Okay, I have heard some news... The ute has been jacked up, and all the rear suspension rubbers and shocks etc. replaced. The next thing to do is blow the fuel line out and get the fuel tank ready and then it is just checking the work that I have done... just to make sure it is all good before we go to register it. Then it is either the body work or get the running gear running good enough to pass.

I'm heading down on friday to look after my nephew for the weekend, and my brother said that we will work on it and get as much done as possible... So hopefully it is not long now.

I have about $1300 worth of parts to take down, they are just the polished stainless, rubber kit, bumper, scuff plates and the reconditioned wiper...

Because I know we like pics...





I'm gonna ag through the parts down with the car and find out what I can bring back and clean up/reco while the car is away... so far I can think of the rear bumperettes and passenger side windscreen wiper... There is bound to be more stuff that I can bring back.

So I should have some more pics by monday or tuesday...

Well, I got there and did a bit of work on the car... but didn't take many pics... (none that show what has been done :()

I spent about 5hrs working.. in that I got the fuel line rubber hoses undone, the fuel line blown out and hooked back up again. Half set up the emissions stuff... I left some of the emissions stuff at home :(, the carby was removed and had gasket sealer put on... and I tried to isolate any leaking etc.

The charcol canister was fitted aswell... I also sortd out some of the parts from the back... but only bought back the passenger windscreen wiper.

Okay, I got some more little things done on the car...

I have been organising emmisions stuff, so it will pass rego and look functional after rego (I'm going to put ball bearings in the tubes so it looks like it is working and nothing looks suss...)

I pulled the EGR and EFE off my parts motor... needless to say they didn't look very good, I degreased them, sanded them back a bit, etch primed and then painted. I separated the bracket from them and painted it satin black instead of aluminium.





I also removed the thermostat cover (that is capable of taking the thermal vacuum switch...) from my parts motor and painted it aluminium aswell.



I also did the passenger side windscreen wiper, the same as I did the drivers one.



The painting is not perfect, but it is tonnes better than the original parts were... Later on, I will probably rego the paint, wiring and accessories in the engine bay when I fit the reconditioned motor...