1994 - Ford Escort Cosworth - power steering fluid tank

I started the day off with a dust, air dust, and a panel wipe

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mixed up the paint, then did another wipe

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then on to a mist coat

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then the firs colour coat

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then on to the last coat. With the problems with blooming last time, for this last coat I turned off the forced air feed and just left the extractor on to see if it'd help.

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I was woried it was blooming, but with the heater on for an hour or so it all seemed ok.

In fact better than OK. I achieved the best paint finish on the whole car!

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A nice lovely smooth coat of paint.. Except for the drivers door where I managed a few runs...

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Fortuitously they are where the door number square will go...

and a slight run on the boot

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I then cleaned down the boot hinges, primed, and painted them.

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and the bolts as well

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I had not anticipated how much of a pain in the backside it would be finding somewhere to fit my tyres onto my wheels.

Most of the places round by me just say "if we don't provide the tyres we don't fit them". Thats funny, you don't list competition tyres.....

I've found one place who have said bring them round and we'll have a look, hopefully they will take pitty on me tomorrow!

That's a good shout, I'll try my local garage and see what they say.

I called my local place, and he's said no problems bring them round.

Being in the middle of a farming community they do everything so should have though of them first!

coming together nicely, have you got the plastic spacer to fit the screen with (there are 4 across the bottom and 4 accross the top)

The ford parts screen lists 4 of one type for the bottom and 2 each of a different type for the top, the pictures are pretty awfull so difficult to tell if you really need them, I know you do need bit of a gap between the glass and the body to stop the screen cracking as the body flexes.

Today was mainly a thinking day.

fitted the boot pins

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then started fitting door latches plates. These have a paper gasket that has seen better days

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so bought some gasket paper and made some new ones

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I then found these kevins

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Is this the spacers you were talking about?

then fitted the bonnet pins

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To ensure these are tight I did the typical motorsport thing of cut some bits of spare hose and slip them over the bonnet pins.

I then dug out the rear spoilers to work out which ones to use

Genuine lower spoiler, not in great condition and a number of notches and scratches, and at some point someone has cut reliefs in it for bonnet pins.

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genuine upper rear spoiler.

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The issue with this is, at some point it was dropped and one leg snapped off.

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It was already repaired when I bought it. The aluminium lower mount has also corroded and split the GRP so it needs repaired.

GRP replica upper spoiler. Generally in good condition, however the lower bolt hole insert has broken out of the fiberglass so it jsut spins, plus its so corroded its unuseable so I need to cut it open and replace.

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After a test fit its also clear it needs a different hole drilled in the boot top in order to mount it

GRP replica lower spoiler. OK condition, but has a warp to it and has split on the jjoin between the two molding.

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also has a fixing bolt sheered off and the insert is spinning.

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Having looked at them all, I'm going to repair the original spoilers and fit them.

so had to do a test fit :-)

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I do like escort spoilers :-)

So Jon are you doing the middle wing on the spoiler? LOL

Should be nice when they are done and fitted.