This part of the cars life has been brought to a close, it'll sit dormant in the barn now until I have finished the AX racecar and the yellow 2cv and everything else I've got on.
It's last journey for a while upon the works FLT up onto the stands so I can rob the arms and cans off it.
It was a good chance to see how the rushed and slapdash welding work I'd done to it a year ago to get it back onto the road had held up. The chassis was full of crushed iron shotblast medium, which was asking for it really, but so far the chassis has taken a serious pounding and gone through several axle bolts but is as solid as they day I rebuilt it. It would have helped if I'd larrupped the cans and the threaded slider things in coppaslip as they had started to rust, thankfully they weren't a problem but when I reassemble them I'll pay more attention to details like that.
The rack was full of water.
This is the rear heel I replaced both parts as well as the sill and floor and it still looks quite passable for a slapped together rushjob. Without blowing my own trumpet, it's better than some of the dogshit that supposed specialists knock out.
The bulkhead and front of the floor/sill is also looking pretty solid still. I might even fill it full of waxoyl when it's laid up so it may stand a chance of lasting another year on the road.
Burton trackrod adjuster is seized solid, broke a spanner, god knowns how it's going to come off, but I think it'd be easier to bin it and buy a new one.
And that's that for a fairly long time, unless I stack the yellow one or I suddenly have a pressing urge to fix it again. It's been a good old crate really, a years motoring for about £700 isn't bad in these days, and there's still a fairly decent car left over at the end of it all. It'll return, one day....
