67 Wolseley MkI 18/85

It's been an interesting week......

Tuesday evening, I decided to remove the drive shafts in their entirety to improve access to the rear of the engine bay. The nearside one was a doddle, as I had remembered to chock the top suspension arm. Split the ball joints and out she came. The offside was a rather different affair, as I hadn't chocked the upper arm.

I did something I have done before, which was to use the trolley jack and a baulk of timber to raise the arm enough to slip in a block of wood. I forgot that the front of the car was now lighter by a 1/4 tonne due to the absence of engine. The car lifted off the axle stand on the off-side and promptly slipped sideways, leaving me with a straight forearm between it and the wall. I managed to wiggle the trolley jack under the car and raise it, thus escaping. Inserted axle stand and went and had several cigarettes and a beer.

I could make the excuse that I was extremely tired, but it was really stupidity. Be careful, folks.

Anyway, managed to spend the afternoon working on the car. Degreased everything, masked up around the engine bay and got two coats of primer on.





Despite my best efforts, there was a paint reaction across the top of the scuttle, so I've had to scrub that off again. I'll have another go in the morning.

Still, it's starting to look good.

Chris.

Chris, a really fascinating series of photos and I'm sure everyone here admires your skill. I just wish I had continued with my welding course. It must give you great satisfaction and you can see the results unlike most mechanical repairs.

A cautionary tale about the need for safety; glad to hear you are the car survived without damage.

Regards

David

Cheers chaps.

Yup, pleased with how it's progressing. I doubt it'll be concours, but nice and tidy is what I'm after.

As for the little jacking incident, lesson re-learned and somewhat reinforced.

Chris.

Spray cans, Keef. Three cans allowed me to do two coats, which haas worked out pretty even.

Today:





Simoniz Very Tough Paint all the way round the bottom third. Made sure that I got a good coating back under the suspension tube as well.





Stonechip over the VTP.





First blow over with top coat. Bottom half is pretty good, top half needs rather more prep before going further.

Chris.

Sun shone and the garage warmed up a bit, so I decided to go for a top coat. Unfortunately, my compressor got pinched a while back in a break-in in the old lock up, so it was out with the Apollo HVLP for this.



Even backing off the paint supply needle, the paint does get rather walloped on - you can't hang about with this fella!



Not bad - couple of areas are going to have to rubbed back before the next coat, but I have now got full coverage.

Spent the rest of the afternoon derusting various brackets and supports from the engine bay. These are now coated with rust converter and can wait for a while as it has now got very cold.





Pretty happy with that as a days work.

Chris.

Almost warm here today, so managed to make some good progress.




Two coats of paint in the engine bay has evened everything out colour-wise and I'm really rather pleased with the results. One or two runs to rub down, but apart from that I'd say the bay is finished.





Various brackets and struts primed......





........ and given two coats of the Simonix Very Tough Paint.

Good progress - it has now got very cold, so that's enough for today.

Chris.

Gold, you want gold paint

Alexander