I'm glad you can purchase direct from Nice and know every detail of what you are getting
 
Rather than to have to rely on some outlets assurance that ""ýeah, they'll fit an Escort,. Right, totally like Mk1 and Mk2, front and rear as well"
 
 

 With the rear wheel studs on the way decided to clean up the fronts ahead of putting them back in, also got started on the h/brake brackets. I didn't have enough material to make two brackets but here is the finished item on the drivers side.


 
The sway bar mount came in real handy . Now it looks like that was always supposed to be there and less questions may get asked about the lack of the rear sway bar now .

Here are some side by sides of the front wheel studs, I've yet to do the second four, I'll get to that tomorrow.


 
 

 
I've also hunted out the brake lines and will start cleaning them up, I almost have all the bits together minus the booster and rear proportioning valve to start putting the brake lines back on. 

Yeah I put an "L" shape on the back of the bracket so it would contact the rail and bite in a little to stop movement but a fastener or dowel would work better.

I want to re-use most of the engine bay brake lines if they come up nice after a clean and some plating, I will remake new front hard line to the calipers though. I am going to modify the front to rear brake line so that it will come straight out of a proportioning valve in the engine bay and heads down to the diff. Then I am going to make a small hard line to go from the brake pressure warning valve to the proportioning valve. 
 
My plan for the diff is to have hard lines running from a T piece on top of the diff to the tramp rod brackets, and have a tab mounted to that bracket and braided lines from there to the calipers.

That's the plan as it stands at the moment so it gets through engineering retaining original safety equipment (even though they don't really work).

Nice little bunch of bits.
Before the clutch clip goes in check the top of the pedal, they fatigue and can break that little bridging strip, a Ford stuff up in engineering, I couple of light welds will secure it for ever. I've had 2x break in different cars.
Hard to keep secrets like that, hope it's going to go well

The pedal snapped back in the day and fixed with a new bit of plate and some beads of weld. You can kinda see the repair in this shot before I got them coated.




Yeah Christmas will be great, she had no idea. Only thing is we will be doing a bit of travel and outings so getting stuff done on the car might be a bit tricky. I want to rebuild the engine with her Dad so you might see that if we get to it. Just waiting on a few more bits then I can start the short block.

Hey mate looking good, loving the reflection down the side of the car, its like a mirror👌
 
I think the issue of the offset diff / one wheel poking out has been talked about on the forum before. Flighter maybe? Noticed it on his car and posed the question and others had the same, I measured mine up and it sits square but that not to say it hasn't taken a knock big enough to move the axle at some point. It hit plenty of kerbs back in the day.
Is there any adjustment to be had in the diff shackles?

at least Drew could see what the photos were.
 
 
I was stumped to see what the funny twisted bit of metal we were looking at was.
Like one of those vase/face images that are meant to prove if you are an axe weilding psycho or not.
 
Great photos though Mark just the same.
Oh, theres 2 specs of dirt on your garage floor...