Fuel lines

We have acquired fuel lines and also the various bits to connect them to the engine. Also got Riv nuts and a riv nut tool that cost us R400 but at least we can do a proper job now.

Then on Saturday the old man managed to find an alternator for R200 although the mounting bracket is wrong, still to go is the oil pickup, dizzy and about a million rubber pipes for the vacuum sensors and cooling system.

I still get very scared when I think of all that needs to be done and how little I know about any of it. So far we have managed, so the aim of the game is slow but steady!

Prop Shafts

Here are the two types of Sierra Prop shaft. (A) being the correct one and (B) being the one I got from the scrappy. (B) is unsuitable because it has the rubber doughnut attached to the spline part, which is too wide to fit in the transmission tunnel.

There are a number of different ways to shorten the prop but we have chosen to remove the centre bearing and just have a UJ at each end.

This is what we are aiming for

Then in other news we trial fitted the front suspension for a bit of fun.

Front brake lines done.