1980 series 1 20vt build

olethalb said

Strong plans Neil, i assume the strip n dip isn't cheap

no not as bad as i thought tbh,
went and spoke to a local restoration place that ive heard good things about, and they use the strippers for there hillman imp and mk1 escort builds , and i had a look at 3 shell that had been done last year,and just sat there as they came from coating and  still not a patch of rust on them, so its off for any welding that i find done , then off to the strippers ,
all worth it in the long run

Sounds really good, i have a rust fear haha, i don't mind chopping it out andwelding new sections in but get un naturally paranoid it will come back  

Your way should take care of that and 'future proof' the old girl  

lol i know the feeling,
i thought about blasting and asked the bloke, he advised going down the stripping route instead, , once he,d put my mind at rest about horror stories you hear, and he showed my the finished shells , my mind was made up 

well this afternoon i thought id split the engine and box

so got the lump on the crane and got the gearbox off, , took the drive shafts off that had been chopped with an angle grinder
and then started to gunk it with foam gunk and a brush, got a fair bit off but its got a long way to go yet

Looking forward to seeing what you do with this

cheers rich well cracked on with the gearbox cleaning once i woke up this afty , if your going to do this dont waste your money on the foam gunk, its pants,, i bought both, looking at it this afty once yesterdays wash had dried it had only scratched the surface tbh so the liquid gunk came out , and as soon at i put it on you could see the bulk coming off it before i even started agitating it with the brush, then pressure washed it, repeated the process 4 times, ( about 40 mins in total ) then left it to dry while i drove to halfrauds for the paint ,which was a 20 min journey only to get there and realise id left my wallet at home like a mong so thats a job for 2moro now, may start splitting the rest of the engine down too heres the end result

Boxhas come up nice, need to tackle mine sometime

yeah i really thought it was going to be a ballache but wasnt bad at all time and work wise,
ill paint it tomorrow with hammerite smooth spray, , then start stripping the engine 

I'd love to get a box vapour blasted, had a 1.8t mani done once and it was awesome

yeah mate they look spot on when done 

Keeping an eye on this, great work so far m8. Can't wait for more progress. 

J

jamieross said

Keeping an eye on this, great work so far m8. Can't wait for more progress.

J

cheers mate


etch primed the gearbox this afternoon when i got up, , and left it to dry for a few hours, then just gave it a topcoat of vht paint

come out well , just got the shifter tower to do tomorrow afternoon , thats getting done in black












 

Wow. Gearbox looks awesome. Will be keeping an eye on this. 

Nice job on the gearbox, that foam gunk seems pretty good

Great job on the gearbox  

Matt

SPEEDYGONZALES said

Wow. Gearbox looks awesome. Will be keeping an eye on this. 

cheers mate, its come up great

Melteddrummer said

Nice job on the gearbox, that foam gunk seems pretty good

cheers, , dont bother with the foam gunk, it did nothing compared to the liquid,

pazwaa said

Great job on the gearbox  Matt

thanks matt

well finished the gearbox this morning when i got in from work, then started the stripping the engine once id had a kip

gearbox is looking good now, couple of bolts to touch up and i can put it away for time being




this is where im upto on the engine, lots off cleaning to do tomorrow followed by alot of wire wheeling






 

Nice going :-)

Nice job on the gearbox, looks like new