Did the following:
1. Completed final cleaning and prime coat on the suspension stop bracket
2. Finished cleaning up both front hubs-they still require some finish sanding before primer and paint. I scooped out the old wheel bearing grease-one hub looked like the bearings had been repacked later than the other hub that had a good coating of "vintage" grease..I discovered the inner bearing race on one of the spare hubs "spins" so the hub goes to the discard pile. I am glad I have a parts car on this project and the ability to choose the best parts.
3. Picked out the best front hub bearings. Removed the inner races from 2 hubs to switch bearings. The best set are "OK" but somewhat marginal but given the yearly mileage the car will be driven I have few years of service at least...
4. Final coat of red paint on the shocks
5. Chassis black sprayed on assorted parts
6. Loosened up both threaded adjusting nuts on the rear brake adjusters-applied WD 40 and let it soak. Both adjusters are now fully functional. Just need to pack them with the grease that came with my brake hardware kit and it will be all systems go rear brake wise. I need to do some research on configuring the rear brake cylinder C-clips-which clip goes where and how to install the rubber gasket? It has been too long since I disassembled and I kept no record...
I had an interesting telephone conversation last evening with an acquaintance who owns a Mazda Miata. He asked me how my project is going?? He is an artist and paints with my wife from time to time and says when he asks her about my Triumph project she just rolls her eyes and sighs!!! Her response doesn't surprise me-I find it kind of amusing to be honest...I explained to him that I believe I have completed many of the difficult tasks and now I am on the road to reassembly. He asked if I will be driving the car this summer? I wanted to say " yes" but I am reluctant to do so. I stated one of the observations I have made about the process is when I look at a finished assembly or component it is hard to realize the number of hours it took to get to the finished state??? The hours just get burned up with all the related tasks and unless you have done it yourself a person would not have a real appreciation of what happens in the background to get to that shiny clean finished state...I can see why a restoration on one of these cars would be in $30K range.. even though they are of a straight forward design...
Another relaxing day in the garage-not overly productive in my view but progress is being made..
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