She lives! She lives!

[CrashCourse]

After twenty two months off the road :ohmy: my Zed is once more on the road :clap::clap:

 

I took it off the road in July 2009, as it was going to fail the MOT on excess corrosion - holes in the floor and rotten sills :no:

 

I've had to open up the sills on both sides (front to rear), cut out the rust (outer and inner sills) plus some of the floor and fabricate/buy new panels. The rear arches, both inner and outer, needed replaced.

The area around the fuel filler was completely shot, so that all needed cut out and replaced. The rear lower quarters were also rotten and required replacing and then a couple of small holes in the front inner wing and the rear panel - phew!

 

After that was done......I found out that the front calipers had seized :crying:

New seals from Bigg Red, braided hoses from DTA and a new metal brake pipe later - MOT time.

Failed.....the brake master cylinder packed in :cursing:

A replacement master cylinder from Zerocooldel's breaker :bow: then a retest :sweatdrop: .................Passed :dance::dance:

 

She looks a wee bit rough just now but that's the next project.

 

I wouldn't have been able to do all of this without help from Ossian, he gave me a loan of his MIG welding outfit and his help, advice and encouragement kept me going when I was at my wit's end - Thank You Robert.

Thanks also to Berrica, for regassing me and ensuring that work went on!

 

Not all Zeds have to be scrapped when the tinworm strikes, I'm lucky, in that I had a garage, the equipment, the time, the friends and the determination to keep the car on the road.

 

Photos to follow - hopefully.

 

Apologies for the long post - Andy

[hellraiser]

well done and congrats on getting the lady road worthy again, its nice to actually hear them being fixed rather then broken. :clap::thumbup::pint:

[CrashCourse]

[CrashCourse]

 

 

[Ossian]

Bet your chuffed as *@@@ now :), well done bud. A lot of work but well worth it.

[vodkashots]

doesn't look ruff matey, god i need to learn to weld lol, that car looks fantastic matey.

[CrashCourse]

Chuffed tae the gutties :clap::clap:

 

S'pose you'll want the MIG back now :tt2:

[Onslow]

Well done :clap::clap::clap:

[vodkashots]

why are all the decent welders on this site, so far away :crying:

[CrashCourse]

doesn't look ruff matey, god i need to learn to weld lol, that car looks fantastic matey.

 

Thanks for the compliment :bow:

 

Close up you can see the various chips, scrapes dents etc.

 

The back quarters are done in Halfords black gloss, the rest of the car has lovely purple/black metallic finish - but it'll do for now :biggrin:

[CrashCourse]

 

 

[hellraiser]

i remember that car was neil moris's and he sprayed it the purply black,, wondered where that went :)

[vodkashots]

 

 

 

matey, they are 20 year old cars, if they didnt have some sort of mark from road use in that time, then its either just been fully resprayed or sat in a garage all its life lol

 

looks a good job though. at least you wont have to worry about the rust worm any time soon.

[zerocooldel]

looking great mate. well done on getting it all done seemed like forever since i had seen you before you came to get the bmc. look forward to seeing you at some meets our zed numbers are growing 10 at knockhill and that was without you, andy and robert. good times

[CrashCourse]

Yep, that's the one, I bought it with a wee bit of rust :blush:

 

 

 

[m_reed]

well done mate, you have done really well:-)

 

Mark

[Daffy]

Nice one, you should be proud of yourself. Looks luvverly.

[CrashCourse]

Many thanks guys :biggrin:

 

Yes, a lot of hard work and swearing went into it but all that was history

once I took her out for a run at the weekend :dance::dance:

[Gaz 300]

Well done fella its back on the road again and thats the main thing:thumbup1:

[davidlyall258]

Well done Andy. you can bring it to the next KFC meet

[Berrica]

Well done Andy it looks great and will look even better when you get the paint sorted, really pleased you finnally got it finnished!

[CrashCourse]

Well done Andy. you can bring it to the next KFC meet

 

Thanks David, the next meet can't come soon enough - lol

 

Well done Andy it looks great and will look even better when you get the paint sorted, really pleased you finnally got it finnished!

 

Cheers Andy, Finished.............I don't think that they're ever really finished - it's not in their nature, there's always going to be something to do :hammer: :D

[bigh]

Well done, looks like you have put in plenty of time/effort in keeping the car on the road.

 

Now enjoy driving it :clap::clap:

[Big Rod]

Hey Crashcourse. Nice job on the car!

 

Whereabout in Dunfermline you at? I'm in Newmills.

[CrashCourse]

Sunny Pitcorthie :yes:

 

We'll need to have a mini meet :hyper: