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Well, as you can see from the date of the last post and this one, I have been a little busy (read lazy) and not updated the progress of the car. We have been busy on the car and things are moving along nicely.

Since the last post, I have completed installing all of the brake system. Everything went together nicely with the only thing causing me any trouble was bending a few new pipes (which wasn’t that big a deal). The brake and clutch hydraulic system is all together, but no fluid has been put into them yet. I want to leave this for a while, just in case I need to take things apart again.

The engine is also back in the car. And I have to say, it was the easiest installation of an engine that I have ever participated in. Everything just fell into place, and I only knocked the engine bay once. Dad was very happy with the way things went and was amazed that we had the engine in and mounted in under an hour. It’s really starting to look like a car again.

The one thing that I wasn’t happy with was that the car didn’t sink very much once the engine was back in. Maybe once I get the car back on the road again, the new shockers will settle down a bit. Time will tell.

The one drawback that we did have, and only a minor one, was that the seal in the speedo cog, thingy was worn and leaked oil. We had to take it out and Dad got a new seal from Nissan. He also got a new elbow for the heater hose to fit to the engine block whilst he was there.

I have also taken the Dash and center console to The Dashboard Doctor to get repaired. They are going to re-skin the dash for me and they are going to try to re-join and then skin the center console. The console was not skinned originally, but hopefully, they will be able to do a good job.

That more or less brings things back up to speed. I’ll try and be more diligent in keeping things up-to-date. I’ll process some photos that I have taken and post them up soon too.

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