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Power Wash 28 Years of Dirt

Posted: 29 Apr 2008 23:14
by FI Spyder
I power washed the rear and under side of car this afternoon washing away 28 years of dirt. You can see original factory markings of crayon on right lower link.

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In this shot you can see red markings of original springs, still good after all these years (front ones were sagging and were replaced.) You can see where the differential was originally orange but was later painted black. Some of the black paint came off were presumably some oil spilled out on it. Under side looks much better than the camera actually shows. Needs respray of anti chip on rocker panels and a touch up of undercoat in places. The only thing that realy needs attention is the rear anti sway bar. (What <b>will</b> I do next winter?)

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Other than the anti sway bar there is no rust under the car. It a camera thing. See link below
http://www.forum.triumphtr7.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7188



TR7 Spider - 1978 Spifire - 1976 Spitfire - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra
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Posted: 30 Apr 2008 07:28
by john mc nulty
looks good after all these years looks sound

Posted: 30 Apr 2008 08:08
by TR Tony
That's quite incredibly well preserved after 28 years! Dry climate?

Next week my DHC is going to have the underside power washed & then waxoiled. I hope it looks as good as yours when all the dirt is off - somehow I doubt it though.

Tony
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<font size="1">1981 2L FHC Cavalry Blue - very original & not rusty!
1980 3.5L V8 DHC Regency Red - on the road again.</font id="size1">

Posted: 30 Apr 2008 10:12
by Beans
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by FI Spyder</i>

...the differential was originally orange but was later painted black. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
That is the factory applied colour code for the CWP ratio. IN this case red for a 3.90:1 ratio.

B.t.w. very sound looking under side [;)]

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<font color="blue"><i>1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)
1981 TR7 DHC (not very well known yet, but back on the road)
Also a 1980 TR7 DHC, 1980 TR7 DHC FI, 1981 TR7 FHC
http://tr7beans.blogspot.com/</i></font id="blue"></center>