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I got the engine out of the TF sub frame and the gear box is now half out.
I can now get it home and start refurbing it to go on the VVC.

I also started the rebuild on the silencer heat shield.

talkingcars wrote: wrote:

I got the engine out of the TF sub frame and the gear box is now half out.
I can now get it home and start refurbing it to go on the VVC.

I also started the rebuild on the silencer heat shield.

Come on TC, you know the rules....where the piccies?

Sundance

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graham1 wrote: wrote:

have to get me some of those. have you got a link to the lights on e-Bay? thank you.

Here you go.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F272716793027

SundanceUK wrote: wrote:

Come on TC, you know the rules....where the piccies?

Sundance

They may follow in another thread.

Finally fitted roll hoops, and finally found the heated screen wires and realising the rear speakers are naff when taking the t-bar confirmed my thoughts.

So this weekend was a bit of a fail.

My daughter was given a summer house by her neighbour when they moved and the housing association said that they couldn't leave it. About a year ago a group of us moved it by lifting it with trolley jacks and sliding it on long ladders from one garden to the other. You may wonder why we moved it complete, it had been insulated, wired and lined and it was hoped to keep it so. Oh, and it's large, 16 by 8.

Over the last year my "son in law" has been refacing and repainting it and turning it into a workshop, mostly for Kayleigh's craft ventures.
But he has no idea about wiring.
There was a length of armoured cable coming from the shed that reached half way up the garden.
I offered to sort it out and get it connected up for them, and my son offered to help.

The first problem was to extend the cable to reach the house which was made easier by a sky engineer who, for some reason drilled a new hole for the new cable rather than reuse the hole for the previous installation. However when I looked at the fusebox in the workshop, it had been wired backwards, positive to neutral and vs versa! And using the pre 2005 wiring colours. However when you looked at the other end it was post 2005 colours. I decided the only sensible action was to completely rewire the workshop using the correct cable and correct metal clad sockets and fuses. But we ran out of day light.

And in between I took Mrs TC down to Brighton to spend the day with her son.

That was yesterday.

Today wasn't much better....

The plan was to change the rear pads and disks on the ZS as they were noted on the last two MOTs - by the time I got moving today I had 45 minutes before the start of the Abu Dhabi F1, enough time to do one side.

Or it would have been if I'd been able to find the special key bold for the "designer" nuts on the wheels despite emptying the boot and checking both other cars just in case, and then at F1 - 5 it appeared in the glovebox, and in a fag box, not in the correct place in the boot with four spare bolts!

So I watched the F1 and at 3 laps to go my son turned up to help with the brakes.

By the time the F1 had finished the sun was below the houses over the road and sun set was 40 minutes away, the pads will have wait.
Instead we reinstalled the battery in the ZR, and despite not being fired up for the best part of two months she started instantly, Jimmy pumped the tyres to the correct pressure and I moved her forwards and pack to free the brakes.

Then it was the turn of the tyre pressures on the F, I must remember to use TF pressures.

And then it was dark.

looks like you have kept yourself busy.

Moving inside we tried to do a bit more on the heat shield riveting the chrome cover in place only to break the rivet gun.
I don't know if it was age or using a cheap tool on stainless steel rivets.

talkingcars wrote: wrote:

Moving inside we tried to do a bit more on the heat shield riveting the chrome cover in place only to break the rivet gun.
I don't know if it was age or using a cheap tool on stainless steel rivets.

What are you using to repair the heat shield?

I've bought a sheet of embossed aluminium (from China). Its supposedly heat shield material but it feels a bit flimsy to me. My plan is to fold the edges over to strengthen them and possibly incorporate a strip of thin steel where the fixing bolts are.

I am using a stainless steel flip top bin that had out lived it's live in the house ( it got in to a fight and lost!)

This has been cut up and will sit on the outer face.
I am riveting this to the O/W shield with metal pallet banding on the inside to spread the load.

I will then reline the inside with heat reflective tape.

But at the moment it looks a bit like Hellraiser.

That sounds like a proper job!

I like the sound of pallet band to strengthen. I might try that on the edges of the stuff I’ve got to give it some more rigidity. And I may use my material to face the original shield which has only broken on one of the mounting points - so far.