opps, i did it again, sheepers's green POS MS75 crown.

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Did a bit more on the thing. 

The immediate goal it to paint the bottom of the body and paint the chassis so I can put the body back in the chassis for the final time. 

With this in mind I'm not going to spend too much more time finishing inside the boot and I'm going to concentrate on what underbody work needs doing before I can paint. 

Rust.

It's Rust I'm talking about. 

There's really fuck all Rust needs doing to this car because it's actually the least rusty one I've come across in the last 15 years or so but there is still work that needs doing. 

Spare tyre well had been replaced at some point, was a bit shit looking and the inner wheel house needed some fixing so I cut the whole lot out.

Started making the new bit,  still a bit to do but it's a good start. I'll make the outer skin when I do the body work on the outside of the car.  For now I'll leave the flange on the new piece unattached to the outer skin. 

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did a bit more.

i made the vertical panel but i wasn't happy with it so i threw it in the bin and made a new one.

this one fits better.

i haven't finished the welding yet but its almost all done, its looking pretty good and ive got the slight curve in it like the original one. 

yay.

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the other side inner guard was a bit rusty so i cut it off and made a new one. 

then it was time for a bit of etch primer then underseal.

that all came out super good, looks fucking ace. 

now its time to paint the bottom of the body green/body colour.

i also lifted up the chassis so i could put another coat of black on it before it goes back under the car.

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Then I painted it green. 

Impossible to see in the phone pix what colour it actually is but I like it. 

Is fucking close to the original (probably ?) And it looks good. 

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Fuel tank installation. 

Broken bolts re welded.

New isolation shit. 

Done

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Painted the firewall. 

Really badly. 

I had the bigger tip in my colour gun from when I was painting the textured underseal on the bottom of the car. 

Forgot to change it back.  Result is more runs than a 5 day test match and its all splotchy and shit looking. 

It might settle as it dries but also it might not. 

Can't win them all......

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In an effort to clean up the shed a bit i put all the garbage in one place. 

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The brand new carburetor i bought about 6 years ago needed all the fucked things (mainly due to being badly made in China) fixed on it before it could disappoint the human race on an engine.

So I did that 

Then I had to make a new water neck thing because the 55 year old one is rusty for some reason.  I made a new one out of stainless so it might last another 55 years. 

Then I painted the inlet manifold and bits. 

One of these days I'll find out if this engine actually runs.

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Rebuilt the starter. 

Put new bearings in it and cleaned up the contacts.  Gave it a coat of paint and a bit of grease. 

Hey presto - brand new!

It even turns the motor. 

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Got the shitbox running. 

Seems happy.  Got it up to temp twice and the radiator is not yet full of oil so I'm calling that perfect.

It's got two water leaks,  both of them in place i welded so yay for the beach. 

I'll have to pull it to bits and fix them but yea whatever, not a biggie.

China carburetor is currently working so I'm going to assume it's perfect for ever. 

I'll probably piss about doing some reassembling of things like brakes and heater fan next.

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Started painting shit. Made some brake lines,  gave the heater blower a birthday as well as the windscreen wiper motor.

 

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Just spent WAAAAAYYYYY to long rebuilding the clutch master. 

The clutch felt really heavy and kinda bottomed  out to early,  it was all a bit weird  

So anyway when I pulled it out the pushrod circlip had come out of the groove and was just floating,  the piston ejected itself with quite a bit of force,  which is strange. 

Turns out it had been assembled wrong and a washer was in the wrong place basically halving the space for the spring. 

The spring was binding and the extra pressure ejected the circlip. 

Luckily I have hoarded many factory repair manuals so I had a full exploded diagram to show when the washer was supposed to go. 

I would make new clutch hard lines to finish the clutch completely but my flaring tool shit itself.

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started making a zorst for the POS.

 

 

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I've been making a full exhaust system for a stupid chevy pickup rubbish which had taken the best part of the last 3 weeks but that's done now. 

Zorst for this garbage is nearly finished . 

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And done . 

I'll weld the tip on once the car is finished in case I need to move the tip around a bit to properly line up with the cutout in the rear bumper.

Just needs a coat of paint. 

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Finished. 

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Pitman arm bush was a bit fucked so I made some new ones. 

The taper pin seems fine so back onto the car it goes. 

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I installed a new fuel pump and some filters, which concludes the fuel system mechanics, just need to finish the power feed but that will come with relay and proper wiring later on. 

 

In other news I got a new heater tap and modified it to work on the crown. 

Usual story, BA falcon tap cut and flipped around so the tap is closed with no vacuum. Original tap was suitably fucked. You can't really fit the new tap in the place of the old one so it'll go on the other side of the firewall but that's easy enough. 

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Fuck I've seen this movie before. 

Always good to see the original brake caliper setting shims still attached.

New bushes all round although I'm questioning why,  the old bushes are fucking perfect.  Why the fuck am i changing them,  there's nothing wrong with them.....

 

Fuck whatever. 

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Mostly finished with new bushes etc.

The balljoints, tie rods, panhard bar and track rod bushes were like new so I didn't change them. 

Honestly this car is confusing, if carjam is to be believed the things done nearly 300 thousand Ks (like a 4M could achieve that...) but honestly every wear part is like new.  There's not a single hammer bruse on any of the balljoint tapers, every cotter pin looks factory, everything looks like it's only done fuck all Ks.

Even the brake pedal rubber looks new. 

The front brake rotors have the tiniest lip on them.

Something don't add up. 

Anywho I'll take it because everything is in fucking good nick for 50 years old.