A number of worrying jobs had accumulated. Worrying in that they could be catastrophic if left forgotten, so this week I've put new nyloc nuts on the suspension bolts & torqued them, I've put oil in the engine (still needs coolant though) & that sort of thing.
Today as
it was dry for the first time in a couple of weeks I rolled the car out of the
garage & assembled the clutch cable – always a faff, as you need two arms
in the space of one, but I got there in the end & joy of joys, the pedal
now needs about ½ the pressure it needed before with the Zetec clutch (for those that haven't kept up, the FWD Escort flywheel was re-drilled to take a Pinto clutch). This was
one of the main aims of the stip-down so I’m very pleased.
I
moved on to the throttle pedal & cables, first of all I drilled the pedals - well it's the sort of thing I just do, after a bit of Dremelling the throttle cable’s now working nicely, so it
just needs the exhaust & some coolant & I could start it 😊.
As a finale, I did a few
jobs that’d been left, like tidying up the wiring under the airbox, putting the
air feed pipe back on & tightening the alternator mounting bolt.
Major jobs
still waiting:-
Engine bay belly pan, Bleed
the brakes, Boot lid
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