Guinness
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| posted on 5/5/04 at 08:03 PM |
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Just got my donor home!!
Just got my Sierra home. Looking forward to the weekend when I'm going to start stripping it down. Started the car at last!!!
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tom_loughlin
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| posted on 5/5/04 at 08:25 PM |
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hey,
just wondering which model sierra it is?
i got mine about a month or so ago, but in uni now, so got no time to play with it.
have u got your kit yet?
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James
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| posted on 6/5/04 at 09:58 AM |
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Guinness,
If it helps inspire you- Ned managed to strip his Sierra with a mate in a weekend!
When it comes to the loom- discipline yourself to label *everything*! A year later those 'obvious' connectors will suddenly seem
disctinctly unfamiliar! I know from experience! 
HTH,
James
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ned
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| posted on 6/5/04 at 10:04 AM |
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only label the loom if you intend reusing it - i'm not and so didn't bother with it, I just cut it all. It could be time consuming to
label it all properly..
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/users/ned/donors/sierra/sierra_stripped.htm
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Baldrick
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 posted on 6/5/04 at 12:32 PM |
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Number 1 tool for stripping down - Angle grinder!
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Alan B
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| posted on 6/5/04 at 06:47 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ned
only label the loom if you intend reusing it ..........
Excellent, though possibly quite obvious, advice......
Only joking Ned, couldn't resist..
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Hugh Paterson
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| posted on 6/5/04 at 07:35 PM |
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Hey baldrick you must have lots of time on yer hands. NO1 tool for strip down, my trusty petrol Sthil saw, great for scaring grannies that moan at the
noise and mess you are leaving around
Shug.
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 6/5/04 at 07:51 PM |
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http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/photos.php?action=showphoto&photo=convertible.jpg
macspeedy found what ford missed
[Edited on 6-5-04 by mangogrooveworkshop]
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Peteff
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| posted on 6/5/04 at 08:39 PM |
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Rule No1.
Get the back end well in the air and cut the front panel out. It makes it easier to get the engine and box out in one and the rear axle off. The front
cuts out easy enough with a hacksaw. Or you can tip it on its side once the heavy bits are out.
[Edited on 6/5/04 by Peteff]
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Guinness
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| posted on 7/5/04 at 07:46 AM |
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Cheers lads, much inspiration, got a few mates coming round this weekend to help.
Tom, it was a 92 Sapphire, 1.6l Pinto. Hoping to afford a better engine, so not planning on using it, but I'll take it out anyway to learn, or
in case I can't afford one after kit purchase. No decision on the kit yet, liked the MK and the GTS, but interesed in the MH as he is closer to
me.
Peteff, like the idea of tipping it, but I am really pushed for space so it looks like it'll have to stay level.
Guinness
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ned
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| posted on 7/5/04 at 08:24 AM |
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Interested in the MH? What's an MH?
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Guinness
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| posted on 7/5/04 at 08:44 AM |
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Sorry Ned, typo, meant MN Racing. As mentioned in other forums.
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Graceland
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| posted on 9/6/04 at 01:37 PM |
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took me 2 days to totally strip my XR4x4 donor on me own - unfortunately, it was my pride and joy so a couple of tears were shed while doing the grim
task of cutting it up with the angle grinder
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Guinness
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| posted on 9/6/04 at 09:52 PM |
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Well never mind Paul, it's gone to a better place. How fast is it going to be with 200bhp and none of that excess weight (roof, doors etc)?
Scrappy came yesterday and took the shell away. Took just over 4 weeks to strip it, working about an hour a night during the week. Thanks for the
tips guys. The loom was the thing that held it up a bit, they must put them in first, had to strip much further back than i'd envisgaed to get
it out in one piece (a least it's labelled).
Off with the ne7ers on Thursday for a blat in my mates car, then to Newark to look for a kit!!!
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Dale
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| posted on 10/6/04 at 02:10 PM |
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2 words.
Cutting torche 
20 years of rust sometimes just does not come off
Dale
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