Had a couple of weeks away from the MG whilst I've been working on another one of my projects. Must say its refreshing to work on something different every now and again but glad to be back at it this weekend !
Dropped all of the rear running gear from the car -
I was pricing up new bushes last night as the rears are all perished and the prices for the poly bush alternatives are truly eye watering ! Think I'll poly bush the anti roll bar and link like I did at the front and use genuine MG/Rover replacement rubber bushes everywhere else. I may do the odd track day but I don't think that'll justify me buying poly.
Removed the fuel tank -
Nice and rusty, the underbody protection on the MK2 cars is seriously poor.
Then got to work on the rear arch. Here's a shot of the O/S before I wire brushed it -
Wire brushed back to bare metal and then Zinc Primed -
It wasn't that bad to be honest but it'll still get the same treatment as the front. I also removed the arch body kit trim as I didn't want to risk catching it with the grinder and damaging it.
Haven't touched the other side or the underneath yet but will make a start on those next weekend.
That was Saturdays progress, Ive invested in some new tools to make my life a bit easier and decided to put them to use today.
Clarke strong arm engine hoist and load leveller won on eBay -
And an engine stand -
Split the gearbox from the engine -
Removed the clutch, it's not too bad but will be changed for peace of mind regardless -
And hoisted the engine up onto the stand -
I've also bought an air compressor from SGS engineering whilst they're on sale -
You get a few basic air tools thrown in with it but I'm going to invest in some quality ones. I'm going to use it for spraying mostly, fancy having a go at doing my own painting on this project so will see how it goes.
Also had a play with the dead VIS motors today, opened both units up -
Both were literally swimming in oil so I decided to strip out the internals and clean them up -
Also cleaned up the spindle inside both motors -
Put them both back together again and managed to get the Power VIS working but the Balance VIS has had it. Weak motor and a dodgy micro switch i think.
Not to worry though, had some luck and stumbled across a guy who had two fully refurbished VIS units from Pete Scott around 3-4 months ago and had never fitted them I believe. Must have been amongst the last he'd done, safe to say I bought those -
The guy who I bought the VIS tester off also refurbs them so I'll get my others done and keep them as spares for the future.
Finally, I popped down to my local breakers yard and stripped a complete OEM reverse sensor kit from a Rover 45 -
Will be a nice Edition to the ZS.
Jay.