Well I know the theme of this build is slow progress but I legitimately didn’t think it’d been well over a year already since my last post, so this will come as much of a surprise to me as I’m sure it will to you. :roll: :lol:
I’ve taken full advantage of the lockdown and being an “essential worker” to get the rear brake conversion done. So on good Friday I attacked it with gusto and felt good about taking a step in the right direction and was almost immediately punched in the face with a set back, or more accurately 3 set backs.
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So I firstly discovered that the drivers rear inner arch has taken up a side job as a Cheshire cheese impressionist and is crumbling in front of my eyes as I tackle the second problem of the brake union being tighter than a tight thing at the world championship being tight contest, not to mention the copper line being a bit twisted by the person who replaced it for an MOT before I came to own the disaster, sorry, car.
With those problems ignored and solved, respectively, I powered on and it all went fine until I’d uncovered a cock up so monumental that a passing historian fainted with the thought of recording this moment in the annals of cocking things up. I’d somehow managed to order the wrong bolts to mount the hubs to the axle and got totally the wrong thread and length, even though in all my job notes and list of parts to order I’d got the right ones written down. And it’s not as though I can just use the ones that were in there because they are extended ones for use with spacers. Anyway I had a dig around and managed to find 8 bolts that would fit so I could at the very least get the car back on it’s wheels for the time being and I can order the correct bolts.
Once everything was back together and bled up it works a treat, after some adjustment of the handbrake cables of course. So next up is to finish the front brakes (braided lines and track discs and pads) and then it’s the big job - engine swap!
As you can see I totally forgot to take pictures but I’ll get some snaps when the fronts are done as well.
Until next time