1967 Neptune Blue Deluxe

[sparkywig]

Sliding door card, part 57.
After breaking yet more of these damn clips, I've finally managed to get them all lined up and ready to fit. I decided that the probability of having to remove the door card is minimal, so I'm going to stick the middle section to the sliding door frame.



All fitted and glued, with a little weight to help with the grab.



Seems to have worked OK, although there is a small mark on the the door card where one of the clips has pushed back through the ply.





And refitted. Thanks to @Fortunate Son for the assistance, it's certainly easier with two people especially when the sliding door track cover is still in place.

 

[sparkywig]

The next job is to refit the 44's and sort out the throttle linkage.
For some reason on this engine case I can't get full throttle movement from idle, although the same linkage was fine on the old engine.

 

[wklail]

It looks amazing.

 

[sparkywig]

Thanks

 

[milfredo]

It looks lovely. The colourway of your bas is probably my favorite all round.

 

[creationblue]

That does look fresh

 

[sparkywig]

Right then, where were we?
Off with the 40's and manifolds retightened back to heads.





44's back on, I'm glad there's an access hatch.



After quite a lot of jiggery-pokery with the carb linkage rod length, changing the spindle levers a couple of times and refitting the alternator strap due to interference it's running again.
Not brilliantly, but that's down to tuning.



And time for a drive around the block.



Now it's driving again, I can finish the cab door cards and get some miles before Ninove.

 

[gas1man]

Just looking awesome and will only get better over time.
Awesome job.

J & P

 

[sparkywig]

No pics taken this weekend.
It's very cold and damp at the lockup first thing in the morning, and I was feeling unwell so just wanted to get a couple of things done and get back home.
Still haven't fully sussed the 3/4 cylinder valve cover breather connection and route back to the breather box. It's cost me around £60 in AN-8 fittings so far.
But I did solve/repair the rear air shock leaks for nothing, and it's starting on the button now.
Just need to sort the horn again, fit the ducts to the door cards and think about curtains.

 

[sparkywig]

After faffing around for ages with different fittings and pipe routes from the 3/4 rocker cover to the breather box on the fanhousing, I've taken the shortest route, straight up and through the engine rubber seal.



Part of the problem was the engine raise, as I had to trim a bit of the engine bay seal metalwork to get the AN fitting to screw onto the rocker cover outlet.
All this will be sorted when I next drop the engine and Teddy tidies the engine bay metal after my previous measuring mishaps.