Post 39: Boot Clean Up

30th April 2019
Post 39: Boot Clean up.


So lets look at the list, whats left?

1. Wings have to be removed with the doors to put the trim between the wings and the body
2. Boot needs trimming and washer bottle fitting
3. Need some wheels and tyres
4. Windscreen needs fitting along with the wiper motor
5. Interior trim needs installing/making
6. Seats - need to claim them back from the trimmers and fit them
7. Seat belts need fitting
8. Roof needs to be check fitted and installed
9. Doors need fitting along with the trim
10. Door jar trim and locks to be installed
11. Lights need installing and connecting
12. Bonnet equipment needs fitting
13. Boot needs fitting along with the locks
14. Badges and chrome to be fitting
15. Carpets - lets not forget them
16. Overdrive unit solenoid needs fitting
17. Tunnel panels need fitting
18. Steering wheel and switches need fitting
19. Steering and brakes needs check over and setup
20. Side screens - need fitting
21. Mirrors to the doors
22. Heater connections to be made
23. Exhaust to re-fitted
24. Bumpers and closing panel to front
25. Polishing, polishing and more polishing

It is typical of this and any restoration I guess that you start one job and end that day doing another well I thought I had installed the left side door jar trim but then found a whole catalogue of jobs that I needed to do before that! including;

1. Construct new rear wheel arch trims
2. Install rear seat pans
3. Figure out what to do with the rear seats/trim
4. Fit the new washer bottle, electrics and water piping
5. Install boot trim
6. Refit the rear bumper irons
7. Install the battery - why not

All that before I had riveted the post trim in place - oh well.  So lets start with the washer bottle.  The bottles are normally located in the passenger side parcel tray - this is ok but totally takes over any hope of using the tray for anything else than the bottle so in the boot it goes.  As the new bottle is back there and came with an electric pump it made sense to use it.  I fixed it in the boot but before it could be finalised the boot trim had to be fitted which was my first go at gluing trim to the panels I spent lots of time painting! 


As a final impact of fitting the trim then the rear bumper irons needed to go in so that the battery and trim could fit around.  So a day gone then but here is the final view - sorry forgot to take photos while doing it but I like the effect

The interior of the boot before painting

Post paint and trimming

Post paint and trimming - Washer bottle installed

Post paint and trimming - seeing the impact of a spare wheel - no boot!

Oh yes and as you can see in the image I got some wheels and tyres sorted.  I have been worrying about wheels for ages, do I buy new? repair the old or by refurbished and what tyre, tubeless or tubed?


I managed to find a place that could refurbish my wheels but it turned out I had 3 x 48 spoke and 1 x 72 spoke so that wasn't going to work and I hadn't even noticed, see. . .

Spot the odd one out!

In the end I found some wheel rims in Rugby so combined a run for spares from Ahead4Healeys with a run to Rugby Classic Motor Cars and picked me up some wheels - combined them with some Continental tyres 165x80R15s.  They look great and saved a bit of cash!

The a Rim





Fitted to Front Axle