time for the leo to get a refurb!

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charlieboy

charlieboy

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well had the old leo for a few years now and only changed stuff has it broke but i thought as its been sat on the self in the back room lookin all sorry for it's self for a few months i'd strip it and see if it needed any work...........fek me a wish i'd left it :lol::lol::lol: well it needed quite a lot, mainly the stuff thats under stress i.e rose joints, hubs and so on. so a couple of orders to freeprawn later....

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more to come over the next few weeks :lol::lol::lol:

well the leo is now in bits....

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more to come as and when i get my arse in gear :lol::lol::lol:
 
seen as the chassis is gettin an overhaul i thought i might as well redo the sell to. some of you that know the car, know that the windows were cut out which made the shell a tad weak and the rear was cut to make room for the fg tuned pipe so i thought id fill these in and re paint ;)

here it was b4......

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here it is now all repaired ready for new paint......

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painted gloss white and the others with the maskin tape.....

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here's the black on so you can now tell what theam i've gone for......

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quite happy the way it's turned out but the maskin tape was shite that i used so i've had a bit of paint bleed under the tape :( but as i aint gental with this car a bit of paint bleed is the least of its worries :lol::lol:
 
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over the last couple of day this is how far i've got :lol::lol:

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can you see why my mrs thought i was takin the piss :lol::lol:

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whats wrong with stippin and rebuildin your engines on the dinnin room table??????????????? :lol:
 
Good effort mate :cool2: You will probably have finished yours by the time I get my bug sorted - not had time with holidays & working away for the last 7 weeks. Hopefully this week will be my last week away tho so will get my arse into gear & get it done. Give me a shout when you back up & running & we will go for a 'gentle' bash somewhere :lol::lol:
 
dwarfy said:
Good effort mate :cool2: You will probably have finished yours by the time I get my bug sorted - not had time with holidays & working away for the last 7 weeks. Hopefully this week will be my last week away tho so will get my arse into gear & get it done. Give me a shout when you back up & running & we will go for a 'gentle' bash somewhere :lol::lol:
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gentle???????????? fek that :lol: out right distruction sounds better :lol::lol:

will give you buzz mate as and when it's finished ;)
 
well after seein dwarfys build i found out that my engine had the wrong clutch housin so i got the dremil and files out and cut out the bit i no longer need :cup-1:

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also don't like after a while the engine looks dirty so i got some hi temp paint and painted the engine black so i wont be able to tell as much :lol: :cup-1:

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looks good!! you got a link to that paint you used for the motor?
and btw your going all black like im going to do with my build too :D

but might just stick with white wheels instead of green only because
of the stupid rit dye colours :lol:

anyways it looks great! and cant wait to see the rest!!
 
voo2doo said:
Looks good Ben,you know you have a CY clutch holder there.
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cheers james :w00t: it was the housin mate it didn't have the cut out in it, i've checked with rossmod and hobbythek and the both said i had the wrong housin so instead of payin £25 for the right part i thought id mod it myself ;)
 
voo2doo said:
If it doesn't work out I have a Zen you can have.
I meant the clutch holder(the thing that the clutch sits on) I have one of them too!
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gotcha :lol:

cheers mate will let you know how i get on tomora mate as the steel location plates should be here so i can fit the large mount :w00t:
 
Looking good...always worth doing a full rebuild every now and then...

seeing as you have had if for so long at least you wont have any major shocks..i.e no woodscrews holding it together...lol
 
wezg said:
Looking good...always worth doing a full rebuild every now and then...

seeing as you have had if for so long at least you wont have any major shocks..i.e no woodscrews holding it together...lol
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you'd be suprised what you use to keep yourself runnin mate :lol: i forgot some of the things i actually did to it :lol::lol: all will be sorted now though mate :p
 
wezg said:
Looking good...always worth doing a full rebuild every now and then...

seeing as you have had if for so long at least you wont have any major shocks..i.e no woodscrews holding it together...lol
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You can never have too much tinkering with these things, mine gets a bloody good looking at during and after every meeting and a full strip down, clean and inspect every 2 meetings ish.
For the little time it takes to pull them apart, check them over and put them back together, it's well worth it.
 
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