This Zed is well known in our community for being washed more times in a week than Andy showers in a month and the level of commitment to get her to the shed has set a new record.
Andy had a 340mile trip down south at 5-1/2 hours, he left at 02:30am last Saturday to meet us all.
Once Mid life crisis vacated the shed around 1pm we quickly got Bella in to see what we were up against. First impressions everything looked to be intact and present, We could see a number of strange fixes over the years but nothing causing concern, we made the call to steam ahead and start pulling parts off.
Andy’s plan for Bella was originally just to drop the gearbox and fix new shift pins, but on closer inspection of the rear it all was in need of some love.
First items off were the spare wheel carrier, arch liners and the exhaust system. So far so good.
With the exhaust out the way we can start getting the subframe ready to be dropped. We want to thank the man who removed the side plate cap heads and fitted normal bolts. 3 hours later and everything was down.
One subframe with some funny fixes.
for an early 1998 car shes very clean.
Seems to only be local surface rust on the hanger brackets.
We also came across a vintage Fire extinguisher that’s actually older than me. It was acquired in 1985
This concluded the Zedshed day. Today we stripped down the subframe and arms for powder coating. The first item we stripped was the beam, we could see the bushes were slightly proud one end showing they had been fitted since the build date, we were even more shocked to see these bushe’s had been removed and reused, one bush you could push out by hand. First picture shows how soft they are, you shouldn’t be able to do this at all
Bush not fully seated and remnants of some old grease
Diff seems to be in nice condition so this will be a nice re paint
So it worth noting Andy had the beam and arms powder coated 18months ago, this was due to one arm being totally toast, it’s great to see the under side of both arms in great condition still. We did notice some small issues with the coating, the arms don’t appear to be fully coated allowing some corrosion to form.
Coating not covering the bearing enclosure this won’t take many years to become and issue
the next photo shows a hole in the end of the arm, if your not aware each swing arm is filled with a small amount oil and air tight sealed with a bung, we always make sure we reinstate these after coating, we want to keep out the moisture and dirt. The reason they’re removed is due to the arms being baked after coating.
So the rear end came apart Nice n easy. Shafts don’t look too shabby for 22 years. We’ll give these a spruce up.
a nice pile of parts forming for the coaters tomorrow.
Dam reached my photo limit
Andy had a 340mile trip down south at 5-1/2 hours, he left at 02:30am last Saturday to meet us all.
Once Mid life crisis vacated the shed around 1pm we quickly got Bella in to see what we were up against. First impressions everything looked to be intact and present, We could see a number of strange fixes over the years but nothing causing concern, we made the call to steam ahead and start pulling parts off.
Andy’s plan for Bella was originally just to drop the gearbox and fix new shift pins, but on closer inspection of the rear it all was in need of some love.
First items off were the spare wheel carrier, arch liners and the exhaust system. So far so good.
With the exhaust out the way we can start getting the subframe ready to be dropped. We want to thank the man who removed the side plate cap heads and fitted normal bolts. 3 hours later and everything was down.
One subframe with some funny fixes.
for an early 1998 car shes very clean.
Seems to only be local surface rust on the hanger brackets.
We also came across a vintage Fire extinguisher that’s actually older than me. It was acquired in 1985
This concluded the Zedshed day. Today we stripped down the subframe and arms for powder coating. The first item we stripped was the beam, we could see the bushes were slightly proud one end showing they had been fitted since the build date, we were even more shocked to see these bushe’s had been removed and reused, one bush you could push out by hand. First picture shows how soft they are, you shouldn’t be able to do this at all
Bush not fully seated and remnants of some old grease
Diff seems to be in nice condition so this will be a nice re paint
So it worth noting Andy had the beam and arms powder coated 18months ago, this was due to one arm being totally toast, it’s great to see the under side of both arms in great condition still. We did notice some small issues with the coating, the arms don’t appear to be fully coated allowing some corrosion to form.
Coating not covering the bearing enclosure this won’t take many years to become and issue
the next photo shows a hole in the end of the arm, if your not aware each swing arm is filled with a small amount oil and air tight sealed with a bung, we always make sure we reinstate these after coating, we want to keep out the moisture and dirt. The reason they’re removed is due to the arms being baked after coating.
So the rear end came apart Nice n easy. Shafts don’t look too shabby for 22 years. We’ll give these a spruce up.
a nice pile of parts forming for the coaters tomorrow.
Dam reached my photo limit
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