ERA sump finished Engine & Gearbox mated / Rolling chassis

Friday 24^th June

Went into town today and had the tyres fitted J then popped to local motor factors to pick up gasket paper, clutch alignment tool and thought I would get some fully synthetic oil while I was there, forgot to pick up diff and gear box oil though L. Also popped to the local tool hire company and hired the engine hoist that will be needed for the engine fit. Fitted the clutch spigot bearing and pressure plate.

Made the gasket for the oil pickup, fitted the oil pickup with 9mm of clearance from the bottom of the sump (measured this with some blue tack). While doing a dry fit of the ERA sump (no gasket) noticed that the bolt holes didn’t line up correctly, looks like I got the same problem as Dave T who also has a blog going at the moment with a tiger avon build, by the way thanks Dave (if you ever read this blog) as your blog has given me good guidance to the build, especially as there is no build manual supplied with the kit. Basically the sump fowls on the oil pickup, so out with the air file and a couple of minutes had it fitting nice.

Fitted the wheels, I am now at the rolling chassis stage J

Fitted the new clutch fork and thrust bearing, then mounted the gearbox to the engine, this went in surprisingly easy and 5 bolts were thread locked and torqued into place.

Had to cut one of the mounts to fit around the water pump housing, didn’t take too long.

Already now for the engine fitting tomorrow