Easter Bank Holiday Working.

Another great weekends work which began with a lovely day on Good Friday.....good sunshine which meant we could potter around in and around the Garage.

The first items on the list to sort out were the various plates for the engine and gearbox mounting areas, and the sumps for both the reserve and original engines. The reserve engine is going to be used for the moment to put my car back on the road as the budget i have is to finish the car and not to rebuild the original at this current time so that one has been coated in protective oil and wrapped.

We then started by painting the reserve block in a satin black still gives it some shine but its the part of the engine that isn't going to be seen much anyway I'll go more for colouring on the proper engine once it has been rebuilt as I'll most likely specify a ford blue for the block during/after rebuild.

The block is now painted in its first coat of satin enamel paint and since this set of pictures were taken, the engine has had the current timing wheel taken off and the front plate removed also, so we were able to get in and finish the paint up on the front too. Our next job with this engine will be to get the heads machined for unleaded and cleaned with new valve guides installed also. Into view on the right is dads V6 Marcos which we also swapped the old solenoid out for a brand new one, for a long period of time now it has suffered with niggly starting from cold and restarting after use Id often go to fill up at a petrol station and embarrassingly it would fail to start again so this is another electrical item we have sorted only thing next to do is swap her over to electric ignition which it still doesnt have we also have an oil change and sump plug repair/replacement to do as currently a larger than average volume of oil is seeping out and onto the floor which is requiring a great deal of cement powder to soak up.

Anyway, moving on, I have turned my attention to getting the gearbox sorted so the main body of it has a section that is more prone to rust than the rest of it so I have decided to give that a nice glossy coat of Hammerite to protect and make it look great for the re-installation when eventually that part happens it all depends on how much longer the bodywork repair takes.

Below picture shows the paintwork (Black) that has been done, the remaining silver areas will be thoroughly cleaned through and remaining dust removed.

There is also a large gear shift knob that we have to modify also, it originally had a standard gear knob with a cable coming out of the gearbox for the overdrive, we have decided to buy a triumph Gear knob that has the overdrive selector on the knob itself to avoid having to put your fingers elsewhere during driving this means a hole will need to be drilled down through the top of the gear stalk and a further hole drilled diagonally to let the cable in to go up to the switch. it will also make for a tidier appearance.

In addition we have a series of plates to go around the engine and the gearbox mounting area these are all a bit grubby and are going to be re-powder coated to ensure that everything is loooking new for re-assembly all in the aid of working through the to do list while the car is away so that we can just fit everything together when it returns I'll degrease those next weekend.

Well, that's about it for this weekend more next time! ;) Thanks for reading.