Weekend 30/01/2011

Following the removal of the fuel tank on Saturday evening, I took some photos of the fuel tank which in the light of day looks like it could be better!!! I'm not sure whether I can continue using this one by this one repaired? I'm sure those more knowledgable on this than myself will let me know!

It does have a lot of corrosion on the edges and parts of the seam are flaking off! I have taken a number of shots from different viewpoints.

It doesn't look great, but I will make some enquiries as to whether it is still serviceable or not!

In the light of day I thought I'd grab a piccy of the car up on the stands, (I know the right hand one looks a little skew wiff but it was safe as we shook the car vigourously and nothing moved or shifted).

Here is a picture of the alcove where the fuel tank normally sits, it's quite surprising as to how small this is!

Alcove shot, note the fuel line hose to the bottom left hand corner of the shot, I disconnected this after the shot was taken and stored the hose with the rest of useful hoses I have gathered from the car.

 

Another shot above of the rear part of the car the differential, the exhaust boxes and a lot of blue chassis rails are visible here, the exhausts looking the worst parts!! I have fingers crossed about the chassis sections I can't see yet, as water ran out of the top rail where the roll bar was connected to!

At this point I turned my attention to the pedal boxes, as there were a few chassis/body retaining bolts that had to be removed (4/5 in each, 3 of which I just couldn't remove as I couldn't get my arm in far enough to get any decent purchase on the bolt, the screwdriver and electric screwdriver kept jumping out of the top of the bolt and I didn't want to ruin the head of the bolt (or the surrounding fibreglass), there are enough holes in the fibreglass to repair already!

Top right behind the accelerator pedal (above), and the three bolts along the floor in the picture (below) are the retaining bolts holding this footwell part of the body shell to the chassis. This is another area that needs to be taken out of the car before chassis removal, as It may stop me getting the body off.

 

This does look pretty nasty in here! once I can get in, I will get everything cleaned out thoroughly.

The last rear cabling loom (just before I seperated the connector plug). all the rear lights, fuel level sender, boot lid lights all wire through this loom.

That about concluded what I could do this weekend, so I locked up again for 'goodness knows how long' this time! More soon......