Sunday 28 August 2022

Saturday 27th August - Preparation work continues - But not on my car.

 Fellow Team Spotlight members Dave Harvey and Richard Warr were in town this weekend so that we could do some prep work on Richards car. Dave arrived on Thursday afternoon with Richard following on the Friday. Needless to say beer was involved although not too much as we had work to do. 

The first job on Saturday morning was to remove the trailing arms and driveshafts from the car so that Richard could fit his newly acquired 15 x 7 genuine minilite wheels. The offset on these meant that these wheels wouldn't fit on the standard Mk2 rear axle set up, so it was being changed to the Mk1 set up instead. Whilst I was doing this, Dave Harvey re-tuned the carburrettors as we had both noticed that Richards car wasn't quite running on song when it arrived. 

While Dave was doing his tuning, he also noticed that both engine mounts were completely broken and that the engine had moved about three inches to the left and dropped onto the steering rack as well. Not good!

I got the trailing arms and drive shafts finished off,  then after a cup of tea, we jacked up the front of the car and worked at replacing the engine mounts. This was quite hard work and at one stage I thought we were going to have to take the bonnet off and set my engine crane up to support the engine. Luckily though, after about two hours of sweating, swearing, manoeuvring, swearing, levering and more swearing, we managed to move the engine back over and fit some decent replacement engine mounts. This was a totally unplanned job that had used up a lot of time, but was totally necessary. Especially with the car venturing around Europe in a weeks time.

Richard was more than pleased with the repairs and also with how the car looks on its new wheels. We had a quick photo session before ordering a Chinese takeaway and then visiting the pub to celebrate. 




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