Today's gentle fun: Remove the old air-tank. I'll have to find my little borescope camera and check out the inside of it; maybe it's still okay enough to reuse, but the little tiny bit I can see doesn't inspire much confidence.

Not particularly much to report since last. I did some more rolling around on the floor, connecting air-pipes up, and ended up taking an hour-long nap while I was there. Last weekend I couldn't really find the motivation to do some more bodywork, so instead I decided I'd take the front tow point off that ... crude crossmember.

Wasn't really in the mood for much today (so I thought), so I started stripping... Two hours of peeling paint with a razor-blade...

Cooling system has antifreeze in it now. Which is good, because by the time I got around to plugging into the ECU and getting ready to start testing stuff, both the air-temp and coolant temp sensors were reading -1°C, and there was definitely a chill in the air. There certainly wasn't a few minutes after firing the engine up, though: Air temp sensor -- slung over the engine hump back panel, down by the gear lever, because there's nowhere in the carby manifold for it to go -- was reading 25°C in pretty short order. I suppose, much like the song

Flexi bit and V-band added. That's the "Phase Two" section 80% done; done enough for now.

This was not a pretty merge, not like the other one (Which also wasn't 'gram-worthy rainbow stacked dimes and all, but at least the gaps were reasonably close). I didn't have a lot of space to make this work, and had to do a lot of gap-filling; worse still, I screwed up the order of welding to the point that I ended up having to weld down into the centre of the merge which was not possible with the TIG torch. What I resorted to was... leaving the welder in TIG mode, with the gas turned off, and hooking up the electrode holder; and using the TIG remote so I could light off the welding rod easier, and instantly cut off the arc without drawing a big arc-trail up the tubing. HF-start

Managed to pick myself up off the floor long enough to get some stuff done, despite my legs' complaints after a couple of days walking round London. - Got more welding gas. It's gotten about 50% more expensive since last time! Ow. - Got the 1/2" UNC bolts for the gearbox, and bolted that up solid. - Re-resealed the PTO blanking plate on the gearbox, and re-refilled it with oil. It appears to be holding, this time. - Adjust the clutch linkage rod so that I can actually press the clutch, now that the gearbox is in place and the clutch disk won't fall out of alignment.