An hour a hole

Four hours in the garage in the last two days, that is four hours each, to get four holes!

These four holes were to mount the bonnet catches. Very difficult to get in the exact position, they needed packing up by 5mm on some aluminium to get to the right height, and the predrilled holes in the catches were in the wrong place (directly over a weld) so we had to reposition rivet holes.

All seemed to be well until we packed up for the day, then we put the scuttle back on and tried to relock the bonnet, although we achieved this it was certainly not smooth as the scuttle seemed to push the bonnet forward a bit - ruining our precise alignment - argh! our current thinking is that if we file the leading edge of the metal flange that mates with the semicircular troughs in the catches that may give us the 'play' that we need.

Still at least we watched Arsenal beat Liverpool in the cup on the tele last night.