My Ocianic Blue Ur restoration

[4WDrifter]

I made up a new splash guard from tractor inner tube. Strange there is only one on the nearside on the Ur.




Tie rods were fitted. These failed quality control last week so have been stripped and painted again. There were one or two rust spots coming through.


And then drive shafts. All new cv joints.




And I got this from Rob on the forum. Very impressive copy of the original.


I'm waiting for my new boost hoses which are coming from Germany. I got stung this time with import duty. Cry.
They are in the Swansea Parcel Force depot for the weekend sadly.



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Did the car have splash guards fitted originally?
I can appreciate what they’re designed to do but have most uRs lost them through time?
What material was originally used for them?

[Tractor Dave]

They were only fitted on one side. The original material was a type of rubber sheet.

[4WDrifter]

They were only fitted on one side. The original material was a type of rubber sheet.

Thanks. The reason I’m interested is that I knew that something like that or a wheel arch liner would contain a lot of the spray and rubbish thrown up from the road in the arch rather than it finding its way into the engine bay. I’m guessing it was on the near side as there’s more sh*te to be thrown up from the kerb side. Both sides, if I’m making them myself, probably won’t do any harm.

[Tractor Dave]

Yes, good plan but you will have to drill holes for the other side.

[4WDrifter]

Are these the holes I use on the front side of the passenger side?

[Tractor Dave]

Upper yes, lower no. You can see where the button clips are in my pic above.

[4WDrifter]

Great I’ll get measuring this incoming week