Author: John Martin
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Build Session 12 : Delivery, Gearbox Move and Engine Bay First Fix
Post Views: 1,370 Saturday morning and a chance to get a few hours in on the car. I’d not really had a chance to do anything since putting the engine in last Monday. I had managed to sneak into the garage late one night and fitted the gearstick and gear knob, but that’s more of…
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Build Session 11 : All hands to the hoist… Engine In
Post Views: 1,127 Big day today, big post… we have a whole day (August Bank Holiday Monday) to drop the engine into the chassis. Will it fit? Will the hoist tip over? Will the leveller work? Will my trolleys work? Will my leveller extensions work, or even come loose and drop off? Will I be…
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Build Session 10 : L-Hose, Engine Mounts and Engine Hoist Extensions
Post Views: 1,690 Back from a couple of days visiting family and had a few hours to get some prep done prior to putting the engine into the car tomorrow (Bank Holiday Monday). Radiator Top “L”-Hose The manual calls for the top radiator hose to be fitted to the engine prior to it going into…
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Build Session 9 : Front ARB and Horns
Post Views: 1,202 We were heading out on a family trip this weekend so I had just a couple of hours in the morning this morning to look at two jobs that I’d hoped to finish earlier in the week. But first, the Washer Bottle. I’d not been able to sleep last night and so…
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Email 4 : Washer Bottle in the Boot
Post Views: 1,822 Where’s the washer bottle… Couldn’t sleep so thought I’d look at the washer bottle and get a sense of what needed to be done. The build manual talks about fitting the washer bottle in the engine bay. I’d seen the 420R at Williams a few weeks earlier with it mounted on the…