Its been a case recently of the car fighting back every time I attempt to do something . Firstly there was the saga with the different spring plates meaning I had to re drop the rear beam, now just when I hoped to start her up for the first time the weekend , I went to fit the power steering pump and realised I had fitted the wrong balance shaft cover with the bracket missing ! When I started building this engine it was a back up for my track car that has a manual steering rack so out of three lower balance shaft covers I put the broken one on as I wouldn't need the bracket and keep the others as spares, but things changed and this engine went into my road car and completely forgot until the weekend. So after a serious tantrum , stripped front cover, balance belt and sprockets and main crank pulley which gave enough room to remove and replace cover and reinstall everything. As is often the case ,the thought of redoing it all was worse as it only took just over an hour but by then it was to late in the day to get her started. You can see in the photos with the engine on the stand the missing bracket . Also got my calipers back from refurbishment . Being an 86 they are are strange size and style but I was lucky that the scrapper seals were reusable not so lucky was that 7 of the pistons were pitted . So rather than having new brembo pistons installed a set of stainless pistons were made which should solve the problem long term. Fingers crossed should have running next weekend.
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