Right last friday i went down the garden to find some nuts and bolts for the red 2cv and this was looking in a very sorry state covered in dust rust patches every where and the "tidy up" above didn't do much for it so i decided this week it needed some real attention. rust patches got rust killed.
Monday:
fog/driving/spot lights I dont know what to call them but i started with these, they'd been sitting in my bedroom since late last year, I started off thinking I'll just put them on the bar but soon began to think what if the look shit, so i didn't really want to drill holes in that or the roof. So I had some steel and an old barbecue and built a light bar which is way to heavy and overly strong for what it needs to be but it does the job. came to wiring them in and thought ahh poo no wires, no switches, no relay. I got 10m of wire thinking I'd over compensate for what I needed, but I used it all
ok so i was being generous with it but still 10m of wiring
got toggle switches and a relay too re read the topic i made in technical a while back to give me an idea of what I was going to do.
Turned out not to be as hard as expected it just took a while. when fiddling around under the bonnet i managed to get the electric fan working again still not quite sure how, think it was a loose connection.
Did some other minor things too. after this when my dad got home we were going to move it round to the front of the house, needed my dad to move the trailer with the volvo. the battery went dead just as I was starting it to move it (it had started first time with out fail all day) so had to bump start it. once round the front of the house I started to mess round with the rear fog light and eventually thought duck it i cant be arsed any more. I realised I'd been working on it for 12 hour
Tuesday:
Absolutely knackered woke up late, walked dog, it was now long past lunch time, I was in a lazy mood so I thought I'd paint the chassis and touch up the body put the ramps under diagonally opposing whee and tried to put it on in reverse in 2 wheel the front wheel with out the ramp screeched on the oil patch from where the red 2cv had been, still tired and slightly annoyed, slammed it into 4x4 and gunned it at the ramps and it went straight up. Happy.
as you can imagine with all the mud it gets dragged through the chassis is coated in crap despite multiple jet washes, so when underneath the car its best have goggles or something on your eyes couldn't find goggles so i took the light filter off the welding maskand used that instead i must have looked pretty stupid, painted the chassis in hamerite.
Touched up the body with a yellow that doesn't quite match but its amazing what a difference it makes! It looked a hell of a lot smarter, re painted both sills and below the number plate on the bonnet.
Today:
started early, Vreidesteins keep going flat. theres not alot of 4x4ing going on at the moment so it was tonka toy tyres on but that meant ducking around moving them from under the a body and propping the body back up.
Put them on they give a good 4 inch extra ride height, after lifting the body and putting these on you can imagine how my back felt. so it was time to mess around with the rear fog the inside was corroded and especially on the contacts so i re wired it and riveted new contacts on and messed around a bit with an earthing point and decided to just go straight to the chassis. thats now working, happy days. The next bit it would fail an MoT on would be the floor, it had come away from the toe board and the toe board had come away from the a panel, welder out, im not brilliant at welding well no Im shit at welding and I wasn't overly impressed with my repair, but under paint it appears to look ok which is good
Now some random images that mean nothing:
a range rover that i thought looked cool and might take some ideas from
. Jeep tyres I think he said...
