’79 Mark V by Kuripiiritus

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A little update. Upgrade not yet finished. Have spent the weekend from morning to night in the garage. The "dirty" part is mostly done. Taking apart the engine, cleaning and putting it together again. Still to to is the vacuum puzzle and ignition. Have removed some extra weight. Kicked off the air pump and coal canister for tank ventilation.

Getting ready for the opration:

This is how it looks before anything is done:

Letting the "coffee" out of the cooling system. 

Washed the whole system later on. Such a nice crap came from the cooling system  

slowly taking stuff off:

The 100 kg intake manifold is off. removed the metal gasket/pan also for cleaning purpose:

Upper part has been put together again. You could press the old timing chain inwards by fingers width from both sides :

New timing chain and fuel pump added. New chain is nice and tight no pending possible:

For reassembling the timing chain cover i had to drop the oil pan. As some bolts are not accessible by normal means i had to build a "meter" long wrench:

The current setup:

To be continued..

today managed to rebuild the vacuum system. 20 meters of hoses stayed in the box, as they are not needed anymore. hopefully i was able to plug all the vacuum holes. will see when starting up the engine. Also the ignition system was put in place. But as i had to move the starter relay (i think it's called like this) to fit the ignition box, the power cable ended up to being too short to reach the battery. But all the shops were already closed. So have to wait until tomorrow to see if i can shout "It's Alive". Left the camera to the garage today, so there might be some pictures tomorrow if take my camera back home.

For tomorrow there is one more task to connect the throttle linkage, as i can't take the connecting nob from the old carb. Will have to fabricate something.

Now a question for the audience. Does anyone know what does the ac actuator do? There is no place ion the new carb to mount it. Wondering if i can just solder the wires together or should i put a resistor instead of this plugin.

Any ideas, how important this is?