November 2011

Bye bye IRS

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Today 3 men came and took my IRS away.  I wonder if I'll ever see it again...

 

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A Visitation

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This morning the gurus arrived.  At 9.30 sharp Chris and Alan arrived, along with Marty and my mate Ron.  Chris and Alan restore E Types and Marty fixes electrics. He had just finished my windscreen wiper motor.

An inspection was made, coffee and buns were consumed.  I asked many questions:

"How do I get the driver's side door to open?"  I asked.  I haven't been able to open it using the door handle since I got the car.  "Have you tried using the key to unlock it?"  said Alan.  Bugger me, it worked.  Why didn't I think of that?

Marty discussed the wiring.  Alan nodded knowingly.

After talking to Chris I'm going to bite the bullet and take off the IRS. I'll take it up to him and get him to fully recondition it and put in a 3.07 diff.  I wasn't going to but once its done I'll never have to touch it again.  He's got the tools to get the bearings out of the hub carriers and knows stuff about shims. Hopefully I can do the disassembly and help put it back together too.

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Clutch

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In my neverending quest to purge the hydraulics of evil, I finally took the clutch slave off today.

It doesn't sound much but it's in a bugger of a spot to get to and I had half convinced myself that it would be OK.

Removal was easier than expected, predominantly because the last person who'd been there had obviously been unable to reinstall it on both studs and had solved that problem by removing the really hard to get at stud so that there was only one holding the cylinder in place.  Good thing I checked.

The cylinder looked pretty clean on the outside but when disassembled is (a) scored inside by rust and (b) missing some internal parts!  New one required.

Another $50 to Mr Barratt.

Ho hum.  Given that every piece of hydraulics I have looked at so far has been completely stuffed I think I'm not going to have any choice but to take off the IRS and overhaul the rear calipers. Bugger.

 

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Waiting waiting

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Proceedings are on hold until I get the dash panels back from the trimmer.  Hopefully in the next week or so. Bloody frustrating; I'm not a waiting kind of guy. 

Mind you I'm not looking forward to the electrical part of the conversion at all.  A bolt you can see, and tighten with a spanner.  But electrons; well they're a different kettle of subatomic particle altogether.

I still have the clutch slave cylinder to inspect, and I probably should remove the IRS and have a good look at the rear brakes.

Ron and Marty are popping by on Thursday morning to inspect the lay of the land vis a vis the electrics.  Marty is rebuilding my windscreen wiper motor and knows about stuff.

I'll keep you all posted.

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Reassembly going well

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Whenever you read the manual, any job on the engine, front suspension etc always starts with the phrase "first, remove the radiator".

The logical extension of this is that the last step of any job is to put it back in.

So it is with great trepidation that I put it back in and connected up all the new hoses.  I just know that I'll end up having to take it out again, which is why I've prevaricated so long.

Anyway, it's done.  I haven't filled it with coolant though...

 

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