Been busy with a few things yesterday, after returning from the Gathering.
Got given some dark fabric seats by a MX5nutz-er in Scotland for Nicola's car as the leather ones added to the blandness of the interior and were scuffed etc. They were driven down by Bill in his yellow Escort 1600 Sport.
So then traveled part of the trip back in the rear of the Chevy, and at Buckingham where I collected a pillar drill, they were moved into the Grizz-Pod trailer.
Cleaned and serviced.....
£80.00 well spent on the garage.
Back home I cleaned them up, though they were clean already.
Also needed to re-assemble them.
Before the show I had managed to buy some spares from Mystery Machine who had brought them along, saving the postage. Thanks Bruce.
Needs resto.
I had also bought a stainless "radiator protector" from MX5nutz last week, another completely pointless bit of shiny add on for the car.
New tonneau cover tested..... Old seats in place.
Then Post Man Pat arrived and I had a dressed up wife come down the garden, wearing this....
As I was busy prepping the car for its retest for the MOT, I told her to unpack the item, soon she was back.
10 minutes was all it took to fit the new seats, which may be a bit of a "Marmite" option for some.....lucky they do not have to live with it.
One of the failures at MOT test was a snapped drop link.
On inspection, it seemed the other was fractured as well, so I replaced both while I was at it.
I had also replaced the indicators as both on the care had cracks, one of the replacements was not perfect, but still is better than the original.
Then the fun started.
I had to split the tie rod ends etc, my tools were not up to it and rust had had a good time over the last 21 years.
Fortunately the local garage had the right tool, making splitting them, to replace the rubber dust caps a lot easier.
I eventually finished the job at 20.45 last night.
Today after work I fitted a load of bits to the car, including the lather gaiters, and a new gearbox rubber tunnel cover\gaiter.
Chrome style bar fitted tonight as well.
Tomorrow afternoon is retest time and also two new tyres to get fitted.
Then tax and hopefully Nicola can start using the car.