Ed the Herald

So, now I've been thinking through reassembly and the bits and pieces I'd need to get it together. 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 ...

So, just got home after a LONG night and most of the morning painting. Basically we've got all the suspension components, brackets, the disassembled rear spring and the chassis. All coated with a couple of coats of POR-15 in grey. The brown box partially obscured in the background are the door skins :D Its kind of a weird feeling, I'm pretty much now at the point where I'm actually, finally, really going to reassemble something. I had a couple of questions on reddit about the molasses on rust and how well it worked. These were pretty heavily rusted and i have to admit i'm really pleased with how it worked out.  Unfortunately i didnt take any before photos but they looked pretty similar to this I have found that the mixture seems to settle and needs to be stirred occasionally else it seems to lose some of its potency.

Feels a little like I've hit the mid point, the chassis went off to the media blasters yesterday. I should have it back for the weekend to paint. The suspension arms are all in a giant vat of molasses and water, which seems to be working really well. I thought i'd have a go at cleaning and painting some of the front suspension components, the vertical links, steering arms and hubs. The vertical links are going down to the mechanics to check the axle shafts then i'll pull them apart and paint them, The hubs were stripped down and painted with hi-temp paint it took a while to find hi temp paint that wasn't red or yellow. The rear body tub went to Barry at Kult Kustoms on Monday morning so should be at the media blasters by now. I tried a couple of the tricks i found online to remove underseal. i'll write a post about it one day.