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Well, lots of progress today thankfully..











SO engine bay also stripped of Clutch cable, throttle cable and suspension ECU to car harness, Bonnet release.. wiper assy and brake valve..

Tomorrow, now, its pedal box, or pedals, heater box, gear knob, parking brake equaliser, and I may just attack the rear nearside quarter glass..and windscreen.

Can you recover the fuel hoses please.

Ohh ive not finished yet.. ill be recovering the metal pipes from under the car too..

This was only todays work from ten am to 4.30 pm..

I bet you are learning an awful lot from this exercise Paul and I just wish I had the time and space to do the same!! Regards, Matthew T.

Not really, board of it mathew.. Done a few now. Not really enjoying it, but needs must and parts needed...

Excellent work Paul... Good practice for a certain V6 Xantia languishing in Manchester

Dieselman wrote:I'm interested to see the heater box come out. Can't the dashboard and heater be removed as one?

William, I have the answer for you today!

The dash comes away as we seen before on its own.. then the harness needs moving away to one side or out completely (plugged both ends) then theres a number of 10mm bolts for the heater box, to at the back in the car, one at the front bottom on the floor, and two in the engine bay for the heater..

Then in the sctuttle, theres also these two that need to come away:



Then the complete pedal box frame comes out as one AFTER these are all removed..




Above: The two in the double washer come out for the pedal box, the upper right hole os one of the 10mm bolts that hold the heater box.





and theres two 10mm each end of the frame inside the car..

Then, disconnect the parking brake cable, and clutch and throttle if still connected and then you can do this:





and be left with this:



So, after this, I know know how they are built. Its impossible to get the heater box out of the car with the frame work in place due to the retaining frame. This tells me then that the Heater IS the first thing to go in the car when being built, or at least the pedal box frame and heater. The rest is built around it.

Crikey Paul there is not much left in there!! Regards, Matthew T.

Told you!

Left to do, 3x doors off, sunroof out, windscreen out, rear quarter glass out and bonnet off, fuel pipes off.

Then cut off the subframe mounts, and cut out the rear nearside leading edge of the wheel arch.

LOL. What I did do today, I noticed. I was able to LIFT The front end of the car off the front stands with my Arm! Thats how light they are with nothing in them...

Nice job, Paul. Thanks for the pics - interesting.