Evening You All,
Today the transmission and engine were reunited and along the way the clutch/pressure plate were installed. Then the stabilizer was mounted and the starter cleaned up and inspected.
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| New clutch plate |
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| Mounting the clutch and pressure plate on the flywheel. |
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| If you look closely you may be able to see the alignment 'pins' that I have made to align the bell housing. This is alway a little bit of a challenge as one doesn't want to put the clutch plate in a bind which could warp the clutch plate and the pins help keep everything aligned. |
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| The bolts are then inserted and tightened down 1 turn at a time to close the 'gap' evenly |
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| Once the transmission was mounted I checked the action of the release bearing by clamping down the clutch fork to make sure it released, a good place to check that all is as it should be so far. |
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| Just decided to take a picture of the engine number to show that it is a matching number car, same with the transmission. |
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| These are the bolts for installing the clutch slave cylinder, as you can see I've replaced the studs with allen headed screws which are easier to get at for servicing. |
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| Cleaning up and inspecting the starter which needs to be mounted next, the minimum lenght for the brushes according to the manual are 5/16ths", Jennifer's are a little over 9/16th's so should be good for a few more years. |
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| Starter installed and bolts torqued to 25 ft/lbs |
Well, that's all for this week, thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Lynn
5 hrs
Lots more good work, I see. Looking good!
ReplyDeleteMy day was short as I broke my RH drip rail chrome and will need to order a new one from SNG. I'm pretty bummed out about that. It got bent at the plater and my forcing it to fit resulted in a crack. Live and learn, I guess. The good news is that the LH side was glued on successfully. From the left-hand side the car looks great. :-)
Hi Drew, Really sorry to hear that it cracked! I don't really see a lesson there Drew, other than perhaps you can do everything right and sometimes no matter what the cards fall the other way, or put more succinctly "S__t Happens"?
DeleteHope to have the engine back in next week.
Cheers,
Lynn