1989 Citroen 2CV, rolling restoration.. In theory.

Ooh lovely, that's an early one. Jealous.

Todays progress, axle refurb. They looked to be pretty good, king pins are fine, I have a recent ish invoice for having them sorted, so it was just a case of cleaning them up a bit.

Crusty, covered in underseal and grease.

A while later, following some aggression with a twist knot wire wheel in the grinder, and a load of degreaser.


And front


Then spring cans and a few other bits.


Started masking up in the oven..



Etch primer on..


Rust preventative primer


Then on with the shiny shiny.






I wanted to get the chassis painted too, but time got the better of me, it'll be next weekend for that now.

The mini doesn't quite know what to make of it all.

Update time..

I got sick of giving myself a hernia every time I moved the engine, so I gave it some wheels.

You can do it if you B&Q it..


A bit of hacking and welding later..



I was seriously considering mounting the engine on the trolley and fitting the body over it, but someone pointed out that due to the wheel size, the speedo would be out, so I decided not to bother.

In other news, Got the chassis cleaned up and repainted. I don't have a before pic, but it was smothered in underseal. Cleaned off the worst of that, and set about removing any flaky or dodgy looking paint. Discovered some funny foamy type rubberised paint on the inside floor section, which made me think it might just be an original Citroen chassis..


This confirmed my suspicions..


I shone a torch inside one of the top holes, and it looked like it had been brush painted INSIDE and waxoyled.. which was a bit mystifying until I realised that someone had cut off the lower belly pan, painted inside, then welded it up again!



I goes against the laws of physics for an original chassis to stay this good..



I then soaked the whole thing in Gunk degreaser, to remove any remaining underseal residue


Prepped and hung up in le Auvergne.


Etched..


Stone chipped the inner floor section..


Primed..


Painted




I set my gun to pinpoint setting and squirted some chassis black right up the legs


It'll be getting thoroughly drowned in Waxoyl as well, so should last a few years yet.

That's all for now, I know you're all on the edge of your seats, but you'll have to wait til next weekend..

Crikey. Very unusual for a late chassis to survive so well. Clearly cutting the bottom off and painting the inside was a good strategy!

any updates, as i am really feeling the 2cv love

Not updated this for a while, got a little done, not as much as I would have hoped but works been very busy and had a lot of other shiz going down.

Started on the body.

Got it on it's side


Mmm crusty


Started stripping old underseal, mud, stonechip, and paint. With the assistance of FIRE


Bare metalled the rear section of the underside



Found a couple of bits needing a tickle from the metal fairy.



Put a bit of etch over it to protect it before I do the welding.


Modified the track rod ends to make greasing a bit easier


Cleaned up the engine

Before


Loads of Gunk, and alloy cleaner later..


Also painted up the heat exchangers and other bits n bobs, I'm yet to build it all up.

Nice work. This is going to be a lovely 2CV

Top work!

Thanks for the encouraging comments, does help with the old enthusiasm..

I used one and a half, and about 20 80 grit da discs. The wire wheels last for ages.