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What's not to like? Lovely...


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An early start today to meet up with Mike B to take collection of my rebuilt gearbox.
It all looks great so many thanks to Mike for all his help.

First job at Mike's request was to fill it with 3 litres of oil and then exercise all of the gears and shafts to give it a first lubrication.


Things are slowly falling into place!

Ready for summer?

I wouldn't like to say which summer Gary

The other achievement was eventually getting the car back on it's own wheels (well one of its own wheels and three spares I have for rollers ).

We prepared the torsion bar tubes with plenty of cavity wax, and the rear suspension went on pretty easily. I expect I will need to adjust the trailing arms at a later date. They have both been set to the same book angle but may need later tweaking.

The front suspension turned out a bit of a pain in the end.
We fitted it as a complete assembly and then found one of the last bolts holding the a-arms wouldn't take, so we took it off again to re-tap one of the fixing holes.
After it was fitted the second time, I realised that the car dolly prevented the torsion bars being fitted into the arms in situ.

So it all came off again - by the third time we fitted it all we were on a roll!

So it was now time to take the 912 out of the workshop and swap it with the rolling shell.





Installed in the workshop there are plenty of jobs to do, but where to start?

I thought I should start by giving the car it's identity back.



Not sure I am cut out as a master forgerer

AndrewSlater wrote:....Not sure I am cut out as a master forgerer

....looks pretty good to me...great progress!

Must have been a great moment to see the car back on its wheels Andrew - it's going to be a fabulous car when finished ...

Nice nice!

very cool

love the colour

Looking great

Saw your gearbox when I collected mine from Mike on Thursday - doing the same fill/exercise routine as instructed.

Finally caught up with this thread today. Great stuff, lovely colour and I was very interested to follow your engine build in particular. I'll be doing the same with my Carrera 3.0 sometime in the future.

I love these narrow bodied impact cars, and this colour against all of the black is going to look absolutely fantastic .

AndrewSlater wrote:
Not sure I am cut out as a master forgerer

Thats a lovely touch.

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

RichOB wrote:Saw your gearbox when I collected mine from Mike on Thursday - doing the same fill/exercise routine as instructed.

Exercising the gearbox is a little hard work, and there's no way of telling if you have done enough of it ( other than your arm starting to ache).
The next job on the gearbox is to re-attach the clutch release arm. At the moment I am unsure as to what the orientation of the arm to the fork should be and can't seem to find any info. Was yours removed?

Barry wrote:I love these narrow bodied impact cars, and this colour against all of the black is going to look absolutely fantastic .

Thanks Barry, not sure how much black there is going to be on my car as the original interior is tan. Must get some of the interior down from the loft and see how well it goes with the signal orange.


Despite itching to start putting things back together, the first job is to give the car some protection.



I have gone for a selection of BiltHamber Dynax products and am slowly ticking off sections from Barry's Waxoyl list.

I started with the doors and the tunnel and after 3 hours or so on Sunday and one can of S50 later they were done.
Last night I used another can to do the outer sills, A and B pillars, parcel shelf and the engine lid.

I have an inspection camera which is really helpful to 'see' how some of the box sections are formed and whether I have applied enough wax.

Does anyone know of any does and don't on the engine bay - I'm wondering if too much 'wax' is a good idea?

It's definitely smelly and messy stuff, and most of it eventually finds its way onto either you or the floor
At least I won't rust for a good few years ( and I'm hoping the car won't neither ).

Andrew

A link to pdfs of the workshop Manuals was recently posted in general chat and volume 3 around p70 sets out orientation/measurements for the clutch release lever for different generations

Good luck looking good!!

Looking really great, now the fun part putting it all back together!

RichOB wrote:Andrew

A link to pdfs of the workshop Manuals was recently posted in general chat and volume 3 around p70 sets out orientation/measurements for the clutch release lever for different generations
Good luck looking good!!

Thanks for the info Richard, I had missed that in the general chat section. That's just the info I need.
I didn't have access to the workshop manuals previously so that should make a real difference to the rebuild.

Mike wrote:Looking really great, now the fun part putting it all back together!

Absolutely the best part - makes up for all those months of cleaning all those rusty/oily bits.
Now it's a case of working out what is missing