SRowells Diablo 1.8 - Jenvey 45s & OMEX600

[Eeyore]

This coming week I decided to take Monday and Tuesday off work to get some things done with the car and to just chill out a bit. Good job I did as this morning my mum reversed her freelander into my car.




Not really the best way to start the day! The wing is completely pushed in and all the paint is scratched so not just a TCut job. The estate is sitting around nothing and has mint wings so I drove to my grans where that was kept with the intention of swapping the wings and fixing my front bumper which has been hanging off for over a year.

Unfortunately the estate had a flat battery and also flat tyres which meant I couldnt move it out of the car port in order to jack it up and remove the panels. I did try jump starting it but the battery was past that so it is now on charge and will hopefully start tomorrow.



I drilled out all the rivets on the two wings and removed some of the bolts. Also found on the passenger side wing that there was a gap in the arch liner and a beach had started to form.



I then decided whilst I couldnt fix the wing today I could finally get round to fitting my rear shocks. I hadnt done this before and I didnt have a guide but luckily it was simple enough. It was made a lot easer when i brought out the breaker bar so I had 3 foot of leverage. Anyway the AVO GTZ rear shocks are now on.



While the rear was up in the air i decided to try and stop the arches from rusting. I rolled them a few months ago but unfortunately the wheels had already scrubbed and cracked the paint before then. Last trip to halfords I got a Volkswagen Classic Red touchup pen kit for £1 on the off chance that it would be useful. Amazingly its a very good colour match and hopefully it will protect the arches a bit.




And yeh thats it for today. Lights cable tied back in for the drive home. The rear felt a lot more planted with the new shocks. Cant wait to get the new wishbones and coilovers on the front now!