One of my least favorite tasks is cleaning parts but the reward is reassembly with clean parts, and today was devoted to cleaning the engine bay and as many parts as my back could stand. The time to clean the engine bay is obviously when the engine is out so this morning I was in the engine bay scrapping and washing the engine rails and as much of the firewall that I could reach. To me it looks better but to the uninitiated? Hope so....
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| I had to struggle to find pictures that might be interesting today, can you tell the old ones from the new? |
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| In need of new motor mounts |
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| I decided to lube the windscreen wiper gear box while I had access, the old grease was pretty dry. |
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| Passenger side frame rails, you can tell that they are body colored at least |
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| Drivers side |
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| Firewall |
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| Copper washers can be reused if they are annealed, their are copper washers under the cam cover nuts and any place else that is exposed to oil. These washers have been annealed and will be cleaned before re-using. |
That's it for today, not sure I'll post a blog tomorrow as it will likely be more of the same :-(
Cheers,
Lynn
6.5 hrs (of misery ;-)
Lots of good things going on at Casa Gardner. I'm sure the engine bay is going to look much better after the cleaning and new parts. I know those fabric covered wiring looms and vacuum hoses are really hard to clean unless they are off the car -- and it isn't always easy to get the hoses off. The good news is that if the leaks are fixed or minimized the engine bay should stay fairly clean and I bet it looks great with the perfect amount of patina.
ReplyDeleteHi Drew,
ReplyDeleteIt's more "hurry up and wait" than anything. Thanks for your comment!
Cheers,
Lynn