Engine Bay Tidy

'Tother day I decided to have a look how hard it might be to clean up my engine bay. Not easy with the engine still there, but I am going to have a go. 

I started off with a rag and some water and found the original Persian Aqua colour! It looks much better clean.

But, I spy a hole in the inner fitch panel. Yikes!

Rust on a fitch panel on a TR7?

Boot Lock

I have a boot lock that was liberated afore the death of MNX500V. 

It has a key too, which is why I want to change the one on the Beast. 

How the chuff to you get at it?

Crunchy Gearbox

Hopefully this little lot will sort out the crunchy gearbox problem ...

Driver's Window

I have eventually done it! It's been buggered since I bought it. Took nearly 2 hours as my sausages are too big and it's stupidly designed. Mr Haynes was his usual useless self. 

From the finished picture, you might notice I have busted a pin off the interior light thing when reinstalling the trim. The cost these things are, it'll be like that for a while.

Here we go ...

Finished, not that you can see from this picture

Rust Cure & Repainting ii

Here is what we did a few weeks ago. Bit of over spray but no more rust. I can't get it to polish out but no more rust. The paint that Halfords mixed does not match but no more rust.

The paint tin I had with the car suggested that the paint used on the respray was HFF. It is the right colour but HFF isn't a metallic paint. 

I'll try a metallic green some time ...

Gearbox

3 gears left ...

I now have the gears, first, third and fifth. Second and fourth are bypassed as much as possible due to the crunching. I really need to change the oil ...

Sunshine! Finally!

Covers off, here we go...