I took a week off work last week, much needed due to some new stresses, but now I have to go back to work to rest up!
I spent several days putting the finishing touches on the 200 tdi. Waiting for Fedex for the final parts — only to discover that when they were delivered it was actually an order for a guy in Ontario. Don't know where mine went, but Britpart is sending again and the skew gear and clutch fork should be here tomorrow.
Also had to order a couple of glow plugs as 2 were shot. Paddocks had them on sale for £1.95 each so I picked up a half dozen. The block heater should arrive tomorrow too, I hope.
Finally, I took the injectors in to the local fuel shop and they rebuilt them, which was surprisingly inexpensive, only $137 — even better, Pamela paid!
So the engine sits with everything done but putting in the skew gear, glow plugs and block heater. Today I cleaned up the shop, and turned my attention back to the Range Rover. I had loosened a lot of stuff but hadn't actually pulled the V8. So today was the day. And boy, was it a messy bitch of a job. One engine now sits on the shop floor, but I have a lot of cleanup to do again.
The next process will be to remove the tranny, clean out the engine bay, remove all the unneeded junk from the V8, install the pedal assembly, simplify the wiring, then figure out whether the pile of engine mounts from various projects will adapt to this one or if I'm gonna be fabricating engine mounts too.
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