Installing ancillary's, reassembling the front suspension

Hi There,

Yesterday I worked a little bit on fixing something that I did last time I had Jennifer's car here,  I was having a very hard time finding hose that would work for the line from the brake reservoirs to the slave and master cylinders.  Well, I had the bright idea of using silicone hose as I thought it would be impervious to DOT 4 brake fluid-NOT!  When Jennifer brought her car back over this winter for me to replace the clutch I noticed that the fluid level had dropped in the reservoirs just a slight bit, turns out the it was weeping through the sides of the hose.  This time around I ordered some hose from SNG that should do the trick.

Today I reassembled the front suspension and installed the heat shields, exhaust manifolds, alternator and a few other little tidbits.

Suspension had to be released to allow the torsion bar plate to come out, which had to come out to get the engine/transmission out.

Hooking it all back together requires a good floor jack to over come the torsion bar.

Front suspension back in place with loosely fastened bolts on the rubber components-they will be tightened once the car is in a loaded position (carrying the weight of the front end).

Installing the rear exhaust manifold-tedious as the nuts are challenging to get to.

Front manifold on, and alternator installed.

Notes for the day and a few check off's that I'll have to take care of.

Gaskets are supposed to arrive tomorrow but may be tied up with family things so this may be it for the week, stay tuned for further developments ;-)

Cheers,

Lynn

6.5 hrs