Made some good progress today, wrapping up a lot of little but important things.
Finished off a workbench strong enough to park a small house on, and got electrics sorted and most importantly additional lighting. 5ft tubes are cheap in Homebase, rest of it came from Screwfix and QVS.
Air filter/regulator can be seen in the photo, bargain-tastic at Aldi :-) £80 for a 2.5hp compressor.
Mike did some more parts prep, after Hammerite Rust Remover Gel, wire brush by hand, wire brush in drill, Cilit Bang Power Degreaser (!), then Black Hammerite Smooth.
As can be seen, finish isn't the smoothest! But the priority is performance on this car not perfect finish and Mike didn't want the extra cost and time of stripping, then a Vinegar Bath or Electrolysis to remove the thick rust coating.
Also finished fitting the bushes into the wishbones and pedals. Not too many problems, Mike had used a Dremel with sanding drum to clean up inside tubes as advised by GBS, and used a vice to press the bushes in (hopefully) nice and square. Tip: sand a small angle (chamfer) on the edge of the tube to help guide the bushes in. Pedal was ridiculously tight so some of the bush got shaved off (oo-er) on the way in.
Note: never been sure weather you can use grease or not to help assembly and prevent corrosion inside wishbone tubes, so we assembled dry. Hard work but went ok.
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