Sunday, 25 September 2011
Monday, 26 September 2011
Birthday conundrum
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You may recall that a few days ago I got the historic data from the good fellows at Classic Car Heritage Team, giving a build date for Sally in 1967.
Now Philip Porter, reputedly the oracle for all things E type, in his book "Collector's Originality Guide", says the S1.5 cars were made between January and December 1968.
Most confusing.
Mark at CCHT has very kindly sent me a scan of the original hand written leger entry for my car.
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Sunday, 25 September 2011
Busy Sunday
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The sun is coming up quite early and having woken at 6am I decided to put in a solid day in the shed.
Today I have achieved a lot:
- removed the old steering rack and fitted the new one; despite my trepidation it fitted perfectly
- fitted the new tie rod ends, which seem to be possibly the wrong part
- changed the lower steering universal joint; it was fun hammering out the old caps
- removed, cleaned and refitted all of the front brake pipes; then realised that they didn't need to be reversed, so put them back the right way
- fitted the new braided front brake hoses
- refitted the rebuilt front brake calipers; not sure of the torque settings for the 1/2" bolts so guessed 60 ftlb
- refitted the rebuilt brake vacuum servo
- cleaned the lower steering column ready for painting
It really is very satisfying opening bags and boxes with new parts in them and putting them on the car.
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