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Auto Stick Restoration

Pan work part 2.

Looking back those previous photos looked kind of crap, so i thought i would take some more to show you how it really looks now its been painted twice and finished off.

So here you can see the pan in its nice red oxide coating, with the blacked out seat rails (as this is the part you can see through the carpet).

Closer view of the front

Coolies and that’s it for now before i lay down the new underlay, i didn’t need to paint the tunnel bit as it was fine but i may do it later as a just in-case. You can also see the cable that hooks the gear selector to the automatic clutch.

That’s it for this topic.

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Cool Stuff Restoration

Body Off

Okies so i had the motor out and i was stumped on how to get it into pieces (another post with the solution to come), so i decided to keep going on the car. I told my father about taking the body off the pan and he wanted to do it so i thought why the hell not.

Built a jig to hold the body off the ground (may need to build a better one at one stage with wheels.)

Car on the jig about to drop, There are 2 bolts on the back near the shockers, 4 inside above where the battery sits, another 18 or so bolts under the heater channels along each side (make sure you check i didnt and alomost ended up foo-bared). and 2 at the front under the tank.

Tank out, good idea before you take it out to try and get as much petrol out, with a syphon .. dont use your mouth as my father found out haha.

Up / Down she goes, a bit of creaking and scary bits but over all was good.

There we go up in the air totally ready to roll the pan out.

Normally they would sit good but i found the automatic tanks tended to get in the way, so i took them off.

And she is out, almost didnt clear the (seriously cleared with about 1mm clearence) jiggs, (so make it a bit higher than 80cm.)

More to come.