Well today’s activities were more limited but then I was able to stand in front of a fan most of the time!
Engine Bay
I have wiped down the engine bay since the wiring harness is all out after yesterday’s work. Just some water and shop towels and it seems to have worked. I managed to get my hands into most of the corners and up front around the oil cooler etc. Even gave the “horns” a good dusting and along the fender/wing bolts area as well.
I also solved the side cover issue with a 23c bolt from Sears Hardware. They’re just down the road from me and always VERY helpful. I do like them in that store and will keep going there for sure.
Gearbox Oil
I then decided I would drain the gearbox as that hadn’t been done since I got the car home. No idea when it was last changed. It didn’t look too bad but it sure did smell bad (maybe gear oil, which is a mistake)! Yikes – not sure whether really old oil (or gear oil) or old gas smells worse. Anyway – only a small amount of oil on the floor this time as I didn’t try and drain this into a really small funnel like the first time I did this on my 77. Older and wiser (hopefully). Still I did mange to get about 3 shop towels worth on the container and floor – there just seems to be something about oil and me – oh well 🙂
Having drained it was time to fill. Thank goodness I’ve seen a bunch of posts on MG Experience about a top fill gearbox – oh what fun we (I) had. I had got one of them there funnels with a tube and a twist on/off flow from Wal-Mart but the tube wasn’t going to be long enough (and man is the fill hole small). I had bought a huge syringe type filler for the 77 and used its tube to make an extension. Got everything to work OK in the end but I have to wonder how many interiors got covered in oil by someone doing this and having a problem of one sort or another during the fill process?
Well that was all the B activity for today. Have some more VB parts arriving Monday and the new harness, K&N filters and a few other bits and pieces coming as well. I guess the next big job will be getting the new harness in sometime this coming week. Now working to a deadline of Sept 17 as that is the St. Louis All British Car show date and now my trip back to England is postponed for a month I’ll be able to go. Hopefully I’ll be entering both the 77 and the 72 if all goes well.
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