Spacers!
Who would have thought..... still, in my defence, the mirrors come with stainless bolts and dome nuts that are only long enough for the firewall as per my install, so I can say I was led astray...! Live and learn!
I've had heaps of help from the forum recently - thank you very much - and countersunk the 60 degree chamfer into my sunraysia wheels, which seems to have been a success, fingers crossed:
https://www.mokeforum.com.au/index.php?topic=14588.new#newI had heaps of help to replace my oil filter with a spin-on upgrade.
https://www.mokeforum.com.au/index.php?topic=14586.0Terry taught me how to remove studs from the block. I had a momentary scare when it looked like it would only fit if installed upside down, but on further examination it fits and works perfectly with no leaks! Woo-hoo!
The correct way which actually works!
There's been a major breakthrough with the brakes (Brakethrough! ooooh...Dadjoke....)
https://www.mokeforum.com.au/index.php?topic=14584.0The front bled well, but the rear not at all.
I replaced the rear flexible brake lines and had a poke around at the inertia valve/brake equaliser/thingy which feeds the rear brakes. In the end the valve was fine but one of the old crusty solid lines broke when I was unbolting it. It took a while to find someone who could make a replacement - in the end found a mobile bunch who came to the house and knocked one up.
It was very fiddly to fit, requiring bending/tweaking/swearing in 4 dimensions, but job done and it works well with no leaks!
Once this was in I could crack and bleed the joints down to the rear wheel cylinders and with some mighty stamps on the peddle - SPLOOOSH - brake fluid and muck shot out of the rear cylinders in turn and now she bleeds!
It was very exciting and required a substantial shed clean....
In other news, there's been much head scratching with wiring and fuses and let's not talk about the wiper motor wiring - definitely put that one in the 'later on' basket...
But I replaced the top radiator bracket that Terry picked up in an early photo and it makes a remarkable difference to the 'sorted' look of the engine bay. It's the 1275 one where the radiator hose comes out the front of the thermostat -
The current work in progress, and since I've had the engine running and the oil filter/temp gauge/oil pressure gauge/oil alarm light switch back together, is working through an oil pressure quandary (fluctuating with revs and reading high...) but it keeps me off the streets!
https://www.mokeforum.com.au/index.php?topic=14600.0And I scored some nice second-hand -but -unused mudflaps! Aaah, the little victories..
Thanks again to all who've been so generous with their time and knowledge, Dan