1966 Mk1 cortina GT She Drives!

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I managed to get the bolt out of the axle, it didnt take a lot of effort which was a nice surprise, I have fitted the lowering blocks but they need a fettle to get them 100% but at least I know what they fit etc

I think I'll need to add a spacer to the wheels when they go on as they look a little bit lost in the arches

I decided to try multitasking as it seems to work out well for the Mrs! so whilst lowering blocks were being fitted and I dropped the centre console and passenger seat into the car (no where to store them till we've moved house) I thought I'd try electrolysis!

The exhaust manifold has some extra holes in it that need to be addressed and it looks pretty ropey, it needs to have clean metal so that I can weld it up and paint it - usually I would wire wheel parts as its quick and easy but the problem with that is that there won't be much manifold let afterwards!

The setup is pretty easy, I had the plastic drum in the garage - It is usually used for storing rags and doubles as a seat for when I am polishing stuff! and the washing soda was £1 for a KG (it should be enough to do this for everything on the car!) and a battery charger

After an hour - I wasn't sure if it was going to work!

after 4 hours - rusty soup!

I pulled it out and rinsed it off - it looks much better than I thought it would

I would recommend this as its something you can do whilst working on other jobs - I think I have an old sieve which would work for doing bolts etc at the same time