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[venkman]

Phew!!! Taken best part of 3 days to get through all that, you've got me inspired to keep my 79 club man shell. Kept thinking about selling it as it turned out to be worse than I first thought!

Decided to keep plugging on, like yourself each time I remove a bit it ends up being a massive job and costing more but your getting there and its been a while so well done and keep pictures coming cause they help the inspiration!!

[SAL 821X]

Congrats for the 100th page post Venkman   Thanks for taking the time to read my adventure. I've felt the same a number of times believe me!

 

It really does feel that it's getting to the end of the road now.

[SAL 821X]

Few snaps from yesterday as photobucket wouldn't upload last night. 

 

Dry run fitting the exhaust which took a bit of head scratching. I didn't realise you have to cut the centre pipe down to fit the LCB and couldn't for the life of me work out what I was doing wrong. Got there in the end though ) 

 

Single box RC40 on Standard LCB. Hopefully you should hear it before you see it! 

 

 

 

 

Just needs unbolting again and refitting with sealant.

 

Before that though I got the fuel pump bolted in. Just need to get some hose and run a wire to the front to attach a 30 amp relay.

 

 

Then made a template for the switches and cuff off. Good job I did! as you can see my measuring is crap!   

 

 

Also dropped the windscreen rubber in ready for the screen.

 

 

My battery cable should arrive mid week so the next job is to lay that... Getting closure to trying to fire it up. 

[markyB]

Fantastic work mate , you are cracking on now ! Just a quick heads up, If you have fitted just one rear fog light its on the wrong side and Mr MOT man won't like it

Regards Mark.

[SAL 821X]

Bugger cheers Mark.

[markyB]

No probs, glad to be of help. If you have two they have to be one each side , if there is only one it has to be on the offside or central

[Mr Frosty]

Looking good.

Note taken on fog lamps as I would have done the same. 

Here goes the stupid questions.

Why electric fuel pump?

Do you have to run a return if not do you have to regulate the delivery pressure?

[SAL 821X]

As far as I'm aware electric fuel pumps feed the fuel at a more constant rate over mechanical pumps. You're also less likely to get fuel seepage into the oil from a knackered seal.

 

I'm sure it probably has little advantage on a mild tune road engine but every little helps I guess. 

 

Some run with fuel regulators some without. I will run it with a couple filters to start and see how it goes. 

 

Ordered some more parts this morning so hopefully they turn up by the weekend.

[SAL 821X]

5 metres of battery cable arrived yesterday   just waiting on the terminals and it will be time to get the van some power. 

 

Just hope my 13 year old battery is still good or might have to buy a new one. 

 

Another question I thought of is what oil should I use for the running in period? 

 

Do I use decent stuff straight away even though I will change the oil after a few hundred miles running it in.

[Mr Frosty]

I ran my 1000 in on mineral oil for 100 miles or so then went on to Mobil 1

Ozz  who did the tricky bits of the rebuild said it would not bed in if the good stuff first. 

[Archived1]

100 page thread must be a record? Looks great, well done

[SAL 821X]

I ran my 1000 in on mineral oil for 100 miles or so then went on to Mobil 1

Ozz  who did the tricky bits of the rebuild said it would not bed in if the good stuff first. 

 

That's what I thought. Didn't really want to spunk 40quid on oil for it to be replaced after a few hundred miles. 

[Mini Manannán]

Here you go SAL: http://www.classic-o...-Running-In-Oil  just the job.

[SAL 821X]

Interesting thanks MM but equally as expensive as the specific classic oil. 

 

I not just run it in on standard 15w-40 castrol that you can get on offer in ASDA?

[Mr Frosty]

I would ???