My Mk1 Escort 1300 Sport Project

[south west restorations]

good project m8.
am sure it be a nice one .
will watch ur progress

[mk1GTstu]

Done a bit more on the sport, started drilling out the spot welds on the heater bubble

found some rot behind it but nothing too serious, got to get some quotes on getting the shell blasted as the guy who did my other mk1 has closed down
some more pics,

[vinny]

[mk1GTstu]

cleaned up & painted both window regulators,

started taking servo to bits & made a start cleaning it up.

[mk1GTstu]

stripped down servo, pedal box & paintstripped & de rusted them along with the rocker cover & various other brackets & bits,,




Took them for powdercoating & zinc plating on monday so hopefully will get them back soon. Thats it for now

[lee bishop]

Nice work stu.

[mk1GTstu]

Been doing a few more bits, dismantled & started cleaning up wiper mechanism,

tested motor & its working, one of the splines on one side was missing so replaced that,


And resprayed linkage.

[mk1GTstu]

Also picked up the load of bits & pieces i've had powdecoated & zinc plated

[mk1GTstu]

couple more pics

[13sport]

.nice mate. ive just had a load of bits zinc plated mostly engine bits cam pulleys, lifting eyes etc. Looks really nice, better than painting and not that dear. keep up the good work.

[mk1GTstu]

cheers, yeah i'm really pleased with how they've turned out, well worth the effort of paintstripping & de-rusting them to have them powdercoated, i will get a load more bits on it done once i've cleaned them up.

[13sport]

im lucky that the chap i rent my garage off has blasting facilitys, start with alluminium oxide, hes then got 2 grades of glass bead in seperate cabinets and has just taken delivery of what he described as a wet blaster, gives an anodised style finish. i did all my alloy parts in the bead blaster last week should update my post really and get my shell welded up so ive got something to fit everything to!
The zincing process was much cheaper if i blasted and pickled them first.

[mk1GTstu]

should update my post really and get my shell welded up so ive got something to fit everything to!

Same here! I'm busy at work & have car shows to go to this time of year so just getting bits & pieces done when i get time in the evenings/weekends, I hope to get stuck into doing the welding on the shell in the next couple of months & during the winter.

[south west restorations]

nice prgress there m8.
are u going concours with this one?

[Quickrack-Alan]

The powdercoating looks great. Is it hard cleaned off threads etc??