Q42 CPF - Progress

[Dave Price]

I thought it was time I logged the work to returning my Phaeton to the road

2011 - Car bought.  Not having been laid up for many year the car was going to need some restoration to get it back on the road.

2012 - Spent time wondering about changing from Pinto power.  Bought various V6 engine, Then sold the same many V6 engines.

2012 - Moved house.  Phaeton went into storage at a caravan storage yard for a few months

2012 - Phaeton relocated to our new double garage

2013 Summer - Front suspension fully rebuilt

- New poly bushes

- New wheel bearings

- New discs

- New dampers

- All new bolts

- Everything painted

2014 Engine cleaned up and back in

- Engine serviced

- Engine runs

- Radiator fitted

2015 Gearbox assessed

- Decided to upgrade to 6 speed

- Rear lights fitted

2016 Gearbox

- 6 speed trial fitted.  Work needed to clutch release - still to be done

2016 Rear axle

- Atlas axle, cleaned, oil changed and brackets welded.

- Springs re-bushed and painted

- Axle trial fitted

- Offside rear brakes rebuilt

2016

- Chassis painted

Current work for the remainder of 2016

- Finish rear brake rebuild

- Axle fitted and tightened

- Rear dampers fitted

- Gearbox fitted

- Alloy wheels painted and fitted

- Fuel tank

- Dash and gauges

- Expansion tank and cooling pipes

- Steering column

Work for 2017

- New propshaft

- Wiring loom

- Brake pipes

- Pedal box

- Bodywork repairs

- Wipes

- Front lights

Could 2017 be the completion?

[Dave Price]

The wheels are fitted with Jag wheel nuts that seem strange.  They feel like the chrome covers are loose.

[Dave Price]

Wheel progress.  It may seem mad to be painting items when I still have a huge amount of mechanical work to complete.  However, my logic is that I may as well paint while the weather is god.  Front wheel fitted

[Dave Price]

Tiny progress. Got some Dutton stickers for the wheel centres. Dutton in silver text should look good on the black gloss wheels

[Brian (up north) Morris]

nice i like :-)

[Dave Price]

Wheels now painted gloss black

[Dave Price]

Daryl - This week I have been working on the car before breakfast everyday.  Can't work on it in the evenings as I am on furniture painting duties.

[Dave Price]

My inspiration for a colour scheme.  I am thinking, matt graphite, matt black and a gloss black detail highlighted with yellow pinstripes

[Dave Price]

I did the list to kick myself up the backside as it illustrates my progress has been too slow, about one task per year.

James - I have no choice but to sort the dash as the car had been left out in weather, so all gauges and dash had got water inside. The column is just a case of extending it as was too tight to the dash. The bodywork needs sorting as the front wings have been cut off

[James Doulton]

Steering column: are you thinking of electric PAS from a Corsa?

Instruments, dash and bodywork could end up being big, open-ended affairs. you could leave them as something to do in the following few winters and concentrate on the mechanical bits necessary to get it on the road.

But as long as you are enjoying it and making progress, then that is good.

[Steve Kerswell]

Umm? Optimism or pessimism Dave? Glass half empty or full? You are making progress. That's one of my mantras to the tune of the Dutton waltz. Bit of a two step, one forward, one back etc. Good luck :-))