art...

cant we do a sticky of the wires in water Please

love this stuff...

hanging out the washing and a coat of primer to boot...

and how to do it for a dick like me

leave it out long enough and it turns to satin black! magic





I'm all picced out... adios...