92 City, My First Rebuild by big-jay

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Update,

Spent the weekend refurbishing a few engine ancillaries, I'll start with the purchased items.

I'll apologise in advance for the quality of the pictures, my camera on my phone has stopped working since taking a dunking so I've been having to use the camera on my iPod which isn't the best.

Went to see Mark from Smiffys bits and picked up a few bits -



A few bits from Minispares needed to refurb the distributor amongst other things -



Now onto the progress, started with the starter motor. Before -



Wire brushed down to bare metal -



Zinc Primed -





Painted with a few coats of gloss black -



Applied some fresh grease and then put it back together -



Next up was the dizzy, stripped it down and wire brushed the lot. I taped up the aluminium housing so I could paint the vacuum advance, here it is zinc primed -



A few coats of gloss black applied -



New points, Condenser and an uprated rotor arm installed -



And a new cap to finish it off -



For some reason the paint on my engine has cracked and started flaking off so I've had to do something about that, here's how it looked -



I bagged up all of the bits I didn't want anything getting into and then wire brushed all the lose stuff off using a manual wire brush. Bagged up -



And wire brushed -



I repainted the block and head with some fresh paint -



Annoying as I put a lot of effort into painting it the first time round, but what can you do, these thing happen I suppose. Anyway with that done It was time to start bolting the ancillaries back on along with a few shiny bits from Smiffys.

Starter motor back on and connected up -



Dizzy back on and connected up -



Stainless alternator brackets bolted on -



New alternator fitted -



New coil along with stainless brackets and rubber cover fitted -



Pipercross air filter bolted on -



And also the bulkhead blanking plate -



Finally, this is how the engine bay currently looks. Almost finished in there now -



I have ran the engine with the fresh paint on today and all's looking good so far, no cracking/flaking to be seen !

That's all the progress for this weekend, will hopefully be receiving my door cards and sun visors from optimise tomorrow so I'll have some pictures of those then.