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More goodies turned up today courtesy of Group 4 Fabrications in Ireland. Tension strut kit. Saved over $335 importing it myself.. 

Woo hoo ! Level 3. My panelbeater is now back on the job. Hopefully a few more hours and we can etch primer the exterior.  

I'm running a Twin Cam quick rack which has a long stem pinion. The top rack in the pic is from a standard Mk1, luckily the housings are the same. Only the shafts are a different length.  

Stripped the column and found the housing had been bent then straightened. So stripped a spare one for the housing and sandblasted that.  

I keep finding parts that need some love, so next up is the steering column and mounting bracket.  

Assembled the lower arms and snuck them into a pic too. 

Then I finished the rack and mounted it up on the x-member. Happy days! 

Helicoil porn

World cup x-member all finished and painted..

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... 

On 05/09/2021 at 21:15, shizzl said:

Yeah, I just need to get my hands on a crossmember and rack, then work out what bottom arms I need. 

I have a pair of mk1 struts if I need to work with them. 

 

Also need an escort diff

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. 

15 hours ago, shizzl said:

Nice crossmember.. 

Have you bought parts from palmside? Good to deal with? 

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.  

On 02/09/2021 at 14:47, Benno said:

What paint have you used for the leaf springs?

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.  

On 18/08/2021 at 13:03, Lord Gruntfuttock said:

Enjoying this build. Lucky you had gaskets/sealant etc upon surprise lockdown... 

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.