I've rebuilt the pedals, painted them etc. heater box i repainted with epoxy. Pulled the master cylinders apart and got them down to the shop for a light honing. Dropped the rear axles and the hub puller to the mechanic as i dont have the 17mm allen key drive to pop them. Dropped all the suspension parts to the mechanic to put the bushes in. all sorts.
As i was going through in my head the assemble process i realised a couple of things:
- Trunion kits dont contain the top seal,
- My heater valve was completely shot (would explain why the car was always warm inside),
- Complete bush kits dont contain shock bushes, or rear diff bushes.
- You can get a set of solid brake lines made to length in the UK and shipped to NZ for about 1/2 the cost you can get them made here.
- There's quite a lot of triumph parts for sale at good prices on ebay.
- Canley classics parts are still great and their communication is still shit house
- TR7 Master cylinder kits are the same as Herald ones.
- Deodorized fish oil still smells pretty bad.
- There are all sorts of little rubber bits you just dont think about (dust covers for the rear wheel cylinders, door check strap seals, master cylinder gaters and gearbox mounts for example)
As you can guess from point 8, I've spent a little time spraying fish oil into the chassis rails. Its deodorized I've since found out that deodorized does not mean odorless and although it doesn't reek as bad as i suspect normal fish oil does it still smells pretty ripe.
I didn't do anything else this weekend, but i will certainly be going up this weekend and expect to have the front suspension back on at least partially. This week I'm hoping to have the master cylinders rebuilt and the last of the brake pedal sorted out.
The rear tub is also complete too which is good. I'll be picking it up in a week or so to reassemble that body. Cringe, I'm not looking forward to that.
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