Seven - The magic number

 SO this week things finally started really moving. First thing I did was re-assemble the differential now I have it strengthened and back from MK. Once it was back together, I cleaned and painted it with hammerite satin black and it looks pretty good! I then pressed in the nice new orange bushes and actually put it in the car!!! This was the main piece that had stopped me getting to doing bodywork, but its now out of the way. So tonight, I got on with trimming the bodywork. This is pretty nervewracking as one slip and it would be easy to make a big mess of it, but the manual is pretty good and along with some advice from some of the other builders I think I've done a reasonable job. Having a rose jointed chassis means that a couple of the measurements are slightly different to the manual. It'll look a bit scruffy until I take all the tape off and give all the edges a quick sand but I'm going to leave it as is for now as protection. Will do the left hand side of the car tom

 After all the excitement of putting the fuel system in, things went on a bit of a hiatus for a few days mainly because I was waiting for parts. I did manage a couple of bits - cleaning some rust, doing the first bit of wiring (installing a petrol pump plug onto the loom) and so on. I cleaned and painted my harmonic damper so it didn't look quite so much like it had been at the bottom of the sea; Before: After I fitted my ECU tray. This may need some light trimming but its good and solid. However this week, my diff housing and Sump came back!!! I then proceeded to have a huge fight getting the diff bushes out that involved a lot of swearing. I ended up managing it by using the time honored technique of hitting them really hard with a big hammer and a punch, but that was the most unpleasant job for a few weeks. Once that was done however, the side seals popped out relatively cleanly and then I got down to cleaning the mating surfaces. Once again, a painfully time consuming job scrap