This is a new high tech piece of equipment my wife purchased for me. It actually is a plastic kitchen strainer & it was extremely useful for cleaning all the nuts & bolts. I simply tipped the plastic bags containing the bolts from various areas into a tin of cleaning fluid, gave them a good rinsing & then tipped them into the strainer, which was above another container, enabling me to recycle the cleaning fluid until it was too filthy. So that took a while cleaning all of those bits & pieces.
That was about it so the re-building started or was about to start. I undid the welch plugs that I had bought last week & the pack was for a Cortina & none fitted. They were all too small! I then pressed the front oil seal into place & that went in fairly easily. The rear one is a different story & whilst it is in a fair way, it needs to go in a bit further & I will need some assistance. I then fitted the front seal housing & the new water pump that I found in my spare parts bin.
This afternoon, I put the new rings onto the pistons & fitted the new bearings. I also had to visit Autobarn & sort out the welch plugs. I need to fit a new PCV valve which was not available so that will need a bit of a search. The T plug on the side of the Weber which attaches the water hoses is very corroded so I will try to find another one of these. Tomorrow, I hope to fit the pistons back into the block & re-seat the valves.
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