I've had a couple of weeks off over Christmas and the New Year and so this week started construction again with renewed energy!
The first job has been to connect up the wiring loom earth connections. All the body earthing wires from the fiesta will be connected to either the engine, the dashboard frame or bolt in the fo'csle. All these in turn will connect to the negative battery terminal.
In the fo'csle....
and on the dashboard...
The next job I'd been putting off was to extend the wiring loom to the port side headlamp unit. Really frustrating having to extend 8 wires by 5 inches. But now done.
Next thing is to start preparing for the engine to go back in.
The first part of that is to refit part of the driveshafts. On the stbd side the whole intermediate shaft and on the port side the splined end of the driveshaft only will be fitted. The shafts themseves are modified to incorporated an additional bearing. This will be clipped onto a rubber gaitor that fits onto the hull.
Here is the intermediater shaft back on.
Having got the shafts in, the gearbox can now be filled with oil. The filler and level plug is on the front of the gearbox. I used a funnel and some tubing to fill the gearbox to the correct level. It took almost forever as the tubing was very narrow and the oil was, as everything else in the workshop, freezing cold.
The driveshafts pass through rubber gaitors to the outside. Its going to be a nightmare fitting these with the engine in so I've fitted them to the hull now...
Next week the engine is going in.!!! Probably
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