Templates drawn. I would have preferred to have these cut by cnc plasma, or something, but I haven't yet gotten myself to the point I can make up and send out a drawing for someone else to cut it. So how do we make those?

Didn't manage to grab my drill from work, because my saturday morning shift turned into a most-of-saturday driver cpc instead. And without my drill, I can't make up the other injector hold-downs. Painted a bit, instead. And, just as the rain rolled in, loosely bolted the front wing on for the time bean, to keep it out of the way

Lovely. (Pay no mind to the slightly wonky bolt.) Then, follow this up with some additional fettling (carefully applied weld, then dress back with a file) to ensure as snug a fit as possible. That'll do nicely. Next step, pull all the new inlet runners back off the engine and try them in the fixture.

brushie brushie brushie< That's coming along quite nicely. I also gave the nearside front wing a cleaning and another coat, too, since I had the paint out. Really should finish repairing that cheek panel, so that I can refit this one, at some point.

First off for this evening, let's start with that fixture plate. A 33" long piece of 100x16mm should do nicely. Spend an hour and a half measuring, marking, re-measuring, re-marking, re-re-measuring, head-scratching, drinking coffee and thinking real hard, then measuring again just to make sure. It's recommended you do

Another coat of paint has definitely made a big difference to the side of the truck. It really does take a few coats to build up the opacity. And I got one tab welded onto the air pipe, and as expected that was the last dregs of the argon.

I have a big tin of yellow paint! And I've not touched it since it turned up because after a good couple of months of relatively decent health, joints-wise, I have come off the 4-day Easter weekend and faceplanted into the meatgrinder. I have managed to get a little tinkering done, however.

I've had a fairly productive week/long weekend so far, away from work (Which has been the land of gearbox/clutch hackery...) ## The 26th I got my new MIG torch in, so I celebrated by welding on my remaining two side-marker light brackets on the offside. Which, if my doctor's reading this, involved exactly 0 crawling or kneeling on the floor