Just over a week after our first weekend of work, we returned one evening to
put a couple of hours in, mainly to see if the WD40 had worked some
magic yet. It had, and the front bumper came off with relative ease.
The front wings proved more of a problem - the oil had loosened the
wing support, but the body was so rusted that the torque required to
even loosen the screw a little was tearing the bodywork off. No choice
here, do as little damage as possible, we'll have to fix with welding
later. Both wings duly came off.
Unfortunately we'd burred the rear bumper screws so much that we
decided to try and drill out the remaining bolts. We managed to get 2
off but this took Ross all evening. At the same time I set about the
front lamp assembly. Locating the bolts at the base of the struts and
undoing them. More problems here, Two of the bolts were secured by a
nut which was housed within the strut they were being attached to. The
nut turned within its housing which left us no obvious way to get the
nut out. We ran out of evening and left the car feeling better than we
had after the previous weekend.