January 3rd, 2017

Spend: £10.00

 

Visited local welding place Bucks Welding & Fabrication who welded a larger metal plate on the bottom of the mount so there is a better surface cover.

 

 

January 7th, 2017

Spend: £6.98

 

Back to the engine mount.  This time armed with some additional aluminium spacers I fixed the pedestal into its final location.  The engine is mounted!

 

 

Now concentrating on the exhaust.  Started with another hole in the body in front of the old Crossflow exhaust position.

 

 

January 8th, 2017

Spend: £0.00

 

What a pain getting the exhaust manifold in.  Ended up with enlarging the hole so that it meets the old hole.  Will have to get some kind of cover for it in the future.  For now I just want it to work.  Will need a small section of exhaust as the manifold sits further forward.  Thankfully it clears the wheel when turning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then took everything out of the car again and put the gearbox and engine together on the floor along with the clutch and coverplate.  Don't seem to have 5mm play between release bearing and finger plate like @Marto303 said I would need, but have yet to find out if it matters.

 

January 14th, 2017

Spend: £4.49

 

Fitted propshaft back into car and tightened all bolts up for the axle.  Also looked more closely at release bearing which seems to be too tall for my set up.  No alternative found yet.  Handbrake on offside does not seem to want to engage/dis-engage like the nearside does.  Getting a bit fcked off

 

January 21st, 2017

Spend: £13.39

 

Replaced clutch release bearing and created spring on fork.  Still no free play on fork.  Giving up.  Handbrake continues to stick, but re-reading an old post it seems to have happened before.  May need to disassemble the brake to resolve.  Will leave for now.  Put brake pipes back on rear and re-filled DOT4.

 

January 22nd, 2017

Spend: £0.00

 

Continued with assembly at rear.  Car back on wheels and out of the garage for more clutch figuring out.  Hooked up to clutch pedal it looks like the clutch action is correct and there is just no free play for the fork.  Adding 3mm spacers still did not add free play.

 

January 28th, 2017

Spend: £13.81

 

After visiting @Marto303 during the week who kindly arranged for a flywheel/clutch measuring session it was pointed out to me that the best thing to do was to mark the location of the fingers in relation to the shaft and then see where the release bearing would sit in relation to the mark.

 

 

You can see that it is right on the mark!

 

 

Obviously it is not ideal, but with no money available for a new flywheel, clutch and coverplate, it will do.

Then rearranged the garage in preparation for the gearbox/engine fitting tomorrow!

 

January 29th, 2017

Earned: £3.35

 

I'm just going to leave this here

 

 

Used some old IKEA metal brackets to create some spacers to put just a little more distance between clutch and release bearing and then put it all back in the car.  Filled the gearbox and diff with fresh oil.  Engine is back on the mounts, but not happy with the final fit of the driver/intake side mount.  Ideally I'd like it a bit higher, but there is no more thread on the rubber engine mount.

Also managed to sell my old Spax shocks today to a Locost builder from Kettering.

 

January 31st, 2017

Spend: £10.00

 

Went back to Bucks Welding & Fabrication who butchered a small pedestal together using my old Crossflow mount.  Can't beat that service!

 

 

 

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