Outlaw Anglia - took it racing & lifted the wheels!

I took my Pop to the Aylesbury meet this morning - there were a good bunch of very nice Pops there amongst all of the other cars, it was a good morning out meeting up with friends and the weather was perfect. I left my phone at work otherwise I would have taken some photos.

In the afternoon Phil came over and with the tools that we have been lent by our friend Mike I started on the rear axle assembly. The wishbone mounts are now shimmed properly and bolted up tight. The bolts and a few small areas have been touched in with primer again and once topcoated the bolts will be wired together.



I made a start on shimming the bearings in the hub carriers, one side is done but I need more shims for the other side - these should arrive tomorrow so with luck I can sort those tomorrow and get on with the rest of the reassembly.

Some other parts of the axle (washers) were primed with a few small parts of the car that needed doing, one of which was the exposed threads on the pedal assembly where it exits the bulkhead. These will be glossed tomorrow.



Battery cables are now terminated.

I am surprised you didn't clean the battery before fitting it 😄

I think I'd come under that heading of being a dumb battery 😂

It has to be fully drivable by 11th June as thats the date we are doing a 1000 mile drive around the lake district!
No pressure then

It will be ready but it won't be finished.

Tonight was a bit frustrating as I hoped to get a bit further that I have.
It all started well with the new rear panel I cut at work almost fitting perfectly first time. Some minor trimming and sanding the edges saw it in place and I then drilled the fixings where it bolts to the parcel shelf. I will install rivnuts tomorrow when I borrow the tool from work.



Then it was back on the rear axle. I had the delivery of the shims today so armed with those I got the other bearing carrier lower bearings shimmed correctly. Once that was done I greased all of the bearings up and also the felt washers and installed all of the relevant parts for assembly.

Where it got a bit frustrating was when I realised that I cannot assemble the bearing carrier to the lower wishbone until its all fitted to the car. Also the powder coating had to be carefully filed off the inside of the bolt holes as they had not masked all of them off. The same went for the grease nipples, I had to run a tap through the holes before twiddling the nipples for some time to get them in.



So it looks like the next job will be getting the calipers reassembled & fitted to the diff with the handbrake parts and getting that back under the car. The gearbox crossmember will need to be refitted so the radius arms can fit to the lower wishbones as the bolt for those has to be installed before the hub carriers go back on.

841 hours.

Yeah playing with some nipples is always top of my fun list

I was just hoping to get the hubs on the lower arms and then fit them to the diff later.

Another frustrating evening.
I started fitting the wishbone inner bearings - these are the ones given to us recently that have only been used for about 200 miles. First pair went in fine, second pair and the sleeve was binding in the bearing. Pressed them out again and inspected them carefully...........oh dear
When they were removed by the previous owner they must have been punched out with a drift rather than pressed out, the sides of the casing are damaged & split on 3 of them. I carefully inspected all of them and the other 5 are fine.



Another shipment from David Manners is now in order.

I also bloody hate powder coating. So called professional job and it's all flaking off with no adhesion.



People ask me why I bother painting parts - well thats why. Paint may chip easier but it does not fall off in sheets. Water will creep under that and rust fron the inside. I'll have to grind it back and paint that section now.

The rest of the evening was cleaning parts for reassembly and reaming out shaft holes of debris so the cleaned up shafts fit smoothly.

843 hours.

Great progress Mark.
Re powder coating, I've never seen any that lasted. Once chipped it's worse than useless.

gazzam the panel is 10mm Birch ply with a pvc coating on both sides. We use it for making flight cases at work.

Paul & Peter,

We were seduced by the guy who narrowed the rear axle as he said they would be sandblasted, primed and then coated. It seems they were just coated over the cleaned part. The coating is very thick, so at least that part is ok but now I wish I'd just painted them.