Another productive day. Finished off a couple of locators for the bonnet to make the shut lines neater, these entailed bonding two ally blocks to the inner side of the bonnet and drilling them out, into these two spikes locate that are screwed into the top of the pods. These seem to work but need a little fine tuning. Next on the agenda was more filling for the doors and then after a couple of hours lots of sanding, again there is more to do on these and so will continue this next week end. Next came fitting the passenger seat, easy. The big job for the day was fitting the windscreen. This went surprisingly well and even the fitting of the rubber went in well, the dash top can be put in with a bit of persuasion so all looks good. Finally fitted the water jets for the screen wash, again an easy job entailing just drilling two holes and putting the through (there were off a Lada !). Final job of the day was to give it a polish and see what needs sorting out on the body work.
Taken a day off work to try and make some headway into the list of odd jobs than need finishing off. So to start I cleaned up the windscreen and surround and painted this with primer, not that satisfied but it will do. Next I painted the underside of the bonnet with black hammerite, looks a lot better, also tidied up the wiring with tie wraps and insulating tape and then painted the steering column that had a few scrapes on it. I then started on the interior, put some holes in the dash to fix the top to the front, painted the seat floors with hammerite again these had got a bit scratched and then cleaned down all of the surfaces. Next I put in the boot carpet and then cut the holes for gearstick and the handbrake in the tunnel top cover, I then fitted the drives side carpet, seat and seat belts, finally I fitted the passenger side carpets. The only trouble I had today was the tunnel cover has a hole for the handbrake in the side and I have put it inside the tunnel and I messed up the screen mastick so have had to order some more, this will be here on Monday. A generally productive day. List of things to do are finish off filling the doors and painting the inners, fit the windscreen and fill the back of the frame/paint it, fit the passenger seat and seatbelts, finish off the carpet under the dash, then paint up all of the odd brackets I have made over the time, enlarge the cutouts to stop the wheels rubbing on the side pods, then there is the minor body work blemishes to sort out and we are there. I have Monday off and so should get the back broken of these also.
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