Exhaust fits but at a cost

The exhaust now has been made to fit through a body hole that we seemed to just keep having to widen. Thanks to the folks at wscc and mark at westfield for some clues.

The whole garage seems to be full of GRP dust as a result so Tim did some spring cleaning (sporting a face mask) this evening.

We had a slight mishap, in that to make the exhaust fit we loosened the engine crankcase breather plate to help wiggle the exhaust manifold through and when retightening the fixing bolts someone overtightened one of the bolts and it snapped off leaving the end in the blind hole in the crankcase. I shall report this to her first RAF engineering commanding officer if she is successful in getting her RAF sponsorship!!

I have ordered a set of screw extractors from ebay (£1.49 + £1.99 postage), but actually it is probably not the end of the world as the pate seems to be securely held by the other two bolts.

We still need to tidy up the edge of the hole we have cut with wet and dry, but we'll do that when we take the body off tomorrow.