So, not having time during the week, I geared myself up to get the fuel tank finished on the Green Cortina and also rebuild and refit the brake callipers on the Lotus Cortina.
Getting the tank finished on the Green Cortina went well and before long I was refilling it with petrol to make sure there were no leaks and that everything was good. The only small issue is that because it's a Mk2 tank, I've had to use the Mk2 Sender unit and therefore it no longer matches with the fuel gauge in the car and gives a false reading. (It reads way too high- I'll address this at a later date)
With this done I then moved onto rebuilding the brake callipers. The first job was to fit new seals into the callipers and this is where it all went wrong. Upon trying the new seals that were supplied in a rebuild kit, I found that they were too small! Bugger! The box of seal replacements I bought had P14 seals in instead of P16 seals. (Even though the box said P16)
So, that was the calliper rebuild buggered then. With nothing more I could do, I called it a day and went indoors and set about ordering the correct seals from the internet!
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