A TCL First? '67 Rolls Royce project thread...

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got the rear calipers off, everything is nearly ready to head up north and get made fresh again.

getting the rears off required a bit more persuasion than the fronts did, and looked to actually be in much worse shape (i was expecting the opposite).
the right ebrake linkage was nearly frozen shut, and the left caliper's piston seals are wasted. about as flexible as dried leaves. really nasty.
the other side looked a lot more fresh, despite looking like it hadnt ever been off the car.

anyway, as it goes with old brake lines, more broken stuff ... but this one looks like an easy one to recreate (and i had more fed hill line on the way anyway, since a couple of the front caliper short interconnecting hard lines needed redoing, so not a major set back)

onto the pics!


right before i snapped the top inlet line into a couple pieces

nasty

a lot better (actually flexible) despite looking original, and the mounting hardware being a lot more stuck

these short guys from the front calipers were getting remade anyway... one of them looked sort of kinked, and the other had a nearly frozen nut

shot down the right rear corner, you can see the cap at the soft line to stop fluid leaking. another upside to this particular line breaking is that access is easy to the whole thing. a lot more trivial than the rear suspension hard lines that broke last year. nothing to fish this one around, it just drops right in

and the broken bit

luckily still have lots of the nuts left from last time!

i knew buying that brake flaring tool was a good idea!

3-9-2013

Not really anything as detailed as this one, I posted a thread here in TCL when I first got it, and updated that a couple times... And I've posted a few pics in the land rover thread over in the 4x4 forum here.

My ultra base model 1 is gonna be a poor comparison if he's shopping for a D2 though.


And in RR news, it now has a fan shroud. I did some test polishing on the new paint and I think it's gonna look pretty good with the bumper back on.
Pics to come tomorrow or Monday...

3-13-2013

my D1 is actually for sale now. need to trim the fleet a bit before the tdi arrives...


anyway, a couple pics of the fan shroud from last weekend.






not much else going on to take pictures of... the brakes and the ignition switch are all in canada about to get rebuilt now.
i got the parts to remake all the hardlines for this round, and the paintwork is all wrapped up and just needs to be polished.
i hope to have all that done this weekend so i can put the rear bumper back on and be ready with everything it needs when the brakes and ignition switch show up again.
weve got good weather just around the corner now so im anxious to get everything back together so we can enjoy it

3-19-2013

couple quick pics of the car as it sits now
borrowing a rad wide angle lens for a few days and thought id take advantage... really makes shooting in the shop much nicer!





end result isnt perfect, but it looks a lot better especially with the bumper back on, and it buffed out ok.
as i think i mentioned earlier the new color is a hair on the light side but... no more primer! so ill count that as a win


now the wait for the brake and interior parts....