All Alloy Cup progress

[AllAlloyCup]

Spent the morning making tonneau templates as I was
waiting for Ruairidh to come to investigate a bad noise at the back of the engine.

We had the engine out in 15 minutes.

Turned out to be a slack flywheel as I had not bolted it up heavily enough.

I was surprised how long a breaker bar pole, plus
A clever custom clamp and Ruairidh’s considerable strength 
Was put into tightening the crankshaft nut.

But then he noticed  there was not quite enough clearance on the rear bearing cover bolts
you know the ones with thinner heads that I should have bought,.

As I had no flywheel puller, I phoned Neil , my Cup companion from further west in the Borders
So we then had a visit to see Neil’s lwb Cup and picked up the puller, then drove back to repeat
the Charles Atlas technique of tightening flywheels.

Once bolted up Ruairidh dropped the engine in making it all look so easy, for some!

Ruairidh also spotted that many of the cotter pins on my Cup
, clutch pedal and brake levers were the wrong way round.
Reversing the clutch pedal one made a big improvement
to the clutch travel making gears easier to engage.

As an encore he decided  to also adjust my rear brakes so that the 
car was then driveable.

Some fun was then had driving up and down our lane to check all was well.

Altogether a very productive day and I am now much indebted to Ruairidh’s
Expertise given so generously , particularly as it
Was the first day of his family holiday!

Watch this thread for some videos coming up!

Lots of adjustments still needed but tomorrow will get the car insured 
and off SORN.

Regards

Bill G 
Aka AllAlloyCup