Saturday, January 30, 2016

Its back.

I drove the G home today from the mechanic, about 5km. Considering it has not been driven for 20 something years it went OK. I went through all the gears and the box was quiet and direct. It needs a wheel alignment but it appeared to drive straight.
I spent most of the day putting things back together that the auto electrician had removed and cleaned a lot of dust out of the boot (trunk). The water temp gauge is not working so I will need to look at that, also I will need to replace the NOS water pump with a new one I have. I think the fellow who repaired the gauges set the speedo to KPH as I was doing 60mph on the speedo and was actually doing no more than 60kph.
Here are the up to date photos showing the completed car 4 years after I started.
From this in 2012.
 Passed roadworthy inspection ready for registration.



 Dash is incomplete at the moment as I have to check
why the temp gauge is not working.

New or reconditioned parts that have let me down.

Now that the G is almost finished I will share the parts that have let me down in the past few weeks.

  1. New old stock water pump. Leaking and noisy bearing.
  2. Reconditioned Starter motor. Top bush not replaced.
  3. Reconditioned brake master cylinder. Allowed fluid past the caps.
  4. New fuel pump. Hit on the manifolds.
  5. Rebuilt tacho. Not working
  6. New temp gauge. Not working.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

It lives.

There has been a few problems over the past few weeks, the latest being the starter motor. The starter was rebuilt like everything else from the wheel bearings to the wiring harness.
The engine was winding slowly so the starter was removed and checked finding the brass bush on the shaft was worn and out of shape allowing the armature to hit the windings. The bush was replaced and the starter re fitted. The starter was tested on the engine and found to be working correctly and to the point the engine fired up and ran nicely for the first time in 20 odd years.
I tried to upload a video however it wouldn't work for some reason. I should have the G home soon for a final tidy up and registration.