the hightop wedge hit 222333 khm as we rolled back into bristol… 🙂

what on earth is this doing in a bus of mine ????? ah well… got it bolted in and oil in and connected up (though did have to do some twiddling with a load of epoxy resin on the junction of one of the water pipes… times were that i’d drop an engine in and…

a quick blatt up to conors on friday night for a lovely relaxed supper in the hereford hills then pop into raceshack on saturday morning to see a hive of activity on the doublecab… how much i should tell i’m not sure but i think i’ve fallen in love with it… the cage is in…

well after the job of cleaningthe old 1.9 block out of the front room to make way for teenage jam sessions i found the all important box with all the bolts in! so, come sunday lunchtime it’s out into the drizzle on with som esurgical gloves and on with reassembly of the 2.1 block. sorted…

after looking into the prices of a new water pump i came to the conclusion that after i’d done the running around to find a machineshop to drill out the proken studs and helicoil the pump and then drop it off and collect it paying ?24.50 for a brand new one with gaskets and seals…

well, with a bit of encouragement i got the pulley off the 2.1 and was able to extract the waterpump (after lots of ‘gentle’ encouragement) so i can get the studs drilled out. i stripped and cleaned the old efi throttlebody and lo and behold it’s the same size as the RS turbo one i…