Fatttty's Ford Racing Puma #401 | Ford content... Front running gear refurb

[fatttty]

UPDATE: Got the day to myself on Sunday so thought I'd get some hours in on the car. I'd ground all the surface rust down to just pitted metal as advised by the guys from Rustbusters. Just needed to mask up the fuel and brake lines and the outerside of the sills ready for painting.

The paint I used was Epoxy Mastic 121, I've only ever read good things about this paint and I've seen a few restoration threads that have used it. Its a 2 part mixture of 2 pac paint and an epoxy hardener. I rollered the majority of the boot floor and where the fuel tank sits.

Quite pleased with the reults though the boot floor will be redone in a few areas as I had missed some of the old underseal in a few areas. The paint has shown this up so want to get rid and redo those parts, you can see the lumpy parts in the corners in the pic below-

The epoxy paint is athrecite in colour buts its difficult to tell in the light under the car. I will be most likely be zinc priming and spraying a different colour. The spray should get in all the little gaps and give better coverage.

While the expoxy paint was curing I attacked the fuel tank, stripped all the old paint off the underside-

And made a good start on the top half of the tank (also removed the fuel sender unit and rubber seals etc)

More to come soon.

Alex

[Joti]

Good work!

This attention to detail is just mind blowing!!!

[Arosaproject]

Looking good, nice work

[fatttty]

Good work!

This attention to detail is just mind blowing!!!

Cheers Joti wait until you seen my reconditioned calipers

Looking good, nice work

Thank you

[Piers]

Mega work Alex

[Koop]

Hard to believe it's the same car, stunning.

[MrSloanes]

your work is unreal mate

[fatttty]

Mega work Alex

Hard to believe it's the same car, stunning.

your work is unreal mate

Cheers guys, means alot. Loads more to come!

[north wales loop]

is the epoxy mastic stuff like oem underseal??

[fatttty]

is the epoxy mastic stuff like oem underseal??

Yeah kind of, its a 2 pack system. Strangely it works best applied to bare steel rather than primers it actualyl bonds itself to the metal.

Its been recommeded in practical classics as well.

http://www.rust.co.uk/products/category/28117/epoxy-mastic-rust-proofing-chassis-paint/

Alex

[Tom's Lupo]

keep up the good work alex

[fatttty]

UPDATE: Got a good few hours of work done on the FRP this weekend. Last week hadn't gone well and I was a little disheartened with the whole thing. But feeling much happier now with how things are moving along

Progress with the fuel tank, I stripped the remainingo ld paint from the tank so it was just bare metal. There were a few bits of pitted surface rust on the top of the tank but this part is up against the boot floor so you can never see it. The underside is lovely and smooth so should look great when painted and fitted.

Etch primed-

Dusted-

Coat of grey hammerite stone guard for some protection-

Just got to give it the final coat of silver

The boot floor and underside was treated to two coats of etch primer (forgot to take photos) then two coats of stone guard-

Th final finish colour will be Ford Dove Grey, which is a nice light pale grey (similar to the lupo interior plastics) as far as I can tell this is a pretty close colour to the one used at the factory.

Started work on the spindles for the hubs, only done one so far. Stripped the old paint off ready for painting-

Quick coat of hammerite smooth silver, this needs touching up a little but ran out of paint grrr

And finally, got my copper pipe for my new brake lines. All I need are the new connectors which I'll pick up in the week.

Thanks for looking, Alex

[Emz]

Have you got the paint out of your hair yet?

[fatttty]

Have you got the paint out of your hair yet?

Lol yeah after about 3 showers!

[Joti]

Great work as usual Alex!

I reckon you and Lupo-Joe need to organise a "clean off" to see who is indeed the King of Cleaning

[fatttty]

Great work as usual Alex!

I reckon you and Lupo-Joe need to organise a "clean off" to see who is indeed the King of Cleaning

Lol thanks Joti, but 12yan is the king of detailing. I think Joe will agree too

Quick update; had my rear calipers back from being refurbished. Sent them off to Big Redd Brakes in Worcester. Really impressed with them, had the full works.

Fully stripped

Electro plated in Ford OEM gold (as they were from factory)

New pistons

New seals

New bleed nipples etc

Also had the carriers and slider pins done to match...

Finished the fuel tank, finished in OEM flat silver. Replaced the rubber seals and the plastic fuel line clip. Refitted the fuel send pump so its all ready to bolt back under the car once the underside is fully painted.

Top side; few bubbles from the old surface rust but ground it down to pitted metal so as good as it could be-

Underside; pleased with this, should look nice and clean for shows-

Made my copper brake lines too, will upload pics when I get chance. Loads more to come guys and gals

Alex

[Lupo-Joe]

Lol thanks Joti, but 12yan is the king of detailing. I think Joe will agree too

Joe does agree

[fatttty]

Got the final colour nailed and painted the boot floor and chassis legs over the weekend. I'd originally wanted to use Ford Dove Grey, but after a quick first coat I didn't like it so made my own pale grey colour. Its difficult to tell the colour in the photos cos of the work lights and the garage being dark. But it looks great in the light so hopefully will look nice, bright and clean.

Made my new rear brake lines from the copper tubing I'd brought a few weeks back with some help from my uncle.

Old V's New-

New stainless brake line connectors-

Started to sort through all the clips and parts I've picked up from Fords the last few months. Here's just a few that are needed to replace most of what I have removed so far lol

This week I'll be sanding the old paint off the fuel and brakelines running down the centre of the car before giving them a quick coat of paint, also need to seal and paint my rear arches. My rear axle should be back this side of Christmas so I can hopefully start piecing her back together again around January

Alex

[Piers]

mega

[fatttty]

mega

Cheers Piers

[north wales loop]

great work dude.

[fatttty]

Had a bag of shininess the other day. My rear axle, stub axle and fuel tank bolts all blasted and zinc coated for protection. Just waiting on my rear axle to come back from the powdercoaters in the new year. Then can start putting her back together again

Alex

[Koop]

mmmmmm....shiny.

[fatttty]

Cheers Koop painting one of my arches tonight. Progress will be slow over Christmas. Too much beer not enough car time lol

[12yan]

Bolts look goood Alex,

Im excited to see the rear beam back

Ryan