I rented a Flatbed Car Transporter and together with a friend we picked it up and drove it to Wilrijk - Antwerp.
Everything went very smoothly until we decided to push it into my garage.
Nothing to do, the car wasn't moving a centimeter !!!
What now ?? Checking Gear, Everything OK. Checking brakes, aha, these were completely stuck at the rear. I must accidentaly have pushed on the brake when I got into the car. Stupid me !!
Solution : We simply lifted the rear with a jack and pushed it like that into its new home.
And I can assure you that this is not a very easy job when the underground isn't smooth concrete !! On monday I still had pains in my back.
I will very soon post some pictures of saturday.
What did I do ? Just took of the drums, and put the wheels back on.
It worked, its rolling back again. Still not easily but I didn't touched the front-brakes yet.
I spent the rest of the day cleaning and re-ordening my garage because in two weeks the body of the Renault 4cv will come back from the Sandblaster. I still have to figure out how I'm going to do to get them both into the garage in such a way that I can easily work on both of them. Will be tricky.
I took out the brake plates but of course couldn't remove the pistons.
I think I will have to use "Jeffs greasegun method" to get them out, or I'll maybe go to a Triumph garage to let them remove the pistons.
And in the same time they will sandblast it for me.
For 25$ I will almost have a brand new (not rebuild) caliper. Quite a bargain when you know that a new one costs over 195$ !!
I also removed the caliper on the right hand side today. It came of quite easily as I know how to do it now !
I will bring it to the garage tomorrow and see what they've done with the first one.
I brought them the second one and this will be ready next Tuesday. We'll see ....
Today I couldn't do anything more as I had to be the DJ at a birthday-party. Earn a lot of money to finance the restoration of the Spitfire. ;-)
Tomorrow I'm going to buy the first replacement parts at Anglo-Parts.
I'm also going to take a lot of pictures of the car.
Will post them next week.