Managed another couple of half days on the car. Getting to the point where a load of small tidy up jobs are being done. List of jobs done.
First up was a weeping brake pipe connection to the master cylinder. I had tried tightening a couple of times, but still weeped some fluid overnight. Turned out to be a bit of an own goal. I removed the the pipe and found the brake pipe union was the correct thread but wrong type. There are two types of ends to the unions, one is concave at the end and the other is flat. You need the appropriate tool to form the flare on the pipe to suit. My tool is for the concave type, but I had accidentally put a flat union onto the pipe so the flare had been distorted and not happy, hence the weep. Correct union installed and fresh flare, bleed that section of circuit and no more leaking.
Modified the valve spring compressor to accommodate the spring cap on the head as it needed opening out. Now works well.
Painted the adjusters for the track rod and some bits of bare metal in the engine bay I had missed.
Fitted the push fit connectors for the rubber boots which go around the steering rack arms.
Test fitted the under bonnet cover. This was a new one originally from Mark which Neil had surplus to his needs and I bought a few years back. It is designed for the later bonnet, but just needs a few extra screw holes and cut out for the two bonnet retainers on early ones.
I noticed my door window glass when closed had a small gap on the leading edge. So to adjust I had to remove the door card etc to get to the two bolts which allow adjustment. I was not looking forward to removing the door card as a fair few bits to remove, but it came off and went back together fairly easily thankfully. A bit of trial and error and the glass fits a lot better. The other door glass I managed to get right first time.....
Next was fitting the two front inner wheel arch removable panels. These are held in via self tappers into nylon clips. I used stainless screws and washers to hopefully make them last!
Last job was drilling the two small holes in each of the front wings to accommodate the wing indicators. The wings are fibreglass and have the large hole already, but not the two holes for the fixing screws. After some careful measuring a pilot hole followed by 5mm drill gave a nice snug fit. I also ordered some stainless nuts to help with keeping them ‘undoable’ if needed.
Peter
