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After having my Taimar for about 7 years now finally decided to start working on it. Original dreams of a nut an bolt resto have been shelved as realistically I dont have time (self building a house and have been for 5 years!). Going to concentrate on getting it back on the road quickly (ish) in good solid condition, perfection will need to wait.
Anyway the car was last on the road in 1998 and apart from shot paint work and a nice rash of microbubbles is not looking too bad. Jacked it up and put it on highlift axle stands and the chassis does not look to bad, out riggers are rusty but appear un holed and solid (hammer tested). So have taken off the bonnet (bonnet frame rusted/broken, but have a spare), removed rad and will remove inner wings and wire brush chassis,degrease, rust converter (2 coats aquasteel) and then epoxy mastic it battle ship grey, before over painting with black chassis paint. Thinking being any paint chips will show. Will probably spray with black chassis wax as well.
I remember the seller tellin me the engine was a bit tired, but has only done 80,000 & has has been well maintained so hoping I can get away with a good top end rebuild, same engine as my old scimitar so been there before, although engine access on TVR is significantly better. I turned it over off a jumpstart when I first got it and engine turned freely, What I didnt notice was one of the pipes to the electic fuel pump was perished so when I got out there was a large pool of petrol under the car!
Had my radiator recored, not cheap at 160 quid but now as good as new. Did wondered if I could have got a new one for that?
A slight issue is I broke my thumb (shipping container door and high winds) xmas eve so am one handed just now for a while. The offending shipping container (lined) being where I was planning on doing the chassis (using a creeper) - oh yes this is proper old skool stuff. Not going to be much progress for next 4 weeks due to being one handed.
Great to get the A/F spanners out again and start fighting with seized nuts - have missed it!
Will attempt to keep this thread updated and add some photos.
Regards
Rob
Anyway the car was last on the road in 1998 and apart from shot paint work and a nice rash of microbubbles is not looking too bad. Jacked it up and put it on highlift axle stands and the chassis does not look to bad, out riggers are rusty but appear un holed and solid (hammer tested). So have taken off the bonnet (bonnet frame rusted/broken, but have a spare), removed rad and will remove inner wings and wire brush chassis,degrease, rust converter (2 coats aquasteel) and then epoxy mastic it battle ship grey, before over painting with black chassis paint. Thinking being any paint chips will show. Will probably spray with black chassis wax as well.
I remember the seller tellin me the engine was a bit tired, but has only done 80,000 & has has been well maintained so hoping I can get away with a good top end rebuild, same engine as my old scimitar so been there before, although engine access on TVR is significantly better. I turned it over off a jumpstart when I first got it and engine turned freely, What I didnt notice was one of the pipes to the electic fuel pump was perished so when I got out there was a large pool of petrol under the car!
Had my radiator recored, not cheap at 160 quid but now as good as new. Did wondered if I could have got a new one for that?
A slight issue is I broke my thumb (shipping container door and high winds) xmas eve so am one handed just now for a while. The offending shipping container (lined) being where I was planning on doing the chassis (using a creeper) - oh yes this is proper old skool stuff. Not going to be much progress for next 4 weeks due to being one handed.
Great to get the A/F spanners out again and start fighting with seized nuts - have missed it!
Will attempt to keep this thread updated and add some photos.
Regards
Rob
Hi Rob
Good luck with your project, My learnings is that it's most easy if you chop the projects into step's. And focus on steps that will get you the MOT, and postpone all othe stuff to "a later day". That worked for me, and some of the initial idea's is now trashed and replaced withe other idea's, so I happy I didn't get too far in the wrong direction.
Br MAds
Good luck with your project, My learnings is that it's most easy if you chop the projects into step's. And focus on steps that will get you the MOT, and postpone all othe stuff to "a later day". That worked for me, and some of the initial idea's is now trashed and replaced withe other idea's, so I happy I didn't get too far in the wrong direction.
Br MAds
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