December 2019
this by connecting a lot longer bleed
hose to the bottom cylinder, and taping
the out end to a support, which was
higher than the top reservoir fill point.
This meant that any air coming out of
the bottom cylinder, went up the hose ,
and out to the atmosphere, and if you
closed the bleed valve off too late, it
didn,t matter, because the cylinder
could only draw back fluid, not air. Take
your time, and don,t forget to top up the
top cylinder, before you completely
empty it.
I won,t talk about the difficulty one has
when removing the master clutch cylin-
der assembly from the bracket that it is
fixed to…... Firstly, remove the master
cylinder brake and clutch cover, then
remove the brake and clutch pedals,
take out the clutch cylinder front mount-
ing bolts, then lift the clutch cylinder up
and away from the bracket, ONLY far
enough so as to be able to undo the
clutch cylinder feed line nut, at the back
of the cylinder, DON,T round the cor-
ners of the nut, with the wrong span-
ner—must be a good fit, because the
nut will be tighter than a…….!!
In the end, I found it easier to remove
the bracket nuts, which are situated up
under the dash panel inside the car,
then remove the bracket as well……if
you,ve got big mits….best of luck
matey!!!
The winscreen washer didn,t work—the
silly push the button until it works thing,
or get the wife to do it , before you have
a prang. Not a good idea, so bought a
little 12 volt electric washer motor and
bottle, and connected it up to a live wire
under the dash, modified the push but-
ton arrangement so it became a push
button electric switch---cool—push the
button ( that looks like the original),
starts the pump motor, water is on the
windscreen. My heads getting very
heavy lately…..
The odometer didn,t work either. Took
the speedo out, disassembled, found
that the little sprocket on the end of the
odometer shaft was stripped—no
teeth…hand made a new sprocket—
very carefully, refitted to shaft with sol-
der—bit tricky—works good.
Speedo needle was jumping all over the
place—wouldn,t give correct speed,
ordered and replaced speedo cable—is
good, is Chris!!
Indicators dicky—sometimes indicating,
sometimes not, bought new can, now
indicators work ok—but….little green
indicator arrows in the dash console will
blink strong and bright for first blink, but
dull after that??? I need to get that
looked at as well..
Replaced glovebox inner. Centre
speaker console cover made of tin and
painted black?? Threw it away—bought
and replaced with proper gold coloured
mesh screen—just like 007!!
Has new inertia seat belts—red ones!!
Seats have been recovered—not just
plain black anymore—they have red
piping in them now….old seat covers
were falling to bits, looked shabby..
I also felt that I was sitting in the car a
bit too low, so I made up some new tim-
ber supports that go under the seat run-
ners, about 50 mm higher. Is better for
Sue and I but I,ve got to be careful not
to get my knees stuck under the steer-
ing wheel, getting in and out of the car.
Bought a carpet kit for the boot, in-
cluded a carpet spare wheel cover..
Bought and fitted all new finishers inside
the cockpit—you know—the things that
make the ends of things look good—like
at the ends of the door weather seals
etc. New door weather seals too…
Had to make a new right hand door top
pad. The wood underneath was falling
apart, so copied and made a new
piece, then recovered it with some black
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