Susan by Tristared

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...and it's in!

I do have a trim ring that covers the six bolt heads, somewhere. Not sure if it's needed.

10-25-2012

Electric water pump has now been completed, with the finishing off of the adapter plate/bracket.

It's a Nardi part..

Part # 4300.00.4302

11-6-2012

A week off work, sadly not to sit on a beach and continue my ridding the world of gin.

I realised half way through my engine rebuild that putting it back in the car with the engine would look ridiculous.

So…

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

I did manage to get the engine in – but I was too cold and tired to take any photos

Next Sunday – there will be some key turning.


Nothing will happen, obviously - but I’ll give it a go.

I used a paint and varnish stripper from Wickes - absolute waste of time. Apparently all strippers have gone this way, including Nitromors which I would have used.

Dichloromethane has been made illegal – this was what gave strippers their bite, so to speak (some people died using it on an enamel bath – or something).

An industrial looking wire brush and a small Bosch angle grinder worked the best, and then a couple of grades of emery paper.

Just thinking back – the amount of congealed oil around the base of the turrets was just staggering, no wonder the engine bays don’t rust, I had 2 inches of this thick black, obnoxious substance that just wouldn’t go away.

Did Ford own an oil company in the 60’s?

I must have used an entire 5l bottle of detergent and boiled the kettles 30 times to get it all out.

A steam cleaner would have been the way to go, but could I find one?  

HSS have 4 in the whole country.

So that's 1 for every 15.5m people...