Evening all,
I hope the Coventry meet went well and you dodged the terrible weather we had here in Norfolk!
Here are some more photos. (Thanks to Panky for enlarging them, you might have to help again please!)
Once the cab was cleaned back to bare metal in the suitable places we treated the panels with a rust inhibitor.
Once the Rust inhibitor was dry it was dry rubbed down gently, blown off, wiped with a damp cloth and under coated with a zinc primer ready for painting, The rear end was just flatted back once some repairs were made.
Erica did most of the painting and here she is putting the coach paint on. It was a bugger of a job and at one point Erica reacted badly to the paint!! However once recovered we both set to and finished it off
All the painting done and the front end flatted and polished up enough to start putting the shiny bits back on.
So this is how she looked after we had built here back up. I must say that although knackered we were well chuffed with the results. We had worked solidly from February and got her painted and rebuilt for an outing on 20th April!! (no interior and it ran realy badly!)
I spent a lot of time on the mechanicals, All the breaks lines were changed, the handbrake cable needed re-routing, the gear box had a new seal fitted (still leaking!!!)
All the steering links were stripped off and the grease ways cleaned out as the grease had hardened in them.
The engine tune was all over the place and the carburettor fitted some time in '98 was an after market Weber 34ICEV, fine for Land Rovers and Skodas but totally wrong for a 1600 Rootes engine.
I had to machine out the inlet manifold from 32mm to 34mm on the carb flange and drill out idle jet as it was way too lean. The butterfly was not central and the progression jets still aren't right.
The dizzy was rebuilt as the bob weights were flapping around the timing plate earth wire was loose on its rivet causing an intermittent misfire! (that was job to find!)
Next problem was a warped manifold that required me jury rigging a belt sander and a workmate, repeated planing eventually got the flanges flat!!
Whilst I was doing this Erica rebuilt the interior to how she wanted it. Every bit was removed and either replaced or renovated and then finished with a durable paint. We wanted a fridge putting in, running water, plus a larger cupboard to put the chemical toilet in.
Erica did all the upholstery on our 1930's Singer (her modern one got wrecked by the tough fabric!!)
I in the mean time set to with the wiring (interior and main vehicle), plumbing and rebuilt the dash with some new/old gauges (Temperature gauge and Ammeter)
This is how the interior looks now.
I'll leave it there for now, but there are some more stories and photos, if you guys are interest.
Cheers,
Paul
. Any more photos you take, don't hesitate to post them on the website. 
