9 January 2021 Spent today tidying up and preparing for the kit delivery on Tuesday. Swept and generally cleaned up the floor, and bench areas, my airline and blower is proving really helpful with this. Moved a few more redundant things over to the shed. The TVR was moved out on to the drive as I think, initially at least I will need all the space. Looking at options for putting it into temporary storage seeing as I won't be driving it in the near future with lockdown in full effect. 10 January 2021 More cleaning up, I never imagined that I would be mopping the garage floor, but that is what I did today. Just getting the worst of the muck off before the build up starts in earnest in the hope that I can keep the build clean. Once I had finished with the floor I officially started the build by getting the control arms down and pressing in the new ball joints to the front upper arms with my press tool which worked a treat. I also pressed in the new polybushes to the control arms. It was a fiddly task, I warmed the bushes up in some hot water to make them a bit more pliable. Greased the tubes where the bushes go with some red rubber grease. I used my vice and some of the adaptors from my pressing kit to push them, even so, the bush seemed to go anywhere but into the tubes. Had to hold the bush, control arm, and the two adaptors with one hand and tighten up the vice with the other. Once the lip of the bush was in I liberally applied grease to the bush and pressed it fully in, hitting it with a rubber mallet to push the lip out the other side. I greased the metal crush tubes and slid those inside the bush. After many attempts I finished the top control arms. Only the lower front control arms and all the rear ones to go. With hindsight it might have been better to fit the ball joints after I had got the bushes in, but it's progress and the build has started!
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