Started with another few days away, but did manage to get a few things done.
As the weber carb hasn't any fitting to allow the oil breather to be fed into the intake, I've fitted both with small "K&N" style filters, so that they don't pull any grit into the engine.
When I had the front "clam" off to paint the sub-frame, I fitted a better plug/socket that the electrical connection block that was there before, still need to seal the rear with a little silicon.
The engine cover had a few holes drilled in it when I got the car, I plan to fit a bit of mesh , it preparation for this, and to allow me to check various clearances, I opened the holes up into one, rather jagged hole.
As I had said before I was planning to re-plumb the coolant system, I got a suitable header tank from a Nissan Vanette at the local scrap yard, it fits in the corner of the engine bay perfectly. The original tank only had the one connection, where with 2 this tank will hopefully stop any air-locks.
The new jets for the weber arrived, so I got them fitted, and cleaned up the exhaust manifold at the same time.
The oil pressure adjuster I made, was fitted, allowing the engine to be started for the first time in a good few months. Surprisingly it started and run first time.
The rear lights that were on the car, a set of Wipac Pentalights, had a few cracks on the lens. I had looked at various replacements, but finally decided on a set of Aspöck systems Ecopoint rear lights. These were fitted to several of the trucks you see on the road, but this set had no central reflective triangle.
