Tuesday, July 04, 2006
... holiday's here!
... which I have managed to achieve! I had wanted to start connecting
up electrics and lights before fitting the engine, but after
connecting the battery it appeared that nothing would work with the
ignition on, and so I figured that the immobiliser was probably
refusing to work without an engine attached (more about that later!).
The week started with a shopping trip. I had already ordered and
received a new lightened flywheel from ebay, and so set off to
Kingfisher Kustoms and German and Swedish to collect a clutch friction
plate, fuel pump, filters and regulator, steering rack gaiter and
various other bits and bobs.
I set to fitting the fuel pump under the tank at the front and
plumbing the piping to the engine bay. The steering rack gaiter was
then duly fitted without too much trouble (except an aborted attempt
to fit the rack first and then track control rods afterwards; easier
to fit them to the rack off the car).
