## :3 ## General Update Clutch is (mostly) in, just waiting on allen keys turning up so I can finish tightening all the bolts for definite.

Oil warning light turned out to be a stuck pressure switch. It's started working again now that I've taken it off and given it a crack on a solid surface, but I don't trust it; I'll get a replacement, they're not expensive. Alternator warning light works when it's connected (imagine that!). And I've cut my manifolds down just so I can bolt them up and not be firing hot exhaust directly at all the stuff I've just painted. When

h'Okay, then! With the engine fitted into the truck, and now with all the mounting bolts tightened (Other than the front ones, anyway.), I decided to stick the various manifold bits on just for a laugh. They fit better than I expected! Now, admittedly, my expectations were "not at all", what with me having forgotten about the existence of the front axle while building them, so there's that...

## Friday ## Pedals drilled and tapped for grease nipples, at the pivot shaft. The brake pedal appears to have some sort of fibrous bushing in it, but the clutch pedal is just the plain cast-iron bore on the shaft. There are oil-holes drilled into the pedals already -- I just reused those

Righti-o then! I managed to, with the assistance of the torch and the vice, crank the wiper arm the other way. That sorts that, then! And -- thanks to lots of experimentation, measuring, maffs, and whatnot -- it appears that a 3/4" arm on the spindles should get me about a 90 degree sweep; which, with those arms and 13" wiper-blades, covers as much as the windscreen as can be covered without using

Righti-o then! I managed to, with the assistance of the torch and the vice, crank the wiper arm the other way. That sorts that, then! And -- thanks to lots of experimentation, measuring, maffs, and whatnot -- it appears that a 3/4" arm on the spindles should get me about a 90 degree sweep; which, with those arms and 13" wiper-blades, covers as much as the windscreen as can be covered without using

Looks promising. Not my prettiest weld, by a long shot. But it's in, solid, and there are no big leaks. I still need to go over it with some soapy water and see if there's any pinholes, but I need to come back at it with the

It's taken me longer than it should to get around to doing this, but: If you have a late production Skoda Favorit (or similar derived model like the Forman pickup?) with the Mono-Motronic fuel injection, there is a 5-pin diagnostic connector at the back of the engine bay hiding behind the charcoal canister. It's a 5-pin JPT connector, and the matching housing should already be in place as a blanking cap; so you can pull the rubber plugs out of