Boot floor is linnished back and rough grit sanded with 40 grit to scratch up the metal for epoxy primer. There's a bit at the back that I'll need to flat out a bit more but apart from that I call it a win.. still need to drill the drain/jig hole to match the other side


Underneath was prepped as well but the tank will hide most of it as well as the Tetra shutz stone chip. I think that'll be a job for the team mate to do...!

Boot mat?

Really hate this predictive text garb, I write pretty quick and then come back a day later to notice half the story is in code , so I do apologize if words are not correct, it's the bot corrector thinking I'm writing in another parallel universe !

Boot carpet, MarkA yes the rally pack is a road car being restored to original as it's a 1 owner from new. A couple of odd things it was ordered with was the boot carpet if a dealer option and a tow pack with extra wobbly leafs plus the dreaded EndRust treatment that leaves holes in the door jambs but it didn't stop rust in the usual places.
Once it's nearly completed I'll put pics up on another project thread

Back to the cross member, as said the other week the steering rack has a bung cog on the pinion so after finding a pile of old rack parts from my quick rack conversion days, I sourced a good clean one and installed with no trouble. While there I installed these blue gaiters , only cause the original ones had splits


Might have found a use for the old gaiters, they fit perfect on the struts as a dust boot !!

if only those boots came in red....

They do .....

Its got be blue, its a Ford

Here's one for MarkA, but not directly !
Since I'm in the build up process of the mk1, there's a few things that are missing and I've run out of stocks. Something like indicator housings.. I have 1 that came with the car but that's it, I think I binned the other as it was smashed beyond repair. So I brought the remaining housings inside and took measurements , then jumped into the tinkercad and started creating a new housing.

This is the 5th or 6th attempt at perfecting it, thickness was to thin in places so it needed adjustments. I have removed the factory lamp holder in favour of modern twist lamp fittings.
The factory housings is on the left and my practice housings are next to it so you can see the mods for the modern holder. Also I designed the gasket to hopefully seal the unit that's been printed in tpu, a rubbery plastic similar to phone case material. Which can also be seen on the housings test pilots


Once I've got them to a stage I'm happy I'll print with petg as it's more strong and heat resilient , colour will be either orange obviously or silver, tho I will glue in chrome reflectors so it's bright when flashing. I will not be printing the lenses , I've got a few sets in storage , and for the price some shops are wanting for coloured Perspex is out of control.

you're making me browse 3D printers on marketplace marty....

Don't do it..... It's fully addictive !!!