Susan by Tristared

2 minute(s) of a 45 minute read

I’ve had the engine out to check how well the bearings have bedded in and freshen up the paint work, I‘ve also decided to resurrect my electric water pump idea I chickened out of in fear of failure…

...and to fit some copper head gaskets I had made up. I can now perform headwork without having to buy any new gaskets!

It’ll all be going back in on Sunday…









On a side note…

I managed to track down an early cheese grater grill…



This has now been stripped and sent off to my (now good) friends at RFI screening to be ‘virgin brown fused alumina 70/100’ blasted. This will remove all the paint and provide an excellent foundation for primer.

The headlight adjusters will be blasted and zinc sprayed.



I’m not a fan of round headlights with wing mounted side indicators so I’m going to adapt some MG Midget sidelight/indicator combo units as they’re as close to the originals Hella’s as I can find that are easily available (I understand that the Hella units are now extinct). I’m in the process of tracking down some flat bumper bracket irons...