Yes Dave, the same place as yours. Not cheap, but you get what you pay for and they have done a superb job.
Thanks for the update on the Tapiro, Aberdonian. It's such a shame how it ended up....maybe one day it'll be restored.
Today I have mostly been underneath the car.
With the callipers done, pads and pins done, I thought they look so good that I simply couldn’t leave the disc backing stone covers looking their age. So the first job this morning was to take off all 4 original discs and remove the backing plates (and tie bar from the rears). I’ll drop them off tomorrow with the bead blasters and get them cleaned up and powder coated ready for when my new discs arrive.
I had to put the old discs back on again afterwards so that the car is still mobile.
Next I finished off putting on the tinware under the engine and replacing all the slot head screws with stainless steel.
I then took off the old damaged heater hoses, cleaned up around where they attach to the car and cut my nice new hose to length. These were then fitted with new stainless steel jubilee clips.
Next I sorted out the heater flap box cables and fitted them to the operating levers. After a bit of a fiddle, I managed to adjust them correctly so that the lever in the car opens and closes smoothly and fully.
I’m still waiting for my new speedo cable from Roger Bray, 10 days lead time has turned into 3 weeks and still no sign of it. The old one is still in the car and shown in the photo’s but will be changed as the sheath is very badly damaged.
Can anyone tell me if the speedo cable and clutch cable should sit in the groove in the small bit of tinware under the pushrod tubes? Looks like it should (to match the gear linkage on the other side) but the clutch cable seems to be too long to wrestle into the groove of the tinware and wants to naturally sit lower than the engine, forced into its resting position by passing through the hole in the engine cross member?
The old clutch cable was cable tied along its length to the speedo cable before I replaced it but this is obviously not how it should be. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Next the gearbox oil was drained out. (Top tip…always make sure you can get the fill plug out before you take the drain plug out). The oil was a little dirty but nothing to worry about. There was a small amount of sludge on the drain plug, but nothing metallic so hopefully the gear change won’t give me any issues just yet.
While the oil was out I decided to change the angle drive seals. Since cleaning the gearbox off the other weekend I could now see that it was the source of a leak as expected. I got the “O” seal, aluminium washer and lip seal from Porsche all for a tenner so set about changing them.
(don’t panic, the vice is lightly holding the drive while I hooked the old lip seal out, not squashing it)
Once cleaned up I rebuilt the angle drive a fitted it back into the car. The retaining bolt was inserted by hand so that I could feel it locate correctly before a spanner was used. Nipped up and as said before “the wobble is standard” but at least it’s not leaking now and wobbles far less. All in all it looks a lot cleaner under there now (compared to even the picture on page 6 of this thread when I had already cleaned for several weekends)
Finally I topped up the gearbox with nice new oil before I called it a day.
