What have you done in your garage...?

I know exactly what you mean about the couple of hours - when I changed my wheelbarrow wheel the bolts were seized up something rotten. Took ages to get the shaft out.

Oh, the car...? Blimey, good work!

Very nice indeed Paul.

On a related matter - I was a little unhappy with the crusty rusty wing bracket (which seems common) so made up my own.
Drilled out the rivets, replaced with rubber well nuts and stainless M3 button head bolts and finished off with an inlay of Viton to stop the stay end 'grinding' off the paintwork (though I think I have seen some original brackets with a lower piece).






Pics of the original nut wells - the final rubber head thickness was reduced to 1mm.


Final bracket with Viton rubber inlay

Thanks Paul - sourced the M3s from here -http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151850146231?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
though plenty of options online, and cheaper am sure. The head was not perfect for the job so had to slice through with a scalpel to reduce thickness. Impressed with the nuts nontheless, and easily removable too. Drill hole for these were 6.5mm.

Brake servo vacuum hose snapped when it was moved to get better access to the manifold.
I wonder how good the fuel hoses are?

Finally finished the Subaru power steering mod.

It all works with no leaks

Time to resurect this thread.

Also time to take this lump out again to get rid of those noisy pistons. Started first thing this morning. Engine now out on the bench awaiting strip down tomorrow.

Its that chatter on the overrun Peter at about 1500 / 1700 rpm. The 5ltr's are famous for it. Consensus is that it is piston to pin so hopefully new pistons and pins will sort it; well they better had Cant put up with it any longer.

Think i'm going for Powers 885 cam as
well whilst im in there.