So, Thursday I decided to tackle Ray-Le-Otter's weak boost and low cold idle. Turned out it was a manifold leak somewhere, so I'm going to have to lift the engine out. Game over for a little while.
The attention then turned to R7, I had a good ole poke around in depth with her now being up in the air before stopping for lunch:
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After lunch, I decided to wire wheel the rear driver wheel arch and along the sil, I needed to remove the wing, which proved a little tricky, iv not taken one of these cars appart before and I'm a little shy of damaging it as its not my own to damage really
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, this is what I found:
Lots and lots of body filler, no real attempt to replace the metal underneath, as soon as I hit it with the wire wheel it fell off.
Inside the rear wheel arch, loads of filler again, I hope that this car didn't have passengers, this is what it was hiding. Large holes around the seat belt mount, the sils had rubber grommets inserted as drain holes, all where clear but held water around them just simply due to the shape, rubber is great at holding moisture aswell, I feel its better to let it breathe.
The wing was quite fiddly to get off, as I had said already, this car is a bit different, I loosened all of the nose cone, loosened the bumper and pulled it all forwards, the light cluster came with it, I would like to figure out how to seperate these and take the lights out for access. *note to self, study HBOL*
This is what I found underneath:
Standard affair according to the others, all that grot hidden behind the plastics. I dislike wheel arch liners for this reason, but it seems I'll need to put them back on this car, protect the doorjams etc.
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So a little scary, and a little bit of work in the rear wheel arch, but time and patience will be key here. I am hoping to get myself a cheap 3x3M party tent type thing with sides so that I can work without disturbing and upsetting the other cars and give me all weather space if necessary.
When I begin welding and grinding I will need to cover the windows with something relatively robust, maybe rugged bin liners?
Paint will need organising aswell, so far I will do what I did with ray-le-otter and just paint with weld through primer when I'm resting between jobs. Should at least stop any more rust.