Swmbo and I made it out to the garage on Sunday for some graft on the donor bits. We cleaned up the engine block (a combination of the wire wheel attached to a drill and kurust stuff), then painted it in VHT silver. It now looks pretty shiny (more so than I was expecting), but I reckon we'll need some more for the gearbox housing.....
Also stripped the valves & valve gear out of the head, remembering to keep them all in numbered freezer bags. The valves were pretty well coated in coke, lumps of which had already started falling off, so they were given a bit of a clean up with some emery cloth. The rest of the stuff had the oil washed off with paraffin.
The rear brake calipers that Claire's dad gave us are pretty well rusted tight - a soaking in plusgas should hopefully get the pistons moving (although the tool to twist them properly would also help), and I need to find somewhere to get a service kit for them from......
Some progress so far pics to follow when I've dragged them off the camera.....
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