STEADY PROGRESS

Got home early from work today and found good progress. Paul had finished the main machining of the front sprockets and Oli and Sud Minor working on the Radiator header and base tanks and the diff unit. Jeremy had fitted the relined brake shoes which had arrived this morning from Tim Stamper. Tim had also skimmed them to fit the precise ID of the LH and RH drums. The drums then fitted beautifully and so rear drums, hubs, chain sprockets now all done. A big step forward.
I worked on the Gearbox and drilled the mountings into the chassis a la Bugatti style to match the diff unit and the engine crankshaft line. Olivers careful alignment of the chassis when restoring it has paid dividends as there is only a little shimming required here and there.
Also bought some of the fuel line fittings to replace the old copper fuel line with new 10mm copper.Hope it's big enough to support the 8.2 litre thirst!
John Everett has kindly offered to restore the hub attachment caps and bring them down next week, collecting the wheels en route from Peter Richards.
Adrian Ward is also coming down to help for the week in this critical phase along with Tim Brown the shock absorber magnate who will be here for the week-end. Robin Batchelor is acting as our Weather Man and collating data for us for the whole route.
What a great team!

Edward