Painting r us

Right the re-welded bits have been painted. Also painted are the drive shafts, steering rack extenders, steering rack mounts, engine mounts and the second diff. Who knows when I will get another chance to work on the car :( but I'm glad that the chassis is fixed.

Cut and Welded

Right, so we had a friend round last night who was able to correct the skew rear suspension mounting rail. He took the long way round and decided to cut the gussets off and move the rail 6 mm outwards. The whole job 2 and a half hours and he used a Arc welder to do it.




Oh one other thing, I have named my Ka Yimmy!

New bits

On the car front there are a few pictures to show of parts that arrived round about the 14th of Dec last year.

This is a spacer made up by a friend its solid Ali and is really well finished.

The same friend is making our fuel tank. its made from marine grade Ali, he brought it round to test fit before he puts the baffles and sides on. Its capacity should be around 37l. Then there is the old diff I have started cleaning it off but stopped due to the oil spill when I drained it (smells really interesting in the garage.)

New Diff and half shafts on the way

Tomorrow I'm going to get a new diff and half shafts. The ones we bought first time round had the wrong size hub bearing. Pity about the cash but I think its the right decision. We will now be able to move forward quite a bit. Besides not having shocks we should have a rolling chassis by the end of the weekend. Pics to follow (My SWMBO has the camera)

I'm really excited about the project at the moment hopefully we will get alot done this weekend.

I'm still alive

This weekend I finally got back to working on the car. I have now put it the steering column, extended bottom link and rack. I've also done the front suspension.

There was quite alot of work involved getting the front wishbones backed out properly with washers, oh and before anyone freaks out the nuts we are using are temporary we will change them for nylock nuts as soon as we are happy with everything.

Its starting to come together at the front at last

Our pimping steering wheel that cost a cool R200

At last we have an oil pickup, this one came from Toyota and cost a small fortune but I was fed up with trying to find one. So now the sump can go back on.