took an angle grinder and loctite to the cam pulley ? 

will have to wait until after your meeting for the answer.

Here you go,, pickies,, back of flywheel with some nice heat scorch marks that look to be like spot welds 

everythins come loose at some point,, nice round stud holes

damage and a warp on the shaft

nearly finished just a few more tweaks

more graft today, gearbox back in after nosecone seal change, reverse switch added, oil change and a clean & paint

under body paited up and engine to go back in in the mornin hope the weather holds again 

that will do for today 

Had a nightmare over past few weeks with one of the front brakes, after i blew a piston out a few months ago i managed to get the piston back in ok, went to put new pads in and it just would not accept the pad on one side and refused to sit back over the disk,, various trys to refit to no avail even striped it down 2k sand down on the piston and barrel, a rebuild kit, yet it still would not accept the new pad and go back in place,,
so gsf weekend discount for a pair of new calipers and pads for less than 75 notes,
so new cliper on one side, just new pads on other for now (left side is completely silent as the wheel spins, right side with just the new pads is scraping as it spins may swap that one out yet), wheels on and the front end is finally back on the ground and hopefully a lot less headaches for now as 90% of the mechs is done just some body repair, sand&paint and put the elecs back together fingers x 
Rich.

So the roof repairs are fiannly complete, bar from anything the final sand down may reveal,
cleaned up and prepped both sides,


the rebuild,


The final finnish,


shopping time tmorra off to HoK hopefully for samples, gotta find out which colour combination of base's and candys i like best.
Rich.

Right after a nightmare tryin to upload these here we go, not the best paint quality as they are just some sample to see what i liked and i'm still not sure lol, originaly i was looking for something dark purple - nebula like, but then i saw a sparkely teal that looked like the stars were out on a clear blue day, so where to go now,, i ruled out the purple as i've come up with a name for the buggy and purple will not suit it lol. so down the teal route,
so layers are as follows, cheap high build primer, coarse silver base, kandy teal base, sparkles and lacqure didnt smooth surface just keyed to take the primer and i didnt cut back after 2 coats of lacqure on top of the sparkles as they are just for ideas and i wasnt looking for perfection


so there is the new problem, lighter tone medium tone or the darker tone 
top middle was 2-3 coats of kandy, bottom middle was 3-4 coats, and left was 4-5 coats,

Lots of sparkles there! I quite like the middle bottom one, but it's gonna be a tough choice!

Quick update, got slowed down loads lately with some silly stuff happenin, having now sanded down the outer skin of the shell and my latest set back has been a million and one pinholes opend up in the gelcaot, got the resin out and did a light brush over the skin to fill the holes,, unfortunatley i made the stupid judgment of mixing different resin and hardener brands and it didnt cure, so ended up waisting a week waiting for it to not set and then scrubbing the mess back off. so shell is back to just needing a scuff on the inside with a couple of deep scratch repairs to do, noticed a couple of new repairs needed to do on the roof and then thats ready for its final scuff.
windscreen/bonnet is almost finished, sanded down and repairs cureing off just 1 final rub down to square it up, again chasing pinholes but also having to drill out stress cracks has slowed it down.

orderd some evercoat slicksand (filler primer) should arrive tmorra supposed to be the "bees knees" for getting a super smooth finish on fiberglass so hopefully next weekend i should have all my prep finished and its the long job of starting the paint 
Rich.

Quick update, got slowed down loads lately with some silly stuff happenin, having now sanded down the outer skin of the shell and my latest set back has been a million and one pinholes opend up in the gelcaot, got the resin out and did a light brush over the skin to fill the holes,, unfortunatley i made the stupid judgment of mixing different resin and hardener brands and it didnt cure, so ended up waisting a week waiting for it to not set and then scrubbing the mess back off. so shell is back to just needing a scuff on the inside with a couple of deep scratch repairs to do, noticed a couple of new repairs needed to do on the roof and then thats ready for its final scuff.
windscreen/bonnet is almost finished, sanded down and repairs cureing off just 1 final rub down to square it up, again chasing pinholes but also having to drill out stress cracks has slowed it down.

orderd some evercoat slicksand (filler primer) should arrive tmorra supposed to be the "bees knees" for getting a super smooth finish on fiberglass so hopefully next weekend i should have all my prep finished and its the long job of starting the paint 
Rich.

looking forward to seeing this one badger, going to be a beaut. I used to paint cars back in the early 80's, my project was already  in colour so i missed the satisfaction of doing my own paint , always the option of redoing further down the line if i fancy a change, only ever played around with flakes on a few bike tanks so would be good to do a whole buggy 👍 Love the quality of your build 👍

quick update, only a little bit of awkward sanding left to do, got some more sparkles and going to do another couple of samples before settleing down to do the paint  , in the meantime got the drivers seat test fitted and just about slides in and my position to fit the mirrors done, still have to sort placement of antennas and a slight french for the back lights, id rarther do all me drilling etc before putting the new paint down and chipping it
Rich.

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Those seats do look extremely smart....and comfortable.

Hugh, they are verry comfortable, they dont quite hug you as buckets do so there is a little wiggle room (space for eating more pies  ) but do offer bolster support where you need it.
These are sparco R100 vinyl recliners, now if your patient enough you can get a good quality 2nd hand single or a pair on flea bay
However i wanted to be sure i bought something that both me and the missus would be comfortable in so went for a test and buy from a family run company called GSM Performance in Nottingham and i cant reccomend them enough if anyone is prepared to pay retail.
Rich.