Top plate of chasis

Had a little time left so marked the top plate ready to drill the hole for the gear shifter
marked the centre of the shifter and drilled a 90mm hole to give me plenty of room
filled smooth and refitted will be coming off again to fit some rubber round the hole and will be a lot easier to fill the gear box though the shifter hole once the oil arrives.
 Note Manual gearbox but needs ATF dextron III oil 4 litres.

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Filled out and temp fitted

cooling system part 1

Fitted the radiator  but didn't have the fixing kit (2 bits of pipe!) so used 16mm grommets which seemed to work so I could figure out haw the pipe work went.
Again Dales blog to the rescue
And I realised that the header tank needs rivnuting  to the cross member ,used 8mm rivnuts  and made sure the pipe was in line from the engine .

Header tank fitted with pipes still loose

Then it was just a simple task to fit the other side again only loose as it will all have to come off when I collect the heater pipes .

Pipe fitted but will need trimming level

 

Fitting the Cooling Fan

I Bought the fan from GD together with the kit and it was a 16inch one that can fit in front or behind.
After studying thermo dynamics on the internet and confusing my self it doent appear to matter were the fan goes but slight favour to the fan sucking the air though !!


 So I decided to fit one fan behind the radiator.

Mounting the fan

 The kit comes with 2 stainless bars pre drilled for pop rivets and has bolts welded for the fan

The principle is to fix the bars to the radiator, then fix the fan to the bars.
First issue I had was the fan has curved blades and clearly marked as "pushing"  but I wanted to suck
so simple job of reversing the blades  


Blades reversed and now will suck to the cardboard

Next the cheek nipping bit. I fitted the fan to the bars  placed the fan in the middle of the rad marked the position of the bars and drilled the holes corresponding to the holes already drilled at the end of each bar onto the radiator frame. All the blogs I have read say that you cant go into the radiator but it looked to me like there was a chance so very carefully drilled the holes and fitted pop rivets .

Engine work

Started fitting things to the engine to reduce the boxes !
Started with the alternator easy job with the supplied spacers to keep everything in line

Alternator fitted top bolt and spacer can be seen

Followed by the tensioner

Thought this was a good time to swap the thermostat housing over so removed the angled one carefully as to save the thermostat inside and simple case of fitting the new unit

Only goes on 1 way due to a little cut out

 And then the belt
Easiest way I found was to put a spanner on the tensioner to hold the spring while fitting the belt

Followed by the Starter motor

Gearbox mounts

Had issues with the gearbox mounting but an M12 Tap sorted that out and all fitted fine

Gearbox mount with the M12 bolts Loctite in

When I measured the gearbox to make sure that it was central in the frame I found that is was over to the LHS this I thought would present a problem as the gearshift is not level anyway so this would only make it worse .
Problem sorted by slackening everything off again and lifting the engine up slightly to rejig it until it was in the centre ,
The engine mountings are suplyed with 3 washers assuming for spacing as there is a gap between the mountings and the bolt ,when I had my enging in line I had uneven gaps on the mountings .double checking the mesurments and the gear box was within 1/64 " and the engine was level and centrered .so not moving that and ended up with a washser at the front on the RHS and washer at the rear on the LHS.

Enginee mounting tight with washer spacing at the front