JohnnyB's 'lude

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:33 am

Wahey, that's excellent news looking forward to seeing it back on the road and fair play to your Mrs

I finally got your old twinloop fitted earlier on this year btw

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:42 am

Hey Johnny! Glad to have you back!

Gearbox and rear calipers aside, I reckon you shouldn't have much trouble firing her back into life. I've heard of H22's that have been stood for 3 years plus come alive on the first turn of the key, so fingers crossed for you

EDIT: Oh yeah, happy marriage

CrunchyAdams82 · Post by **CrunchyAdams82** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:51 am

Congrats on your marriage mate..and marrying the right woman!

Good luck getting it running again. Shouldn't take much to get her back on the road.

Looking forward to it. Loving Pirates Black.

Confused · Post by **Confused** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:55 am

Congrats on the marriage, will be nice to see the Pirate Lude back on the road again!

handsomedanc · Post by **handsomedanc** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:15 pm

Best of luck with the old girl mate and glad to see she wants you to fix the lude up too.pmsl
Seriously though congrats on the marriage and fingers crossed all goes well with the lude revival!

Supercharged 無限MUGEN BB1 Profile · Post by **nucleustylzlude** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 1:11 pm

Hey bud!

Congrats on the wedding front. Good luck getting her back on the road. You know where we all are for advice and parts.

Cheers,

Rob

Post by **Merlin** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 2:40 pm

Congrats. Apart from the brakes I'm sure the car will be fine after sitting for a while.

Post by **Drax** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:16 pm

great to see this very clean, great looking lude being worked on again!

JohnnyB · Post by **JohnnyB** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:05 am

Yet another large gap in my updates but...

The gearbox is back in

She's only been on axle stands for 30 months

Double oops was when I realised after lifting the box into the engine bay that I'd forgotten to put the thrust bearing back in, but that was easily solved in 15 minutes of swearing.

New flywheel fitted

Clutch refitted (after shearing off a brand new Honda bolt - which they made me pay to replace even after I'd told them I was tightening with a torque wrench - bastards!)

Managed to find the gearbox under a pile of rubbish in the garage! Little bit dirty

Same gearbox after a few hours with some degreaser and the wife's steam cleaner - might need to buy her a new one, or at least rent another to steam clean the steam cleaner haha

Decided that since I'm not getting younger I was going to use the engine crane to lift it back in this time round!! If anyone needs to borrow an engine crane it's sitting in my garage

Gearbox back in and starter motor refitted. Happy days!

So, next step - I've just picked up 2 new drive shaft oil seals, they'll go in over the weekend along with drive shafts and rebuilt CV joints. Although I haven't rebuilt the CV joints yet, and I'm still to recondition the suspension parts. Busy weekend for JB!

More worrying is I've got rust starting in a lot of places. Seriously, she's not looking healthy. I need to get her running again ASAP so I can decide whether the rust is worth treating - I'm at the point now that if she doesn't fire up after a few weekends of tinkering (I'm not expecting miracles!) she may be off to the big scrapheap in the sky

Fingers crossed for the piratelude

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:13 am

Good on you for the recent progress.

You know the rust is worth sorting

Look forward to seeing it running again!

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