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brakes sorted! thanks all for your advice
literally around the block and a new issue has raised its head...exhaust manifold is cactus and the car sounds like a tractor under throttle.
i couldnt believe it... totally different car rolls out of the garage than rolls back in
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new gasket or ...

Sitting for a while, then running them again sounds like a pitted slave/master cylinder passing fluid past the cups. Don't ask me how I know.

Sweep the garage floor, park it and pump the brakes up a few times. Pull the wheels and drums, and see of there is any leaks. Should find it. If its not ...

so.... a coupe of weeks after breathing a bit of life into the old girl and a few drives, the to do list is starting to develop...with a priority on safety.
been stuffing around with a heater install but that may need to go on hold as yesterday i discovered the brake fluid dropped from full to 10mm ...

i suspect its just as it comes straight outta da box Harv... the mech that installed it with the motor rebuild years ago is a mech to avoid and steer well clear of. I had to have lots of work on it since the motor was rebuilt, oil leaks front and rear, the valve train was way out of adjustment ...

so, after the advice on here about the hoses and grommet setup and trying to slip straight hoses onto it and checking the bends required to get to the firewall at a reasonable angle, I'm considering making use of the engine bay heater hoses in the cabin with the 90 deg bends at the heater. The edge ...

yes...it was originally spearmint. liking the idea of original colour more and more.

heater unit in place...

Bracket welded together painted...

So running original carb linkage?
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not much left of the original between the grille and firewall.
yes, not a fan of the 350. its too big for the 202 and smothers it a bit. a set of twin strombergs with beehive ribbed filters would be a nice ...

That firewall grommet is the aftermarket Rares one. It is very, very thin compared to the original GMH ones. I found that the heater hoses had enough weight that they would pull the grommet out, repeatedly. Ended up running with a loose grommet for a while to let the hoses find their "settling ...

gpi wrote: Fri Apr 24, 2020 5:18 am its upside down isnt it?

the sticker on it says its the right way up ?
i'm not sure there is right and wrong way for these things.
i guess i could flip it to have outlets point up

You must have plenty of clearance to the firewall at the back then, assuming you would have to be running short snout water pump. Nice engine bay dress up.


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just enough to lift off the rocker cover while sticking your tongue out just right and lifting ...

looks great, what diff have you got under it?


i dont remember GPI. used to be a screamer with 13's years ago then i got 14s and a taller geared diff that lets me get over 100 without sitting on a redline. still a standard single spinner though and it is still a handful with the cheese cutters ...

Wander down the hill to Osborne Park - there's sure to be a sheet metal fabrication company there - and see whether you can persuade some small offcuts of 1.2 and 1.0 mm steel sheet out of them for welding practise. Then you can try in earnest on a panel
Rob


Ahhh, we seem to think alike Rob, a ...

new radiator, thermo fans and the radiator support crosmember notched a little to give me more than 5mm from back of radiator to face of waterpump pulley bolts...all triggered when i found that my fanbelt was cactus and the radiator had a nice circle mashed into the back face of it from the water ...