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Rack almost assembled... just need some minor welding on the x-member. Have heli-coiled all the rack mounts, just have to do it the lower arm mounts to accept the 7/16 bolts for the rose jointed lower arms.

Also managed to find some of these...

Where abouts are you based as I may be able to help with what to need...

Found a little bit of gold amongst my spares..

Evening all, the pics I took of the xmember are too big apparantly... anyway its all blasted and etch primered. Next on the to do list is the steering rack. I started building this about 2 years ago. It's a new quick rack kit , I was trying to find a modern rack end that would but was unable. So here we are, plan B. Finish rebuilding it with standard rack ends.

Great i idea, there's bugger all stuff around for Hillman's. I had an Avenger roadie for a while...

A couple of hours with a flap disc, some paint stripper and a small chisel to knock off bits of weld spatter. It's now ready to sandblast.

Cheers. Just spent a couple of hours tidying it up before I sand blast it. Yes have bought quite a bit from them awesome to deal with.

I stripped them, wire we wheeled them, treated them with brunox then used Wattyl kill rust super etch primer. This stuff is hard as nails . Then top coated with Plasticote satin black.

Yeah luckily I grabbed 5 gearbox gasket sets when they were available from Ford about 10 years ago so had them in stock.

Yeah, luckily a grabbed 5 g

The reason for only using the crossmember is i will be fitting a tension strut kit which gives a much stronger, adjustable and better located arms, and I can ditch the anti-roll bar to improve turn in on the gravel.

Might as well carry on keeping the momentum going so next up for a tidy up is the front suspension, actually all I'll be using from the original is the crossmember.

After a good clean it good treated to a couple of coats of etch primer then a couple of coats of satin black. One more job ticked off the list.

I had to completely strip all the paint off so after a few hours this is what I was left with.

Found underneath the black paint some of the original Sebring Red paint. This is quite a cool coincidence, as this is a Capri fuel tank and the colour the car will be painted in.

Found underneath the black paint some of the original Sebring Red paint. This is quite a cool coincidence, as this is a Capri fuel tank and the colour the car will be painted in.

Pressing on with the Lockdown rebuild, decided to strip the fuel tank

All painted and reassembled. Fitted heavy duty RS bushes to the front eye. Have poly ones for the shackles.

When it's too cold outside but to want to paint stuff...

Lockdown day 2. Stripping and rebuilding leaf springs.