TURVEY TOPSY

Good friends Lorna and Martin arrived on Thursday evening for dinner, in fact we were expecting them on Friday, but fortunately a call from Lorna at 6pm on Thursday to confirm time of arrival made us realise our mistake. Jacquie pulled out all the stops and conjured up a very tasty meal, but as it was getting dark when they arrived, they where immediately pressed into action.

This time the chassis not only had to be flipped up the right way, but turned around so that the front of the car is at the front of the garage, leaving more room for fitting the front suspension and engine. No problems, but it did seem heavier this time, although the trestles could all be in a straight line as it was just the flat bottom that was resting on them. Thanks guys, but I will need considerable more man-power when the next time comes to lift it off the trestles, but a long way to go yet.

The front wheels and suspension parts are some way off, so on the Friday I spent more time with the donor bike and now the gear linkage, clutch, speedo and tacho cables plus all oil breather pipes electrical connections, are all disconnected ready to drop the engine out. Lots more scrappy bits of paper have been sellotaped in place to remind me what goes where when it all goes back together.

I have ordered from Ebay a 1 ton engine crane which should arrive by this coming Wednesday, so hopefully on Thursday I will have the engine out and on Friday I can do a trial fit in the car, exciting!!!!!