Richie's Mk1 Restoration

[RichardT10829]

Well after being berated by Shaun for lack of update i thought i should best pop something up ! my project has been very slow in the making, between 2009 and 2011 i have had many personal hurdles to leap over.... now that things have settled down i can once again focus on getting the carrier sorted..

yesterday evening and tonight has seen the first propper attention on the carrier for a long time... i have been trying to get the cam plate out and have managed to undo the 9/16th bolts just trying to get the ruddy thing to part from the axle !

whilst working inside the hull i decided i would strip everything out... i was going to leave the gear linkage unit in as it appeared to be free and working... what a job i had ! two hours to get it out, it appears it was rotted to the hull ! after some grunting and wheezing it finally gave up and released from the hull !



i will clean these up tomorrow and rebuild them

on the armour front i have gone around and countersunk all the holes that needed to be... i have also offered my new pintle mounts (ahh thankyou Ben) to the armour and drilled the plate to match the pintles... she is all ready for buttoning up.. i have to pick up a gun being borrowed from a very kind chap from www.bluebirdproject.com so Lynn i will post up pics of it as soon as i get it... i am off for ten days after next week so i hope to press on and get her buttoned up in this time....so pics / vids and updates will follow.


Cheers

Richie