Painting and undersealing

Oh joy, my favourite job! Painting the underside of the car and undersealing it, I hate it!

Thankfully it wasn't too bad with two of us working on it, and now the underside is nice and black. We used the hammerite brushable underseal "with added waxoyl" to give it a bit of protection.

It seemed a shame to underseal over the nice new paint, but since this car is going to be used I think it's worth it.

Trial fitting the rear subframe

After welding in the new OS rear subframe mount last week I was finally ready to trial fit the subframe.

I was quite aprehensive about this, because even though I'd taken lots of measurements and made a jig, there was no 100% guarantee that things would line up given the amount of metal that had been replaced.

We jacked the subframe into position and after much levering and cursing, it all went in no problem!

The holes all line up perfectly thankfully.



Instead of re-using the old trunnions, we also fitted billet alloy trunnions from www.dsnclassics.co.uk.