Category: 2024 Summer Holiday to Greece
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Build Session 20 : Handbrake Again, De Dion Dry Run, De Deon Fit, Rear ARB, Flexible Rear Brake Pipe, Radius Arms
After time for reflection over night and some blog reading… Handbrake Cable… Again Having seen a couple of pictures on other people’s blogs, it was clear that the handbrake cable adjustment screws should be located in the clip on the RHS of the diff. I’m not sure what I was thinking that it stay in…
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Build Session 19 : Earth Leads, Oil Catch, Handbrake Cable, Diff Oil, Prop Bolts and Drive Shafts
Another one of those bitty weeks. Not much time to really get my teeth stuck into anything but got a couple of odd jobs done. Earth Leads First off was a go at the battery earth leads…. There are three leads that I needed to take a look at: Battery to engine Chassis to engine…
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Build Session 18 : Prop Shaft and Differential
Ok, so this post is a bit of a cheat. I actually put the prop-shaft and differential into the car yesterday… but it seemed to make sense to lump all these activities together in a single post. Accelerator Pedal Before we get to that though, and just to get me going today, I decided to…
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Build Session 17.5 : Caterham 420R Water and Oil Overview
This is a post from the future and a rather technical one at that – so stop reading now if that’s a big turn off for you 🙂 Having got the engine running I thought it would be a useful addition to the blog to have a diagram of the engine water and oil plumbing.…
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Build Session 17 : Engine Bay Plumbing
Now back from the US and the after effects of hurricane Irma… I have some more time to get on with the build. I’d left the project at the point where I really needed to get on with the engine bay plumbing and I’d laid all the hoses out in the engine bay prior to…
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Build Session 16 : Roll Over Bar, Some Engine Plumbing and Bonnet Test Fit with Nose Cone
This is a catch up post. Things had been busy with work and family stuff so I only had a couple of short periods that I’ve bunched up into one build session. Sept 12th Roll Over Bar Whilst looking for something simple to do one evening I thought I’d have a go at the roll…
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Build Session 15 : Odds and Ends, Bonnet and Radiator
This post is a rollup of a few days tinkering. I’m sure many of you will be relieved that I’m not going to spam you with any more posts than I absolutely have to, and so I’ll combine a few together. Sept 5th – Bonnet Arrived (for a while) The bonnet (Americanese: hood) of the…
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Build Session 14 : Oil Tank, Breather Tank, Steering Column, Throttle
scuttleToday was a PTO day, for those of you that aren’t up with that vernacular, PTO is “Paid Time Off”, a holiday. When I first ordered the kit from Williams I had planned to take a whole week off when the kit arrived. Work commitments changed waiting for the kit to arrive so I have…
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Build Session 13 : Exhaust Primaries, Cat and Lambda Probe
Before getting into today’s session lets have a bit of a recap on progress. Of the 90 tasks I have on the project plan, we have 36 tasks completed. And there are a few tasks on the plan that we’re not going to need to do thanks to Caterham doing them already, like weather gear…
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Build Session 12 : Delivery, Gearbox Move and Engine Bay First Fix
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 a treat than…