Boring Black Rallye

[wainwrightj]

Yea, cheers for the update.  Good to see a Rallye getting a thorough clean-up.  I'm also planning to clean up the underside of mine but keep putting it off as I'm a) worried what I'll find & b) know it'll be an awkward, filthy, and long job!

It's worth it though as you can see I did it all on jack stands and it wasn't enjoyable haha.

I've been cleaning up steel parts using an electrolysis tank but am quite interested in your citric acid method.  Seems to give similar results.  If you could post some instructions that would be great.

It seems a decent method I'll make sure I'll get a guide together soon.

As above, I'd get the old beam rebuilt as it will only be a matter of time before the other one goes.  I've just stripped down my second beam.  It wasn't giving any indication of problems and did turn out to be much better that the first but in fact the bearings had started to wear the swing arm shaft on one side.  Once that goes too far I think the seals start to let water in and from there the deterioration is pretty quick.  You seem to be pretty good at handling a spanner but if you need a hand stripping it down I may be able to help.  I think you're fairly local to me aren't you?

Yeah based near street went to IKEA in Bristol recently so up your way anyways ahah

I did notice a couple of things in your build.  The bolts fixing the mounts to the beam were the wrong way around in one of the pictures with the beam off the car (left side).  With the nuts on the outside they will foul the swing arm.  I think you may have spotted that though as you've got them the right way around on a later picture with the beam on the car (but that pic shows the RHS).

Yeah we swapped the bolts round dad noticed that too, I put them on that way round because it was easier than trying to pry the sway arm down to get the bolt in. Doesn;t pay to cut corners though

Also, on the rear brake calipers the plate that locks the pads in place should go on the bottom and the springs on top.  Welshpug has said in previous posts that with them the wrong way around they pads can pop out, which isn't going to make for a good day.  I can't tell if you've managed to transpose the carriers on to the wrong sides but hopefully the pic below will help you work it out.

That's how I've done the brake calipers I think it's right I could be wrong I may have put them on the round side of the car or something. I didn't take photos before and taking the other calipers apart and used google as a reference for putting the pads back in. Let me know if it is wrong and I'll make sure I correct it

Thanks for the help in advance

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Good work. I need to do exactly the same on mine. Hope mine isnt too rusty :/

I feel as if you said something similar when I posted about my rusty wheel arches

Tell you what I'll sort out the rust on yours and you can sort out some throttle bodies for mine