All righty, spring update:
Over the winter/spring
-Fitted a rebuilt reduction gear starter from a 940. Holy cranking batman!
-Fettled with carbs
-Swapped the leaky Girling clutch MC out for a Willwood unit which fits perfectly other than having to shorten the threaded rod a bit.
-Fettled with carbs
-Fitted new brake MC.
-Fettled with carbs
-Grommeted up the firewall.
-Fettled with carbs
-Installed new rad hoses, thermostat and coolant. Interestingly, the PO had installed the thermostat upside down. That would explain the odd temperature fluctuations...
-Met John in Springbank, man what a great resource there! Got a non bent valve cover, a fourth OG wheel to refinish, a dome light, a proper side mirror and some various trim bits and pieces.
-Fettled with carbs
-Spent two bloody hours rewiring the stupid dome light circuit to get it working. Stupid dome light.
-Got the choke synchronized and generally working like a choke is supposed to.
-Fettled with carbs
-Fixed the brake pedal travel issue: crank drum adjusters down hard, stomp brake pedal a few times, back adjusters off till shoes just tickling drums, boom! Immediate brake pedal.
-Carbed with fettles
-Got an out of province inspection. Passed with no issues found, woo!
-Booked in next Wednesday with National transmission. They did Johns 123gt. The PO did the rear axle bearings but missed shimming things up I think. Half shafts have some play.
-And finally... Da da duh daaaa! Picked up a peach of an M41 with a J type OD from John, plus all the conversion bits. Just need to take the 4th gear safety switch to the hardware store to match the thread pitch and make a tap to drill and tap my M40 lid (M41 is out of a P1800). The car it came out of must have had an oil leak as it's pretty crusty. The inside though looks absolutely brand new. Unbelievably clean. Either super low mileage or rebuilt. I've almost got the outside clean but ran out of time and brake cleaner... (Picture is before cleaning, the other side is twice as dirty).