I'm going to be doing pretty much all the sanding and fixing the guards up, he'll just be priming and then shooting the colour on. Roughly 500 or so for his time he thinks cause he's a long time family friend.

On another note, I had been noticing a knocking noise starting to come from the lhf corner over bumps occasionally so I thought i'd better check it out. Saw that the swaybar has been bashing against the strut casing pretty badly. So I put my xt130 arms on to give it a little extra clearance which helped. However When I unbolted the steering arms to get at the balljoint nut I saw why the noise had gotten worse. There was no split pin, and the nut was less than 3 turns from coming off completely. Knowing that this was formerly used as a track car I decided to see if anything else was done on the dodgy before it was sold on to the next person when they turned it back to standard. Turns out seat bolts have been stripped and just hammered into the fucked nuts, and bolts on the rear suspension haven't been tightened. Checked literally every bolt under the car and it feels much nicer now I know the suspension isn't going to fall apart driving in the hills.