12th December 2010 - Prop-shafts and steering rods

It's been a few weeks since I've had anything to write about. Sub-zero temperatures inside the garage meant that anything more than about an hour out there and I was too cold to do anything constructive. My "indoor" project - restoring the dash - has also been on hold waiting for a couple of spare parts to arrive.
However, today I did venture outside to finish putting the prop-shafts back together. I put a couple of pictures up of how they looked when they came off Pod - here is how they look today:

Basically I stripped, wire-brushed, primed and painted each component and then regreased everything as it went back together. I fitted new Hardy-Spicer universal joints as a matter of course.

While I had the paint out, I also cleaned up the steering rods and fitted new Lemforder ball joints. Before:

And after:

Hopefully the spare parts for the instrument clusters will arrive this week and I'll be able to make some progress there.