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I attended the Watford Village Classic today, weather was poor but the forecast rain stayed away.

Got the car running and moving for the first time since the bonnet was stolen & the car moved to a barn to sit out Covid....

Clutch freed off after a few minutes running & heat cycles. Brakes fine apart from rusty disks.

Interior smells of mice.. eugh!

Jeremy

Adopted the Lotus position of upside down in the footwell to replace the brake master cylinder pushrod, with one of the original length.

I did some tire mounting, I always do it yearly to ensure everything is balanced. Aside from that, I clean the car in preparation for the workweek.

Seamus, seeing the photos of your Elan reminds me of an old mate from my time on UK, Tony Lamoury who's Sprint was in same colours. I had an S4SE DHC, Tony his Sprint DHC and another mate Boob Cooper with yellow over white Sprint, all lived around Petts Wood, Bromley and Orpington.

We had a memorable trip to Le Mans for the 24Hr race.

Good times

Cheers

V

Spent some time polishing and waxing.

Nice!!!!!

Long overdue suspension refresh.
Mission creep has set in and I'll get the diff rebuilt with an LSD and Atlas outputs. Have decided to ditch the Spyder driveshafts. New rubber/poly all around. Adjustable rear lower arm. TTR shocks and springs

Hi

Pulled the ARB yesterday as it was knocking on the chassis brace bar, replaced rubbers quite easily took longer to rub down to paint the bar.

My car didn't have them, so I installed new kick panels.....because, you know, I always kick the door on the way out.....

Took the speedo out to send it off for recalibration - a nightmare of a job - one result from fitting a 3:1 diff!! Any one got an easy way of getting speedos in and out? D

Fiddly, maybe, but 'nightmare'? If it's got the original style knurled retaining nuts and bracket you reach behind the dash and remove them by feel, then pull the speedometer out of the dash and disconnect the wiring and drive cable when it's easy to see what you are doing.

On reassembly, tidy the wiring (ensuring a bit of slack) and the drive cable run to make it easier to do the above next time, at least.

Well yes - but it hits the steering column and indicator jobbies and all else besides. No clearance obvious. D

TBG wrote:Well yes - but it hits the steering column and indicator jobbies and all else besides. No clearance obvious. D

Steering column length is adjustable, so loosen its clamps (at 3 and 21 in diagram) and pull away from the dash.

TBG wrote:Well yes - but it hits the steering column and indicator jobbies and all else besides. No clearance obvious. D

I just removed the switches off the column and wiggled it a bit, but not easy.
Now how long will calibration take.....