my original carrier looks exactly like that. I swapped it for a rennline carrier - but didn't need to - thats enough extra strength for street use.

 

Got the alternator and shroud separated.


Cutoff the old rotten exhaust manifold flange.


Measured up and drew the new one. I'll ask around a few local fabrication places to see if somebody could punch one out.

 

US garages rock. I've just fixed some carpet to the wall of my garage so I can open the doors without worrying about hitting the walls....!

 

Rob, I laughed when I read your comment about the guys in the sates and their garages, as I've had similar thoughts my self., so I'm not the only one.
I used to have a house in Scottsdale Arizona, just north of Phoenix. Beautiful house, a triple Garage on one side a single on the other. You know what they say, everything in the States is bigger and better.

 

By the way, if you are struggling to find someone to make the exhaust flange, let me know, I might be able to point you in the right direction.

 

You may remember a while back I made up a replacement forward gear link rod using some rod ends. Well tonight I thought I'd have a crack at doing something about the sloppy rearward linkage. Now I know the 'Golden rod' is already available but once you've paid to ship your rod over to the states, paid the $190 fee and paid for return shipping that's easily going to be something like $280. How hard can it be to make one? I sourced a good grade alloy steel UJ for £50 that was drilled for 5/8 one end and 1/2 the other. The fit onto the gearbox was a bit too tight to start with but a bit of polishing with emery paper saw them slot together.



The existing joint on my rod was in poor shape with a crack running through the bolt hole and loads of slop in the bushes. It's also just a light aluminium alloy casting of some sort. The new one is much stronger.



I recon I can just chop the old joint off and weld the new one on.



Both the original joint and the 'Golden rod' have a kind of buttress through which the fastening bolt passes to help spread the torsional load. To make something similar, I took a nut and welded it onto the UJ with a nice fat weld. I then drilled through the center of nut so that the bolt can pass through.



Badda-Bing! Stage one complete. It fits and tightens down just like the original.

 

Epic stuff as ever Rob. I was planning an RS shifter as one of my winter jobs. I didn't know this 'golden rod' thing existed. I was planning to get this from Type 911:

http://www.type911shop.co.uk/shop/ar...6aid%3D5658%26



I googled the 'golden rod' and their schematic seems to show more parts than the image from Type 911 suggested, which they highlight in green. The 'golden rod' is in yellow and replaces parts #29 and #30. The Type 911 part seems to replace part #1 only. Do I need the rest of these parts highlighted in green or do I already have them...?



Don't mean to hijack, hopefully it's in keeping with your thread...!

 

Hi, you will already have the other green parts on the car.

 

This eve I cut the old end off and welded on the new UJ. All that remains is to rub the whole bar back to bare metal, etch then paint :-)

 

I literally began this exact job today.
My gearbox end was just like yours ie cracked case, tones of play.
Really looking fwd to getting rid of that problem,
Almost as much as I'm sure you're looking fwd to turning the key!

 

You have no idea!!! :-)
I've given up on any thoughts of driving it this year but I'll certainly get the engine sparked up.

 

More sporadic progress...
I got a big tub of engine parts back from the powder coaters :-)


Had the new exhaust flange welded on. My rig wouldn't man enough for the job so I called in a mobile welder chap to do it for me. (its not been prep'd or welded this picture)


I whipped off all the inlet manifold and remaining tin in readiness for the new fibre-glass tin set - if/should it ever friggin arrive !!!! Grrrrr
All nice and dry tho - no leaks :-)
Had to shell out for a new starter tho. The integrated +ve lead that bridges between the motor-housing and solenoid was holding together by only a few remaining strands of copper.
A fire waiting to happen! What a crock of cr@p design that is!

 

Nice!

 

Have you cleaned up the top of the engine or was it already that clean when you pulled the shroud?

 

I cleaned the gearbox but not the engine.