A little something to keep me busy

[Tractor Dave]

Thanks guys. It's nice to have some feedback and encouragement. I'm going to need it when I start on the rear. Looks like it's been sitting with the Titanic for a year or two

[K Simmonds]

Using the wire wheel in the arches is a horrid job, even with a mask and decent eye protection you get filthy, good job done though.

[Monkeymagic]

Fair play Dave, I love the enthusiasm

[sidrick]

Excellent graft!

[Tractor Dave]

That’s a nice stash of oil you have there! It’s gone rather expensive.

Every bolt, nut and screw is seized with rust! All the fittings in the wheel arches had to be cut or drilled out.
The tie rods came apart (eventually)


And got cleaned and painted.

Inside the arches are a little rusty.


So I got busy with the wire wheel. This is my least favourite job.


And after Bilt rust converter, a coat of Bilt zinc.


The top mount brackets also got de rusted and painted.


And another delivery from Merlin arrived. Aroquip hose and fittings for the oil cooler.



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[Vorsprung durch Technik]

Good choice, it's what i put in mine and makes a difference. This is the diff oil i used at the same time; great progress on the car.

[Tractor Dave]

I didn’t get a lot done today as my lawn mower died.
But I did fill the gearbox with lovely new oil. This was recommended a few years ago by Mike in Scotland. Lovely chap he was and greatly missed.



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[K Simmonds]

I always like it once the box goes back in, then on it mounts and the jack removed... Gives one loads more space to start with, nice to see someone do a proper job and replace all renewable components, no one should need to get in there again for a very long time.

Nice money saver with the tractor paint, hell the car's never going to be a concourse example so why not, once the plastic arch liners go back in you won't be able to see much of it anyway.

Making the brake pipes will keep you busy for a while but at least it's not heavy work, I have a few good spare front ABS sensors should you need one.

[Tractor Dave]

Cheers Kit. I have a few bits to do front end before I move to the rear. I need to clean and 're paint the inner wheel arches and make up new brake pipes. That's the job for today.
I think I can save some money here as Ford blue tractor paint is really cheap compared to mixed Nogaro blue and is close enough for under the liners.

[K Simmonds]

That's all looking excellent Dave, I like the oil cooler mounting solution, looks nice and robust.

I guess you may have to adapt the air guide a little to make it fit but it'll be much better than that crusty old thing you rightly binned.

I'm going to order one of those seal picks myself as it's a tool I lack and for the sake of a tenner I bet it makes extracting old seals a dam sight quicker and easier than fannying about with bent screwdrivers which is how I normally tackle them.

Nice to see the box back in, things should come together pretty quickly now your at this stage.

[Tractor Dave]

Pilot bearing turned up and fitted.


Flywheel re fitted with new bolts and then with my friends help, gearbox is back in.





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[Tractor Dave]

The oil cooler was in a very poor state and probably doing nothing. Replacements are nla. It’s not as easy as on the S2. You can’t move the oil cooler up as the S6 has a big radiator in the way. Space is limited in the original position and this looks simple but took lots of head scratching to put together.


I was able to re use the mount with a few alterations.


And managed to squeeze a 10 row cooler in the space. I had to move the horns further in and up with a custom bracket. The replacement is slightly bigger than the original.






I need to have a think as to how I will re fit the air guide.


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[Nuvo]

Perfect.

[Tractor Dave]

https://ffx.co.uk/product/Get/Sealey-Ak7000-5024209350617-Seal-Puller

[Tractor Dave]

I got it from FFX. It's a Sealy seal puller.