It feels like the latter quarter of 2018 was nothing but rain in Shropshire and with moving house and DIY the car has had little use. Aim is to make sure it gets out more this year to make the most of the club weekends.
With that in mind its time to begin on some of the maintenance thats needed. First up was a lap of town to warm the oil, before returning to the garage to drain it. This year to make things easier I lifted the whole car onto stands. This made it much easier to get underneath to the sump. Didn’t stop me getting old dirty oil all over the place though!
While the oil was draining I took off the wheels & nose as theres 2 jobs I want to do up front. Ive had a new metal grille for the nose sitting on the shelf for a while so fitting that is one of them. The second is to to repaint some of the front suspension which is showing signs of rust where the paint has been chipped. It would be much easer to strip the suspension down and paint but that would mean having to get the geometry redone which is a pain.
The plan is to do what I can with all the parts in situ and masked off. Should be fun.
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