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Gosford, NSW, Australia
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It's 1 week since the buy and pickup. I think I'm going to struggle keeping this log up to date and complete. The drive up with the trailer went OK, the pickup took longer than I had expected - no real problems, just took longer. The drive home was fairly uneventful as well.
It was the events that occured when home that was the cause of some anxiety.
I had gone over in my mind several times the alternatives available to me to get the car where I wanted it at home.
We have a steep driveway which turns at 90 deg into a double garage(carport) at the bottom. I intended to drop car off at top of the drive, attach a tow rope between the front of MG and front of Patrol and lower the car backwards down the drive with my son steering. The problem occurred when the car would not roll easily - still not sure why - especially with steering close to lock. It was dark by this time and after several attempts at getting it into an appropriate position to be able to turn it down the drive, to cut a longer story short, tempers were well and truly frayed. Eventually got the car in place and tucked away for the night.
The following day I purchased an engine stand and with the help of a friend, Kevin, we got the motor onto the stand and started to clean it up.
The engine was originally maroon, had been painted blue - presumably as a result of having had some serious work done on it - and the top (what you would have been able to see) had been painted red.
I want to paint maroon - more like the original colour.
Scraped off much gunk, sprayed with degreaser, scrubbed and washed off with hot water. Did this twice. still needs some more degreasing/cleaning. Don't want to take of manifolds at this stage so am working around these. Bought some auto enamel, only doing block and head so doesn't need to be hi-temp, rasberry red. After dewax / greasing will apply with a brush to castiron bits only. Maybe the timing case as well but leaving the rocker cover the brighter red at this stage.
PO assured me the motor will run and as we have mutual aquaintences in the same MG club, it would not be in his interests to mislead me.
I've posted some more images at Photobucket .com
http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n255/sweep_2006/
Geocities was causing some problems.
It was the events that occured when home that was the cause of some anxiety.
I had gone over in my mind several times the alternatives available to me to get the car where I wanted it at home.
We have a steep driveway which turns at 90 deg into a double garage(carport) at the bottom. I intended to drop car off at top of the drive, attach a tow rope between the front of MG and front of Patrol and lower the car backwards down the drive with my son steering. The problem occurred when the car would not roll easily - still not sure why - especially with steering close to lock. It was dark by this time and after several attempts at getting it into an appropriate position to be able to turn it down the drive, to cut a longer story short, tempers were well and truly frayed. Eventually got the car in place and tucked away for the night.
The following day I purchased an engine stand and with the help of a friend, Kevin, we got the motor onto the stand and started to clean it up.
The engine was originally maroon, had been painted blue - presumably as a result of having had some serious work done on it - and the top (what you would have been able to see) had been painted red.
I want to paint maroon - more like the original colour.
Scraped off much gunk, sprayed with degreaser, scrubbed and washed off with hot water. Did this twice. still needs some more degreasing/cleaning. Don't want to take of manifolds at this stage so am working around these. Bought some auto enamel, only doing block and head so doesn't need to be hi-temp, rasberry red. After dewax / greasing will apply with a brush to castiron bits only. Maybe the timing case as well but leaving the rocker cover the brighter red at this stage.
PO assured me the motor will run and as we have mutual aquaintences in the same MG club, it would not be in his interests to mislead me.
I've posted some more images at Photobucket .com
http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n255/sweep_2006/
Geocities was causing some problems.
Winching the car onto the trailer
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