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

[fatttty]

All coming together now, stunning

Cheers Koop, not long now til I can fire her up again

Alex i currently hate you... based around the fact you have the space and time to do this! keep up the good work.

Lol space.. Piers you should see how much room I have in my poxy garage.. its tighhhttt! My mrs works nights so I get a few hours in here and there. only been 4 months so far, think I've made good progress

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Haha knew you would appreciate this dude!

[Piers]

yeah your doing well mate i have 0 space and the mk1 is just sat on a drive with a cover over it. Its driving me mad as i have 90% of the bits i need

[fatttty]

I know how you feel mate, I had mine waiting to go in my dads garage for nearly 3 months. It was frustrating!

[Piers]

I know how you feel mate, I had mine waiting to go in my dads garage for nearly 3 months. It was frustrating!

yeah there is nothing worse. Its more annoying for me as i have the majority of parts i need. Just no space to do it. i dont fancy an engine conversion in the snow!

[fatttty]

Not done much on the car the last few days because of the weather. But did manage to get a coat of lacquer on my callipers, carriers and axle spacers.

My manly clothes airer...



And my Goodridge rear flexi brake lines arrived as well





Should have some updates later this weekend.

Thanks for looking, Alex

[Lupo-Joe]

That is all.

[fatttty]

That is all.

Cheers Joe, hopefully more updates today if all goes to plan

Alex

[fatttty]

UPDATE: Ok update time

Finally had everything ready for rebuilding my brakes and hubs...



Masked off the disks and painted them with a quick coat of hammerite smooth silver-



Painted hubs with new bearings-



Starting to put it all together, new disc splash guard and hub splindle fitted-





Hub fitted on-



On to the brakes, discs and calliper carrier fitted-



New Pagid brake pads-



And callipers fitted with Goodridge flexible rear brake lines-





That's all for now guys

Alex

[Piers]

phwoar!

I hope i can do something like this on my MK1 eventually...

[12yan]

Thats what im talking about

You know what i think

[Lupo-Joe]

Thats what im talking about

You know what i think

X2!

[vpolo]

loving the work dude

[fatttty]

phwoar!

I hope i can do something like this on my MK1 eventually...

Thanks Piers, looking forward to your MK1 project!

Thats what im talking about

You know what i think

Cheers Ry... saturday I WILL get her started! Pop pop bang!

X2!

Cheers Joe

loving the work dude

Thanks Matt

[Arosaproject]

Lovely work, thumbs up

[fatttty]

Lovely work, thumbs up

Cheers

Got the calliper and brakes fitted to the other side last night, sorry for the poor photo. There's about 6inches between the car and the brick wall!

Rear view of the calliper, disc brake and disc splash guard-

Went round all the new fitted bolts and torqued them.

Few more photos of the underside, only 2 more days until I get see it in natural sunlight

Thanks for looking, Alex

[Lupo-Joe]

[sj2112]

[MrSloanes]

insane this build. wish i had the knowledge and cash to do something like this!

[fatttty]

Lol cheers Joe!

Ta

insane this build. wish i had the knowledge and cash to do something like this!

Thanks Chris, its been a big job, much bigger than I'd planned. The budget went out the window way before Christmas as I kept finding parts to refurb or replace. Will be worth all the hard work in the end.

As for knowledge I learn as I go, same with the lupo i hadnt got a clue when i started, now I could take one apart pretty easily. The Puma is based on the fiesta so its not too hard. I photograph everything so i know how it all goes back together lol!

Alex

[Emz]

Somebody's been busy!! I'm glad all your hard work is paying off, looks awesome

[fatttty]

Somebody's been busy!! I'm glad all your hard work is paying off, looks awesome

Thanks Emz, been a busy boy! When you're next down she should be back on the road

[Dj Xaler]

Nice work!!

[fatttty]

Ok, SUnday was a big day, finally finished getting the braklines connected. Topped up the brake fluid and bled the brakes. Got a bit of fuel in the tank, put the wheels on and dropped the car.

Got it moved outside and gave her a quick wash, took so long the light was fading by the time I managed to get the phon out to take some photos. Only got a couple in the light and they are not the best but thought I'd put them up anyway...

Rear of the sill looking from the ful tank, fuel filter down the length of the car-

Under the boot, rear axle, fuel tank and rear beam-

All was going well, too well with the car starting fine and no warning lights I was waiting for something t ocrop up as they always do. Took the car down the street to see howe it drove. Queue a horrible grinding noise think the discs and pads need wearing in, but also think the new wheel bearing i fitted it either fitted wrong or duff as it seemed to be coming from PS rear of the car.

Oh well, a task for another day.

All in all really pleased with the finish underneath though

Alex

Edited February 4, 2013 by fatttty

[Lupo-Joe]

Need to see this car in person one day!

Keep it up.

Joe

[scotty_82]

Looking at this makes me miss mine