mogsmex or is it mogsmad ???

[spellersarc]

miles ahead..

of me not sure ill make it now but will keep going,well done youve done her proud

[Mogsmex]

any updates glyn, should be running by now

not quite running yet

no piccie updates cos I lost my phone last week Mr H was over today so he may put some pics up later, basically engines now all ready to go back in, repainted, belted, new stem seals, new clutch, new coreplugs and fully buftied

I have now G3'd all the engine bay and fitted new loom rubbers, so today I have got all the loom back in place after taking it all apart and fitting a new lumentition onto it and rewrapping and cleaning it all up, the paint has now dried enough to put all the servo back together so Mr H bolted it all in, then he made me up some new shiny fuel lines and they are now all in, and loads of other little bits have been done, coil, horn, fan etc etc

Gary took away all my front suspension and buftied it for me

that is now sitting waiting to go in as well

tomorow after work plan is to stick the engine on the box on the X member and put the whole lot in at once

[Mr Hoarder]

Todays progress :



This is ready to have a gearbox on it, and be mated up with the X-member.




We are going for the full on "Factory fit" method of re-assembly.

The whole lot into the bay from underneath.

It's just as well I've got a high lift jack

[Frosticles]

That looks lovely.

[2quick4u]

Excellent work there

Rob, when you have finished helping Glyn, do you fancy popping over and giving me a hand to re-comission the MK1 again mate

[Mr Hoarder]

Excellent work there

Rob, when you have finished helping Glyn, do you fancy popping over and giving me a hand to re-comission the MK1 again mate

Does it involve rear seat belts and side intrustion protection bars ?

[paul andrews]

you fellas are bloody mad but well done rob

[Dave1800BDA]

looking great lads, what a turn around

[2quick4u]

Does it involve rear seat belts and side intrustion protection bars ?

Seat belts yes, intrusion bars no, the intrusion bars are only needed on cars built after 1977 iirc.

What it really needs is a bit of a strip and refit, everything has started leaking since it has stood for a long time, even the seals on the rear Bilsteins

Will be getting done soon though, got lots of nice bits to put on it, I just need to get a round tuit

[Mr Hoarder]

Seat belts yes, intrusion bars no, the intrusion bars are only needed on cars built after 1977 iirc.

What it really needs is a bit of a strip and refit, everything has started leaking since it has stood for a long time, even the seals on the rear Bilsteins

Will be getting done soon though, got lots of nice bits to put on it, I just need to get a round tuit

Once it's done you need to use it more to stop it going down hill again

[oldskooljoe]

Todays progress :



This is ready to have a gearbox on it, and be mated up with the X-member.




We are going for the full on "Factory fit" method of re-assembly.

The whole lot into the bay from underneath.

It's just as well I've got a high lift jack

Stunning work lads well done

[Mr Hoarder]

This afternoon saw a four hander; myself, Glyn, Gary, and Glyns mate Richard from work (who used to be a work colleague of mine from years ago) cracking on with the refit, we needed 4 on it as the whole front end (built up) went in from underneath.

Engine and box onto the x-member (which had the struts/TCA's and ARB on it) and then we lowered the car onto it, finally craning the whole lot up to meet the car.

Went extremely easily, with no scratches to the fresh paint, even the column popped into the steering coupling without a drama.

Glyn took piccies, I'm sure he's still in his garage at the moment

[pinto48s]

that looks to good for rattle cans!!?? surely not?
you wasn't into graffiti as a teen was you?!!!
lookin good!

[topaz]

Glyn took piccies, I'm sure he's still in his garage at the moment

what do his neighbours say

[Mogsmex]

that looks to good for rattle cans!!?? surely not?
you wasn't into graffiti as a teen was you?!!!
lookin good!

definitley Rattle cans I'm not too bad with em, and erm .........yes did manage to get myself arrested in my teens for graffiti

just in from the garage, Rob's saved me a write up this evening managed to get all the brakes finished off tonight as well

I now have a warm positive feeling about the whole thing






yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy



2 weeks to the day since it came out, it's back

big thanks to all my helpers this evening, it worked brilliant without even a nudge of any fresh paint