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Things are moving forward!
Following a few days of local trundling, I decided to test the Mondeo on the motorway. 
I figured that a gentle run at 50-60mph would be wise first, so I popped up to Stevenage, then full speed on the return. Suitable period signage deployed.

 
Arrangements had been made for the car transporter to pick up the Capri, so time to get things ready. The car was pulled out into daylight...

...giving space, whilst waiting for the transporter, for a good wash of the garage floor with de-greaser.  The engine, previously having been down the side, has been moved into the middle (note - moving a pinto with gearbox attached, on your own, is not recommended).

Scuse the terrible picture, but it was taken quite late in the day!

Now wait to see what the painter thinks of it. In the mean time, there are parts to order...

Also, in honour of the fact I chose to put the money and time into it, rather than any other option, I decided to splash out on a dealer sticker for the rear window. This wasn't the original supplying dealer, but they re-sold it in the early noughties, and Haywards Heath is where I bought it from @garycox four years ago, so it seemed appropriate.

For various reasons, mainly being swamped with work, I haven't updated this thread in ages.
Mondeo is back on the road. I am afraid to say I chucked most of the work to the garage in the end. Mainly through working long days for most of the last month, and having a deadline of needing the car again. The head was taken off, skimmed, then had new core plugs fitted, reassemble with new cambelt. On re starting, a misfire was found and sorted. I've had it on a few local journeys and probably done about 30 odd miles, it takes a while to build up oil pressure - I'm not sure if they chucked 10W40 in it when reassembling, but that's easily changed.  I have a trip to Scotland in a weeks time, followed by another one a month after that - I'll do a couple of longer round trips this weekend to identify any issues... including a nice long motorway run which is the acid test.
Focus has been in use for absolutely everything, but will now rest a bit!
Finally some Capri progress. It's being picked up and taken to the painter on Monday. Everything has been arranged and at long last things can move forward! I have a period over the next 6 weeks when I'm pretty busy with work and other non-work things, but hopefully it'll come back just as things calm down. And in the meantime I have a few bits to do - the garage needs a good clean and tidy, there's a number of parts to get ordered and picked up and so forth.

Things are moving forward!
Following a few days of local trundling, I decided to test the Mondeo on the motorway. 
I figured that a gentle run at 50-60mph would be wise first, so I popped up to Stevenage, then full speed on the return. Suitable period signage deployed.

 
Arrangements had been made for the car transporter to pick up the Capri, so time to get things ready. The car was pulled out into daylight...

...giving space, whilst waiting for the transporter, for a good wash of the garage floor with de-greaser.  The engine, previously having been down the side, has been moved into the middle (note - moving a pinto with gearbox attached, on your own, is not recommended).

Scuse the terrible picture, but it was taken quite late in the day!

Now wait to see what the painter thinks of it. In the mean time, there are parts to order...

Things are moving forward!
Following a few days of local trundling, I decided to test the Mondeo on the motorway. 
I figured that a gentle run at 50-60mph would be wise first, so I popped up to Stevenage, then full speed on the return. Suitable period signage deployed.

 
Arrangements had been made for the car transporter to pick up the Capri, so time to get things ready. The car was pulled out into daylight...

...giving space, whilst waiting for the transporter, for a good wash of the garage floor with de-greaser.  The engine, previously having been down the side, has been moved into the middle (note - moving a pinto with gearbox attached, on your own, is not recommended).

Scuse the terrible picture, but it was taken quite late in the day!

Now wait to see what the painter thinks of it. In the mean time, there are parts to order...

Things are moving forward!
Following a few days of local trundling, I decided to test the Mondeo on the motorway. 
I figured that a gentle run at 50-60mph would be wise first, so I popped up to Stevenage, then full speed on the return. Suitable period signage deployed.

 
Arrangements had been made for the car transporter to pick up the Capri, so time to get things ready. The car was pulled out into daylight...

...giving space, whilst waiting for the transporter, for a good wash of the garage floor with de-greaser.  The engine, previously having been down the side, has been moved into the middle (note - moving a pinto with gearbox attached, on your own, is not recommended).

Scuse the terrible picture, but it was taken quite late in the day!

Now wait to see what the painter thinks of it. In the mean time, there are parts to order...

Also, in honour of the fact I chose to put the money and time into it, rather than any other option, I decided to splash out on a dealer sticker for the rear window. This wasn't the original supplying dealer, but they re-sold it in the early noughties, and Haywards Heath is where I bought it from @garycox four years ago, so it seemed appropriate.

For various reasons, mainly being swamped with work, I haven't updated this thread in ages.
Mondeo is back on the road. I am afraid to say I chucked most of the work to the garage in the end. Mainly through working long days for most of the last month, and having a deadline of needing the car again. The head was taken off, skimmed, then had new core plugs fitted, reassemble with new cambelt. On re starting, a misfire was found and sorted. I've had it on a few local journeys and probably done about 30 odd miles, it takes a while to build up oil pressure - I'm not sure if they chucked 10W40 in it when reassembling, but that's easily changed.  I have a trip to Scotland in a weeks time, followed by another one a month after that - I'll do a couple of longer round trips this weekend to identify any issues... including a nice long motorway run which is the acid test.
Focus has been in use for absolutely everything, but will now rest a bit!
Finally some Capri progress. It's being picked up and taken to the painter on Monday. Everything has been arranged and at long last things can move forward! I have a period over the next 6 weeks when I'm pretty busy with work and other non-work things, but hopefully it'll come back just as things calm down. And in the meantime I have a few bits to do - the garage needs a good clean and tidy, there's a number of parts to get ordered and picked up and so forth.

Things are moving forward!
Following a few days of local trundling, I decided to test the Mondeo on the motorway. 
I figured that a gentle run at 50-60mph would be wise first, so I popped up to Stevenage, then full speed on the return. Suitable period signage deployed.

 
Arrangements had been made for the car transporter to pick up the Capri, so time to get things ready. The car was pulled out into daylight...

...giving space, whilst waiting for the transporter, for a good wash of the garage floor with de-greaser.  The engine, previously having been down the side, has been moved into the middle (note - moving a pinto with gearbox attached, on your own, is not recommended).

Scuse the terrible picture, but it was taken quite late in the day!

Now wait to see what the painter thinks of it. In the mean time, there are parts to order...

Things are moving forward!
Following a few days of local trundling, I decided to test the Mondeo on the motorway. 
I figured that a gentle run at 50-60mph would be wise first, so I popped up to Stevenage, then full speed on the return. Suitable period signage deployed.

 
Arrangements had been made for the car transporter to pick up the Capri, so time to get things ready. The car was pulled out into daylight...

...giving space, whilst waiting for the transporter, for a good wash of the garage floor with de-greaser.  The engine, previously having been down the side, has been moved into the middle (note - moving a pinto with gearbox attached, on your own, is not recommended).

Scuse the terrible picture, but it was taken quite late in the day!

Now wait to see what the painter thinks of it. In the mean time, there are parts to order...

Things are moving forward!
Following a few days of local trundling, I decided to test the Mondeo on the motorway. 
I figured that a gentle run at 50-60mph would be wise first, so I popped up to Stevenage, then full speed on the return. Suitable period signage deployed.

 
Arrangements had been made for the car transporter to pick up the Capri, so time to get things ready. The car was pulled out into daylight...

...giving space, whilst waiting for the transporter, for a good wash of the garage floor with de-greaser.  The engine, previously having been down the side, has been moved into the middle (note - moving a pinto with gearbox attached, on your own, is not recommended).

Scuse the terrible picture, but it was taken quite late in the day!

Now wait to see what the painter thinks of it. In the mean time, there are parts to order...

Things are moving forward!
Following a few days of local trundling, I decided to test the Mondeo on the motorway. 
I figured that a gentle run at 50-60mph would be wise first, so I popped up to Stevenage, then full speed on the return. Suitable period signage deployed.

 
Arrangements had been made for the car transporter to pick up the Capri, so time to get things ready. The car was pulled out into daylight...

...giving space, whilst waiting for the transporter, for a good wash of the garage floor with de-greaser.  The engine, previously having been down the side, has been moved into the middle (note - moving a pinto with gearbox attached, on your own, is not recommended).

Scuse the terrible picture, but it was taken quite late in the day!

Now wait to see what the painter thinks of it. In the mean time, there are parts to order...

Things are moving forward!
Following a few days of local trundling, I decided to test the Mondeo on the motorway. 
I figured that a gentle run at 50-60mph would be wise first, so I popped up to Stevenage, then full speed on the return. Suitable period signage deployed.

 
Arrangements had been made for the car transporter to pick up the Capri, so time to get things ready. The car was pulled out into daylight...

...giving space, whilst waiting for the transporter, for a good wash of the garage floor with de-greaser.  The engine, previously having been down the side, has been moved into the middle (note - moving a pinto with gearbox attached, on your own, is not recommended).

Scuse the terrible picture, but it was taken quite late in the day!

Now wait to see what the painter thinks of it. In the mean time, there are parts to order...

For various reasons, mainly being swamped with work, I haven't updated this thread in ages.
Mondeo is back on the road. I am afraid to say I chucked most of the work to the garage in the end. Mainly through working long days for most of the last month, and having a deadline of needing the car again. The head was taken off, skimmed, then had new core plugs fitted, reassemble with new cambelt. On re starting, a misfire was found and sorted. I've had it on a few local journeys and probably done about 30 odd miles, it takes a while to build up oil pressure - I'm not sure if they chucked 10W40 in it when reassembling, but that's easily changed.  I have a trip to Scotland in a weeks time, followed by another one a month after that - I'll do a couple of longer round trips this weekend to identify any issues... including a nice long motorway run which is the acid test.
Focus has been in use for absolutely everything, but will now rest a bit!
Finally some Capri progress. It's being picked up and taken to the painter on Monday. Everything has been arranged and at long last things can move forward! I have a period over the next 6 weeks when I'm pretty busy with work and other non-work things, but hopefully it'll come back just as things calm down. And in the meantime I have a few bits to do - the garage needs a good clean and tidy, there's a number of parts to get ordered and picked up and so forth.

Things are moving forward!
Following a few days of local trundling, I decided to test the Mondeo on the motorway. 
I figured that a gentle run at 50-60mph would be wise first, so I popped up to Stevenage, then full speed on the return. Suitable period signage deployed.

 
Arrangements had been made for the car transporter to pick up the Capri, so time to get things ready. The car was pulled out into daylight...

...giving space, whilst waiting for the transporter, for a good wash of the garage floor with de-greaser.  The engine, previously having been down the side, has been moved into the middle (note - moving a pinto with gearbox attached, on your own, is not recommended).

Scuse the terrible picture, but it was taken quite late in the day!

Now wait to see what the painter thinks of it. In the mean time, there are parts to order...

Things are moving forward!
Following a few days of local trundling, I decided to test the Mondeo on the motorway. 
I figured that a gentle run at 50-60mph would be wise first, so I popped up to Stevenage, then full speed on the return. Suitable period signage deployed.

 
Arrangements had been made for the car transporter to pick up the Capri, so time to get things ready. The car was pulled out into daylight...

...giving space, whilst waiting for the transporter, for a good wash of the garage floor with de-greaser.  The engine, previously having been down the side, has been moved into the middle (note - moving a pinto with gearbox attached, on your own, is not recommended).

Scuse the terrible picture, but it was taken quite late in the day!

Now wait to see what the painter thinks of it. In the mean time, there are parts to order...

Going through old photos and I found this from 2015. It was scrapped not long after I took this 
 

For various reasons, mainly being swamped with work, I haven't updated this thread in ages.
Mondeo is back on the road. I am afraid to say I chucked most of the work to the garage in the end. Mainly through working long days for most of the last month, and having a deadline of needing the car again. The head was taken off, skimmed, then had new core plugs fitted, reassemble with new cambelt. On re starting, a misfire was found and sorted. I've had it on a few local journeys and probably done about 30 odd miles, it takes a while to build up oil pressure - I'm not sure if they chucked 10W40 in it when reassembling, but that's easily changed.  I have a trip to Scotland in a weeks time, followed by another one a month after that - I'll do a couple of longer round trips this weekend to identify any issues... including a nice long motorway run which is the acid test.
Focus has been in use for absolutely everything, but will now rest a bit!
Finally some Capri progress. It's being picked up and taken to the painter on Monday. Everything has been arranged and at long last things can move forward! I have a period over the next 6 weeks when I'm pretty busy with work and other non-work things, but hopefully it'll come back just as things calm down. And in the meantime I have a few bits to do - the garage needs a good clean and tidy, there's a number of parts to get ordered and picked up and so forth.

Little progress in these parts. Fuel tank was fine, everything nice and tight and running well, gauge works - chucked a couple of gallons of 4* in (at great expense) and it registered (even showing empty on the tank, before taking the old one off, I drained about 2 gallons out).
The old tank itself is still kicking around, I offered it for free online, it's got surface rust but it is intact and perfectly servicable.
Paint wise, I've contacted a couple of other painters that I've had recommended, and one is coming to have a look at the car next week. Hopefully, that will mean some progress!
I'd no idea it'd be quite this long (but I suppose that's the nature of a project like this) and feel a bit silly given that others can work miracles in half the time.
I popped down today for a bit of a tidy up, and to have a looksee at some shiny parts ready for refitting, as some form of motivation. And to figure out the fixing holes for the side rubbing trim which is supposedly a complete cow to get back on! The longer runs have studs along the middle and some sort of clip should be inside for them to locate on. Hmm!

Opportunistic (or magpie-like) as ever, I found an old coat hook board and re-used it as a fan belt storage unit...

Meanwhile, the Mondeo had a further tart up with a couple of coats on the front bumper.

Also, in honour of the fact I chose to put the money and time into it, rather than any other option, I decided to splash out on a dealer sticker for the rear window. This wasn't the original supplying dealer, but they re-sold it in the early noughties, and Haywards Heath is where I bought it from @garycox four years ago, so it seemed appropriate.

Fuck a duck 

The Mondeo has been having a few moments of late, coolant wise. I thought I'd managed to bleed the system again properly, there were a few moments without hot air through the heater but broadly speaking everything was fine. Bowling up the A1 on a test trip, prior to a 400-mile journey next week, and the needle flops into the red. More scarily, presumably the overflow was making it difficult for the alternator to catch up, as everything electrical became that little bit dimmer and slower. Predictably this happened just after a turning, carried on at 50 to the next junction. It's vomited out the expansion cap... Just waiting for things to cool down and see what's going on. 

Also, in honour of the fact I chose to put the money and time into it, rather than any other option, I decided to splash out on a dealer sticker for the rear window. This wasn't the original supplying dealer, but they re-sold it in the early noughties, and Haywards Heath is where I bought it from @garycox four years ago, so it seemed appropriate.

My three toys (aka money pits), first time together.






 

For various reasons, mainly being swamped with work, I haven't updated this thread in ages.
Mondeo is back on the road. I am afraid to say I chucked most of the work to the garage in the end. Mainly through working long days for most of the last month, and having a deadline of needing the car again. The head was taken off, skimmed, then had new core plugs fitted, reassemble with new cambelt. On re starting, a misfire was found and sorted. I've had it on a few local journeys and probably done about 30 odd miles, it takes a while to build up oil pressure - I'm not sure if they chucked 10W40 in it when reassembling, but that's easily changed.  I have a trip to Scotland in a weeks time, followed by another one a month after that - I'll do a couple of longer round trips this weekend to identify any issues... including a nice long motorway run which is the acid test.
Focus has been in use for absolutely everything, but will now rest a bit!
Finally some Capri progress. It's being picked up and taken to the painter on Monday. Everything has been arranged and at long last things can move forward! I have a period over the next 6 weeks when I'm pretty busy with work and other non-work things, but hopefully it'll come back just as things calm down. And in the meantime I have a few bits to do - the garage needs a good clean and tidy, there's a number of parts to get ordered and picked up and so forth.

For various reasons, mainly being swamped with work, I haven't updated this thread in ages.
Mondeo is back on the road. I am afraid to say I chucked most of the work to the garage in the end. Mainly through working long days for most of the last month, and having a deadline of needing the car again. The head was taken off, skimmed, then had new core plugs fitted, reassemble with new cambelt. On re starting, a misfire was found and sorted. I've had it on a few local journeys and probably done about 30 odd miles, it takes a while to build up oil pressure - I'm not sure if they chucked 10W40 in it when reassembling, but that's easily changed.  I have a trip to Scotland in a weeks time, followed by another one a month after that - I'll do a couple of longer round trips this weekend to identify any issues... including a nice long motorway run which is the acid test.
Focus has been in use for absolutely everything, but will now rest a bit!
Finally some Capri progress. It's being picked up and taken to the painter on Monday. Everything has been arranged and at long last things can move forward! I have a period over the next 6 weeks when I'm pretty busy with work and other non-work things, but hopefully it'll come back just as things calm down. And in the meantime I have a few bits to do - the garage needs a good clean and tidy, there's a number of parts to get ordered and picked up and so forth.