Can you tell I'm proud?
OK, so I needed a bracket for the speed sensor. GBS do one for £13 but, hey, why buy one when...? So, from my sheet of ally I bought before, magic!
Lurverly....
I've riveted it to the drivers side tunnel and roughly fitted the speed sensor after putting a single bolt into the propshaft for reference:
I had a bit of a panic with the propshaft - I was told the end with 8 holes connected to the diff but that has a larger flange than the other end and it is too big to fit through the chassis rails:
I've turned it round and I'll just have to confirm with GBS that it's OK. There's no way it's going in the other way unless I can trim a few mm of the flange which is probably not a great thing.
Also trimmed and fitted the gearbox mount:
I've also managed to borrow an engine crane from Jon on the RHOCAR forum - many thanks Jon and to the 3 others who so kindly offered their cranes. Didn't realise the darn thing was so big:
Finally, I cut the original air inlet manifold to free up the bit I need to keep and re-use. I was planning on smoothing it down myself but I think GBS can do it for £20 or so and they'll do a much better job, so I might send it off to them.
Badly need to get the engine in - almost nothing else I can do until then. Now that I've got the crane, I can make a start on the sump. The only problem is finding the space to get the engine on the crane - my driveway is gravel so the crane won't roll on it.
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