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Post Winter Uncovering

Its been too long since we last did any work on the buggy, and a few people have asked about it. While we have been working on this a mate of mine has built a mk2 golf drag car, and another mate has build a street fighter bike, seeing these getting finished has really got me back in the mood to do some work on the buggy.

Buggy

Buggy

While my daily car was off to the garage to have some work done i decided to drag out the buggy and see how it was. Having been under a thin cover all Christmas i was happy to see the drain holes had done there jobs and that it looked to be in the same condition as we left it.

Firstly a quick recap on the few bits we did over christmas, we cleaned up the lights, labeled and rewired them, recieved a few parts and stuck them in the garage.

Anyway onto the few bits i actually did the other day, one of parts i ordered ages ago turned up last month and got chucked in the tool chest. The steering column has a rubber square in the linkage that was all cracked and old. 3 of the bolts came out with a lot of force and some penetrating oil, the last one required a bit of a heavy handed approach, nothing that 2 Min’s with the disk cutter couldn’t fix. Then in went the new one along with some new bolts.

Washer Bottle

Washer Bottle

I fitted the new earth strap to the rear chassis point as it arrived ages ago and got left in the draw. I also re fitted the windscreen washer pump and hoses and give it a quick test.
Then the rain started so the buggy was covered back over and left until the weekend.
Rain :(

Rain :(

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