Well a Bank Holiday weekend with sun !! So jacked her up and had a look under the front .... sub frame was showing a fair bit of surface rust but did not look too serious. Swing arms seemed to be in pretty good nick, again mainly surface rust and build up of dirt.
So wheels off and give it a wire brush and treat with Krust. Thought it would be a simple job... no such luck. Wheel nuts where the fist hurdle - solid as a rock, even jumping on extended break bar they didn't want to budge
So overnight soak with perertaiong oil and another go, bit more brut force and manage to get them free eventually. Great, but...hang on the wheels still would not lift off. Both front wheels where like they where still bolted on! Had been told that alloy against steel drums can cause a chemical reaction that is like weilding parts together, they weren't wrong. So took a lump hammer, wood block and about 20 minutes of banshing the hell out of it to free them off.
Obviously these had not be off for some time and the person before may not of heard of copper grease.
Anyway set to work with the electric drill and wire brush fitment and gave the subframe a going over, couple of hours later was ready to brush way the mess and then painted over with Krust. No major issues found (thank goodness) and it looked a lot better than when I started. Cleaned up the hubs, disks (may need to replace them sooner rather than later) and the alloy wheels and put them back on, with a new set of wheel nuts and copper grease
Next job is the rear end ... better set aside a clear weekend for that then.