Well we have almost got to then end of our weeks holiday. We are not planning on doing any work on the buggy today other than putting it back in the corner till the wiring arrives and we have worked out where it needs to go.
We did complete a few more little bits yesterday, here is a quick list of what we did.
- As a sort of celebration we started up the engine again, this still involves connecting it to another car with jump leads and sticking the fuel line in a plastic fuel can, But it ran again and still sounds awesome. As a test we made sure that our throttle pedal and linkage worked and it does, we also tested that the clutch system works by putting it in gear and letting it pull itself up the drive a little.
- Following the engine tests i greased the gear shift mech as it was really stiff.
- Finished off the tin of hammerite covering up all the open metal from the weeks work, i also went round the outsides of the floor pan as we are planning to put metal plate down over them and we don’t want to see any black round the edges.
- Covered all the moving parts that couldn’t be painted in a thin layer of grease to stop them rusting.
Later on in the day I picked up the last part for the brake system, the drivers side front flexible line and tried fitting it onto the buggy.It went in ok only then to find that when it was mounted to the original bracket that you could not get full lock as the line wasn’t long enough and also that the solid line we had made up was only just long enough.
The answer to both these problems seemed fairly simple to me, the original bracket was in the wrong place. So out came the grinder and off it came, followed by a quick bit of fabrication from some steel plate and a spot of welding and we have a new bracket that holds the brake line in the right place. You can now go to full lock in both directions and everything is secured properly.
I didn’t take any photos as it was cold and raining but i will get a picture of the new bracket next time we are working on the buggy.
