August 26th, 2017

Spend: £0.00

Lost a little interest in the car over the holiday period, but set myself to it today and was pleasantly surprised to discover that removing a crank from an engine is not actually that difficult.

This is the crank out of a spare engine, which, once checked, will be making it's way into my engine.

August 28th, 2017

Spend: £0.00

Fitted the oil pressure gauge that I collected from my engine seller a while back.  It's not from the same VDO series as the rest of my gauges, but beggers can not be choosers I've not been able to test it yet, but it should work as it used to work on this engine and sender...

August 31st, 2017

Spend: £185.00

Collected my gearbox again from Martin after Graham checked it over.  Graham could find nothing wrong with the box, so a combination of wrong oil and/or spigot bearing interference must be what has been causing my crunching in 1st/2nd gear.  Have been advised to stick to Fuchs SYN5 oil, so bought 5L from Julian so I've got enough spare for the coming years