Part 4: The Work Begins
The long hot summer of 2018 was coming to an end, but there were a few weekends before the frantic part of our business year when free days are few and far between. We started work... My eldest son, Max, had just passed his driving test and was eager to help. Being a sensible type, he had read and digested the Haynes manual before diving in. We decided to start with the basics: New air filters (easy), check the specific gravity of the anti freeze (easy), replace 12 spark plugs and HT leads (ridiculously complicated) and replace the four accessory drive belts (unbelievably frustrating). Max volunteered to re-build and adjust the throttle linkage - I lost count of how many parts there are, but on the way he fixed the seized kick down linkage and replaced all the missing and broken bushes. He then moved on to the temperature sensors: The air temperature sensor disintegrated in his hands, so he rigged up some resistors to send the ECU the correct ambient...