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The next job was to go refurb/ replace the front brakes. These probably hadn't been been used for the last 20 years. They were ceased and the brake fluid channels were blocked solid. The only for me was to split the brake caliper. Cleaned, sprayed, new seals etc looking through my photos, I don't have one of them installed in the car

Update end of November: Interior trim So the suspension issue has been thrown into the "cant be bothered fixing this now" basket, and I wanted to tackle some interior bits, because all the boxes have been sitting at home for atleast 6 months gathering dust. I was putting this off as I had hoped i could go and source some second hand parts off a few wrecked cars from Zac, and save myself this trouble of having to try and repair what I had, but alas having a newborn and wife recovering from surgery really hampered any effort to try and go get the parts, I simply had no time to go at the drop of a hat so I gave up. So it was time to fix the junk I already had. Mind you... this is the first time i have ever plastic welded, or used fibre glass. So this is what we started with: I stripped the Vinyl off the rear quarter trims to find the plastic absolutely destroyed. broken in multiple places, huge cracks all through it, i would have said it was not salvageable... But when you have no other choice, you can perform miricles! . In that first photo i have repaired the cracks with a plastic welding kit, it came with wire mesh re-enforcement, which i melted into the cracks and into the piece, then plastic soldered over the top. This next photo you can see the hardest repair to do, where the hinge for the rear quarter window sits. I plastic welded the centre hole where the hinge goes, then fibre glassed over it and outwards to re make the edge lip In the next photo i have used fibreglass to remake a corner edge broken off: This is looking at the hinge area from the front side once the fibre glass and plastic weld has dried. You can clearly see the original damaged panel. Well i had to now use the plastic welder to melt this busted part back down into my newly repaired area and fuse it all together: Now i could sand it all down flat: Now i could take the vinyl trim and re trim the panel in black. I had issues in the deep pocket where the seatbelt mount fits into. I used a heat gun but still could not get the vinyl to stretch down enough to the pocket. So i had to make relief cuts into it: I bought some ABS sheet, cut it to match the shape, heated it with a heatgun until it was as soft as wet spaghetti then pushed it and formed it onto the pocket. it came out ok i think, also fitted some speaker covers as new speakers are going in too. Both sides are done, as is the top rear trim piece that holds the interior light, i had to re make that panel out of Masonite. Just need to re wrap the factory harness, and maybe re pin it, or at least clean up all the terminals, then it can all go back together! Video coming..... when I can get away from the newborn for more than 10 minutes LOL... So... soon, but i wouldn't hold my breath haha! Thanks for the information, that was a good little video. The rear drums were already dragging on the shoes when I slipped them on, so I didn't bother adjusting them from the back. Rudi.

Getting the needles out can be a pita. I was gonna check you removed the grub screw. Basically what's holding it in is a bunch of carbon build up (probably from the PCV being fed into the intake). You could try soak it in kerosene or use lots of carb cleaner on it and let it sit for a while. I butchered my needles getting them out (with pliers) because I ran out of patience. I kind of regret doing that too! Z-Therapy will give you new needles but the original L24 sized ones are hard to find now and generally the Z-therapy ones are SM needles which are a bit rich..from what I've seen. You won't regret getting Z-therapy rebuilds. I had a bunch (4 sets) done a while ago. I think I sold 2 sets and kept 2. Can get a little expensive.

As you all know I’ve never done any of this before so I’m relying on you wise sages to correct my mistakes and give your worldly advice... I was thinking about doing one SU at a time just to have one to reference off when rebuilding but I’ve taken a lot of photos and feel confident I can put them back together using those. Let me know your thoughts. Planning to: -order a Ztherapy rebuild kit -vapour blast intake manifold, bodies and dome -replate hardware -new hoses let me know if I’ve missed anything critical few photos of dismantle on front SU

Then we worked on refurbing the rear brakes From this.. To this..

It has been a while since I have updated this thread. Since August I have made good progress to to try and meet my goal of having her on the road by Christmas. There was a massive delay on getting some key parts from america due to some very ordinary customer service. One of the jobs we tackled was to install the new shocks (Koni Yellows) and king springs. These coil spring clamps worked a treat. The install went relatively smoothly.