NZ: MKII 3 Door Project Car

[ranton-inc]

Fizz and I cracked in to it and made some progress!









Did some panel beating to correct some retarded looking rain tray


Cleaned fluffy deadening on the roof






Cars almost ready for re deadening and when i can source a loom that can start being laid

Got to attend to some minor surface rusting an cut and repair the windscreen seam.

[ranton-inc]

Not much Changed today.

Ordered a Small Sandblaster so i can attack things like the minor rust around the windscreen and clean the old paint off the seat rails etc etc.

Trying to decide on a color I am finally going to paint the car (in a few months time when this has progressed further down the road.

Plans this Week

- Remove; Front Fenders, Doors, Boot lid and various other fittings to be taken off too.

- Install some calipers & Pads on the rear so the hand brake can actually be utilized

Other Plans in the pipeline

- Hopefully start forming replacement sections out of Panel Steel to weld back in where the frame has rotted slightly around the Windscreen.

- Start lifting off the rest of the sound deadening probably with the use of Dry Ice

[GoLfMan]

nice one mate, keep up the good work

[clicht]

I too am enjoying this....nice job

[ranton-inc]

I too am enjoying this....nice job

Quite Happy with todays Haul actually..

Secured the following pieces of interior Trim

- Pair of A Pillars
- Pair of C Pillars
- Pair of C Pillar Bases (Parcel Tray Holders)

Still hunting for the Headliner and Electric Windows and hard backed door cards.. front and rear.

[moostin]

Did you remove the whole wiring loom, if so how did you get it all though the bulk head and where are you going to get a new one from?


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[ranton-inc]

Did you remove the whole wiring loom, if so how did you get it all though the bulk head and where are you going to get a new one from?

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Hey Chief from Memory Most of it was already gone anyway.

I have a MKIV DBW Loom waiting to be removed from a Wreck at the local wrecking yard... Im just waiting for them to call me and let me know when I can come and pull it out!

Just retaining the MKII Plug ends for the Tail lights/Interior Lights/Door Switches etc..

The MKII Wiring now is all a bit decrepit and perished to re use any way.

On another note

Im down to 4 Colours I like that I will more than likely paint the car in!

[nacnud]

Hi Anton! Some good progress on this bro!

[ranton-inc]

Can not wait for saturday to come around

Got a Fair List to achieve by the days end so far!
- Get the Dry ice on Friday and Destroy the rest of the old Sound Deadening on saturday morning
- Remove Front Guards
- Remove Front Hubs and press out the decrepit axles
- Sandblast anythign that needs it
- and finish Shaving ugly brackets off the engine bay!

If time allows make patch template for windscreen rust repair.. and start preparing the patch peice out of panel steel..

Thats probably a fairly ambitious list.. but this project is early days so am still learning how to guage/manage time

---- On another note Lots of Goodies arrived today (un-important **** but goodies none the less!!)



Big Bumper Bits

and also secured a set of 90s spec arches and Side Sills to come here from the UK!

[ranton-inc]

Well Saturday came and went, and I feel that Fizz and I achieved a fair bit on the car Started around 9ish finished the day around 5:00pm



Still right at the beginning of the prep work stage but i feel this is super important for a better finished result.

So yeah its taking ages but what the hell..

We ran down the road to BOC Gasses and grabbed about 15kg of Dry Ice (Solid CO2),
with the intention of removing as much of the manky and old sound deadening that was stuck-fast to the floor pan.

Poured it on in to all the foot wells and kept on waiting a little bit then moving the Dry Ice and then whacking with the Mallets... It didn't work, so we decided to leave it to "cook" ( so to speak ) for 20minutes and to kill time decided to start preparing the Front Guards/Arches for removal....

If you leave the Dry ice to sit then give it a belt with a Rubber or plastic mallet you will be surprised how the old crap just shatters and can be picked/swept up and thrown away!.

Here are some Shots of the Progress of the Removal and the finished result





All in all pretty good cleanish and not as time consuming and messy as a scraper and heat gun method
(Which is still needed to finish of the tunnel Area!)

Turns out making dry ice bombs is extremely loud... fun... and easy to make!!!!

Was good to get the Fenders/Guards off too. really expose this bad girl up...
Man the manufacturer went overboard with the Underbody Silicone ****!

Only discovered a pretty minor looking rust under the Passengerside Guard




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The Next Job was to get the Driveshafts out of the Spindles... ( I tried removing these the other day and left the shafts soaking in CRC for about a Week, and they still didn't budge!) and even using a puller tool they wouldnt move at all

(Copper Grease goes a long way when you are assembling parts)

Removed the Strut from the Spindle
Removed Tie and Ball Joints
Removed Spindles and Drive Shaft away from the Car in one



Had to apply nearly 15 Tonnes (Indicated by my Hydro Press) just to the god dam old Shafts out of the hubs

Decided I'm going to order all new stuff for most of the part we have been working on thus far.

So that means...
- New Tie Rod and Rack Ends
- New Rotors
- New Calipers
- New Ball Joints
- New Wheel Bearings etc



And While we were at it we thought f*^& it less remove the subframe too... was we can tidy that up as well!
New Paint / re movver





The Shell is now carted around with the use of a trolly jack and pallets



Next Weekend will Probably entail removal of the Rear beam axle to give that a tidy up too!

New Bearings and probably a powder coat..

Going to have to attend to the Rust as well but for the time being i have doused it in Rust Converter untill i have a day good enough to sand blast it back and see how serious or not it may be!

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On another note last week I also had some goodies arrive from Tim @ dubaddiction

juicy!



---------- Post added 21-05-2012 at 04:48 PM ---------- Previous post was 20-05-2012 at 11:43 PM ----------

More shtuff ordered today...


- New Tie-rods Left and Right
- New Rack Ends Left and Right
- New Ball Joints Left and Right
- New Wheel Bearings Front and Rear
- New Discs for the Rear


The A-Arms already have some Polyurethane goodness installed in them...