This damn wagon is possessed.
Builder (finally) finished with the engine rebuild. New crank, new bearings, tidy up. Dyno run for an hour all good. Got the phone call to come and pick up the car, builder only had a slight miss to fix (suspected he had crossed a plug lead when putting motor into car).
Got a lift to the workshop, only to find the bonnet inoperable. Stupid me had installed the bonnet lock, and never tested it. Builder had pushed the Hood knob in... cable went in too far, and got stuck. Hood knob could not be pulled back out.
Resist temptation to have-at the wagon with a ballpein hammer.
Remove front bumper, front indicators, then grill all with bonnet locked shut. Cut leads off to fancy LED driving lights to allow grille to come forward. Snap new shiny Rare Spares bolt off in grill. Swear. Reach up and unbolt latch mechanism from bonnet (3 bolts). Pull latch mechanism from bonnet steelwork, then lift bonnet up. Remove Hood cable from mechanism, and give it the evil eye. Engine builder puts #7 and #8 plug leads back in the correct order. Put indicators back for drive home. Once home, reassemble front of vehicle.
Car is now running well. Will spend some time checking everything over again, then book the engineer for final inspection. Aiming for rego before years-end.
Cheers,
Harv
327 Chev EK wagon, original EK ute for Number 1 Daughter, an FB sedan meth monster project and a BB/MD grey motored FED.