ha.. the wife, who seldom cooks.. its my kitchen if I want good food... powered up the oven today.. I came in.... "did you leave the iron on the ironing board?"
"NO.. ITS STILL LEFT OVER FROM YOU BAKING ROVER PARTS!!!"
Ha ha.. It cleared up after the first few minutes.
SO, put on my servo today. Bigger hammer didn't really do the trick properly.
When I got the pin out, the end of it was both peened over a bit AND bulged out a bit from all the pounding. Had to file it back to shape. ALSO, it bent my pedal. Of course I couldn't notice it till trying to put it back together and the pin wouldnt line up.
SO, I Popped a cylindrical pry bar into the hole and pried it a bit. Which slipped and broke my clutch line.
I fixed the clutch line (for how long I dont know but the fixtures on it are british right? will they adapt properly if I get parts at the store?
ANYWAY.. its all back together now.. more work than it needed to be. Its getting liberally greased. I also filed out the holes so it wouldnt fit quite so tightly.
Now I just need to check/rebuild all the wheel cylinders.. and i'll be stopping like a pro.
No brakes didnt stop me from trying out my distributor adjustments. I think it'll make 60+ now. Its amazing.. everything i buy is always set roughly TDC and running for crap and way to hot. eventually I notice the timing is way off and just "eyeball" the thing for a 50% hp gain.
I ought to start checking that first. Why do people always eff with the damn timing.
Anyway.. alls well that ends well. Was thinking about selling boxes on what would fail next. I'm skeptical as to getting it fully road worthy by fall..
If I can get the dam title.. stupid hawaii... "its pre 1981 so we need to see the vin number in person and take a rubbing for investigation" BS.
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