Mk2 Green Mexico Restoration

[gazza66]

Sunroofs usually leak and shells are stronger without them. Think clocks have different coloured needles on early and late. Orange and White iirc

Yeah thats what i was thinking, white needles on the earlier ones

[HarrierTony]

Lol, Tony ive just been looking at your resto thread , that is some awsome repair work there mate , do you do that for a living ? also Ive just bought a mig welder, a clarke 140e only cheap but do you recon it will do the job ? gonna have a go at welding myself

Hi Gaz and thanks mate, I wish I did it for a living . I have been dabbling with mk2 escorts for more years than I like to remember lol.
The clarke 140e is a good mig and should be more than well able to do the job, just take your time to get use to it and it will be plain sailing from there.
I use the clarke migpro 90 and when it runs out of gas I use my cheapo gasless mig inbetween times. The gas mig is a lot better for panels where you want to keep any distortion to a minimum.
Keep the pics of your Mex coming, I will be keeping an eye on the resto.

[HarrierTony]

Yeah thats what i was thinking, white needles on the earlier ones

Your right, white needles are on earlier ones and then orange ones when Ford did their little make over, like when F O R D disappeared off the grill in favour of the Ford badge and the seperate letters disappeared off the boot.

[gazza66]

I'm going to start car this Saturday so give me a week or two and I'll start one... I think rallye sport escorts has gone signal green mex mad...

Did you start it then Chris ?

[chris chapman]

Did you start it then Chris ?

Yeh mate but didn't get much done as nunnsy (other signal green mex man) and his mate Steve came for a look so by time we had done talking it was home time .. I did manage to get grill off both front bumpers and one head light...LOL still it was a good morning having a good chat about mk2's..p.s Garry keep pic's coming mate you could turn out to be my motivation..

[gazza66]

Tips for taking front wings off

Yeh mate but didn't get much done as nunnsy (other signal green mex man) and his mate Steve came for a look so by time we had done talking it was home time .. I did manage to get grill off both front bumpers and one head light...LOL still it was a good morning having a good chat about mk2's..p.s Garry keep pic's coming mate you could turn out to be my motivation..

Thats exactly as far as i got, lights , grill and bumpers lol. Going to take the front wings off at some point this week so have you chaps any tips as one looks not to bad and id like to salvage it

[Dobbo63]

Yeh mate but didn't get much done as nunnsy (other signal green mex man) and his mate Steve came for a look so by time we had done talking it was home time .. I did manage to get grill off both front bumpers and one head light...LOL still it was a good morning having a good chat about mk2's..p.s Garry keep pic's coming mate you could turn out to be my motivation..

lock yourself in nxt time, andy aka nunnsy can talk for hours..steves not short of summat to say either, give em a spanner n wd40 nxt time chris..
cheers
steve.

[chris chapman]

Thats exactly as far as i got, lights , grill and bumpers lol. Going to take the front wings off at some point this week so have you chaps any tips as one looks not to bad and id like to salvage it

I've been tonight Garry and got other head light off and front wing.. A post is rotten as a pear and pork chop panel (splash shield) isn't mush better I knew it needed doing but didn't think it was that bad.. but at least I know where I'm start now.. worst bit first..

[chris chapman]

lock yourself in nxt time, andy aka nunnsy can talk fornhours..steves not short of summat to say either, give em a spanner n wd40 nxt time chris..
cheers
steve.

Pmsl... Three men stood for an hour and an half = 4and a half hours worth of work.. think your right mate next time they can come with there overalls on..

[jezerams]

early clocks...

[south west restorations]

Lol, Tony ive just been looking at your resto thread , that is some awsome repair work there mate , do you do that for a living ? also Ive just bought a mig welder, a clarke 140e only cheap but do you recon it will do the job ? gonna have a go at welding myself

Hi m8
I use a Clarke 151 fan cool and use co2 pub
Gas
A be doing it for years.my welder is over
15 years old and only replaced the Noel and tips
So u will manger fine with a Clarke welder
Keep at it u will get.a fix old fords every day
Love my job.lol

[gazza66]

early clocks...

Ahh, i see , just watching some some clocks on fleabay , think ill stick with mine unless anyone has got any to swap ;-)

[gazza66]

Hi m8
I use a Clarke 151 fan cool and use co2 pub
Gas
A be doing it for years.my welder is over
15 years old and only replaced the Noel and tips
So u will manger fine with a Clarke welder
Keep at it u will get.a fix old fords every day
Love my job.lol

Sweet, I havnt picked mine up yetbut looking forward to avin a blast with it lol

[RS Stan]

Any up dates love a green mex got a green mk2 sport

[HarrierTony]

Good point Stan, this one has gone quite, where are the updates Gaz