92 City, My First Rebuild by big-jay

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Update,

Didn't get too much done today unfortunately, but progress is progress, I'll start with the bits and pieces purchased during the week.

I took full advantage of the sale Smiffys Bits had on Black Friday and purchased a few of the more expensive parts he has to offer. I also went to Minispares this morning and picked up a few nuts and bolts and some radiator overflow tube -



Fitted the stainless caps onto the tower bolts -





Brake reservoir cover fitted -



Got my freshly rebuilt pedal box fitted, along with the accelerator pedal -



With that in place the next job was to fit the servo assembly to the car, gasket in place -



Stainless plate added -



And then the servo -



Also fitted the new seat anchors -





And Finally I fitted my stainless steering drop down braket I got from Kiddspeed a while ago -



That's all for today but if all goes to plan tomorrow I should be fitting my brake kit I got from minisport !

12-7-2014

Update,

Well today didn't go as planned unfortunately. I jacked the car up and removed the passenger side wheel only to find the new cv boot fitted a couple of weeks ago had a small split in it -



Now, I'm not sure whether this happen'd when I was fitting it or if it was already there. Luckily though I had a brand new spare one.

So, ended up having to remove the whole hub assembly until I was left with this -



Wrestled the cv joint off the drive shaft and replaced the rubber boot -



And refitted the cv joint -



I also noticed I didn't fit the white platic dust shield over the oil seal on the back of the hub, so I dug that out and fitted it -



So with the hub back on, we started on the job I originally intended to do, fitting the brake assembly. Screwed the drive flange to the disk -



Placed that assembly onto the shaft and torqued it up using the flat washer tool from minispares, here it is -



Took that back off and put the hub nut split washer on, then torqued that up and put the split pin through the whole and bent it around -



Fitted the caliper and the braided hose -



And then put the wheel back on, took a picture through the headlamp hole, looks the nuts -



Started getting dark so we didn't have time to do the other side, but I did fit my bonnet catch assembly with the stainless bracket from Smiffy's -



That's all for today, but I may get the drivers side done tomorrow, weather permitting of course !

12-14-2012

Update,

A bit more progress made today, I swapped the brake disk on the passenger side with the other one, so now the holes are facing forward -



And then got the drivers side built up -





With the wheel back on -



Here's an overall shot of how we currently stand -



Still lots to be done I'm sure you can see. Anyway, I put the car away and went around the back to make a start on stripping down the last few parts that need refurbing.

Here's the gear selector before -



And after -



I'm going to replace all of the rubber components, clean up and polish the aluminium casing and I'm thinking about having the two arms powder coated.

I also stripped the steering column down, before -



After -



Same story with this really, I'll replace the nylon bushes in the column and give the whole thing a general clean up. All of the electrical components are fine so I dont have to worry about those. I'm looking at getting a Moto Lita steering wheel and Boss which should finish it off nicely.

That's all the progress for today