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| Shiny seat! |
Nic took delivery of the Gliptone leather cleaning kit from www.liquidleather.com and we took both seats out into the glorious sunshine on Saturday. As you can see from the photo, the cleaner has done a really good job! There are lots of other interior jobs to do, but this is a really good start. While the seats are out, we'll refurbish the sliding mechanisms, which have become a bit rusty which explains why it wasn't possible to adjust the seats while they were in the car.
We've also now had the refurbished steering rack from LotusBits along with the repaired bonnet and the relevant fixing brackets. This took a couple of attempts though as I noticed that we had only right hand brackets and no left hand ones! The brackets also need fixing plates and some shims - we could get the original Lotus parts but it may be better to visit Stable Fabrication (who I know well) and get some stainless steel parts made up. Then we'll be ready to fit the bonnet and headlamps and make sure it all goes together before the respray operation. Having discussed this further, we're probably going to need to spray the panels adjacent to the bonnet to otherwise we could end up with a noticeable colour mismatch. Will be a bit more expensive but probably worth it in the long run.
So here's a picture of the nice shiny refurbished steering rack with new track rod ends ready for re-assembly. Sounds simple, but probably even more fiddly than getting it off in the first place!
We've also now had the refurbished steering rack from LotusBits along with the repaired bonnet and the relevant fixing brackets. This took a couple of attempts though as I noticed that we had only right hand brackets and no left hand ones! The brackets also need fixing plates and some shims - we could get the original Lotus parts but it may be better to visit Stable Fabrication (who I know well) and get some stainless steel parts made up. Then we'll be ready to fit the bonnet and headlamps and make sure it all goes together before the respray operation. Having discussed this further, we're probably going to need to spray the panels adjacent to the bonnet to otherwise we could end up with a noticeable colour mismatch. Will be a bit more expensive but probably worth it in the long run.
So here's a picture of the nice shiny refurbished steering rack with new track rod ends ready for re-assembly. Sounds simple, but probably even more fiddly than getting it off in the first place!
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| Shiny Steering Rack! |
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