Sunday, September 29, 2013

Getting ready for the trunk floor

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Back into welding ! Prepping the surroundings before the new trunk floor can be installed. Mainly consisting of : - removing parts ...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Spitfire rear leaf spring spacer

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So... It's been a while ! Work, sport, other and other priorities took over the project for a few weeks but it's not bad. Nothing...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

Front floors finished !

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Fitted the one i built this week. Then since i had made a passenger one that looked much better than my first attempt i cut it out and put i...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Spitfire floor panel forming issues - continued

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Yesterday's post probably didn't make much sense, half the text got lost in the internet maze, so here it is off my chest : -  The...
Sunday, July 7, 2013

Spitfire floor panel forming issues

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See what i am trying to do here ? Doing my own floor panel using the cheese look alike old one.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Your typical tuesday night

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Resto rule #10 : if it comes from the parts car it will but rusted solid
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Driver side foot well

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This weekend i attaqued where the driver puts his feet and extracted these 4 rusty puzzle pieces. Now on to reproducing them out of fres...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

I see wheels !

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Historical moment the chassis has wheels ! Will help free space in the garage while i work on all the other stuff...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Spitfire rear bearings replacement

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I remember a long time ago, my british friend Craig had told me that replacing the rear bearings on the spitfire was a bit more involved th...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Spitire Universal Joint

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Changed one of the UJ. Easy with the press. The grease nipple seemed in the way so i cut and sliced a small screw to put in place. Not...
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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Did I say I love electrolysis rust removal ?

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Let it run all night and these parts were badly rusted. See the result by yourself...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Spitfire rear spring like new

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Should add a before/after picture really... Cleaned and repainted each leaves and used plastic buttons (from the ebay guy) instead of the r...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

The differential is in !

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I have to start with the photo of the spitfire differential landing into position. That felt good ! Trouble started when I op...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Triumph spitfire differential bushings

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That crazy differential has really taken me a lot of time. Of course now I have done I could probably do  all of it in a few hours, but whe...
Friday, May 3, 2013

Triumph spitfire differential rear oil seal and bearings replacement

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I ordered new side seals for the differential thinking "yeah I'll just slap those on while I am there". Found bits on the we...
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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Why you should grease the spitfire differential bolt

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Needed to take the differential off from the parts car because the casing is broken on the one I have. After much heavy banging, days of...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Spitfire battery box replacement

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It's one of these jobs once complete you think eh wasn't that bad but it was a pain. The only difficult part is to remove the old ba...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Spitfire steering rack

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 Probably one of the most messy jobs so far. Fully dismantled the steering rack, cleaned everything and re-greased. There was nothing that l...