A Riveting Time
Another fun weekend on the farm. But stupidly I forgot to take some photos of the work I was doing… so close your eyes and imagine.
Well no, don’t close your eyes until after reading the blog.
Friday evening I stopped off to see a friend who has a lovely old Aston in his garage - and found a DB9 Volante in the lane outside. DB9 far too cramped for my taste - I like the grand tourer comfort and style of the V8.
I spent most of Saturday under the parts car in the barn, as I need parts of the handbrake and brackets for ROJ. Foul job. After the Barn flooded last time there is all sorts of … well you really don’t want to know what’s under the car now. In the end I didn’t get the bracket off and will need to drill out a bolt next time I’m up.
Saturday evening usual pilgrimage to Ye Three Fishes in Turvey for a steak and stilton - cooked to perfection - bled all over the plate the moment I cut into it.
Sunday I spent riveting the bulkhead panel behind the dashboard into place and bolting on the fuel filter bracket. I also riveted the headlight cowl retaining ring back into place on the side of the car that Billy repaired for me.
The rear shocks came off again as I will replace the oil in them (EP90 is apparantly recommended) and refit those next time round.
My tool of the month is a 24 inch breaker bar from Halfords. I could have done with lt years ago for taking apart ROJ - but it works a treat on the spares car.
Only one more weekend to play before Christmas…..
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:30 pm
What does everyone do these days to reduce electrolytic corrosion between steel and aluminium? Aston’s approach for the body panels seemed to be using cloth tape (expensive gaffer/duct tape). Fair enough it seemed to work.
Good tip from Richard on the EP90 - slightly more viscous than the usual damper oil hence performance damping!
Will try to remember to pinch your breaker bar - I had my eyes on those in Halfords this weekend.