1984 MG Montego Efi with digidash

[Jeff Turbo]

Another thing to cross off the ever smaller list.
Electric mirrors now working.
Tidied up the wiring


Made my own fusable link and just needs taping together

[Richard H]

Great work Jeff. I'm really looking forward to seeing this back on the road.

[Jeff Turbo]

Great work Jeff. I'm really looking forward to seeing this back on the road.

Thanks Rich
So am I but it won't be till 2014, ten years after it was last on the road

[Jeff Turbo]

I'm trying to find something like this to hold the headlining biscuit up when i've recovered it, but I can't find the right tape. Any one got any leads for me to follow up?
Or a metal strip that I can attach it to as it's sagging quite badly in the centre

[G51 NAV]

Fully enjoying reading through this. I don't look half often enough.
That servo is brilliant. What did you do? Sand it flat, hit it with a rust-killer and Hammerite it?

[Jeff Turbo]

Fully enjoying reading through this. I don't look half often enough.
That servo is brilliant. What did you do? Sand it flat, hit it with a rust-killer and Hammerite it?

Yep spot on John but it looks far better in the picture, didn't realise who much would be showing. Still it's better than what it was

[Jeff Turbo]

I'm trying to find something like this to hold the headlining biscuit up when i've recovered it, but I can't find the right tape. Any one got any leads for me to follow up?
Or a metal strip that I can attach it to as it's sagging quite badly in the centre

This might do, stuck on the top and with flat clips through the biscuit that the headlining material might cover
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aluminium-...item41787dd93f
With these pushed through from the underside to hold it after i've shaped it. Being near flat they might be hidden enough when I do the headlining
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1410518381...84.m1497.l2649

[Jeff Turbo]

Prezzies turned up today
New cambelt, tensioner and early waterpump

[Jeff Turbo]

Bit more done to cross off the list. Manual mirrors off

Leccy ones on and working


Tidy

[Jeff Turbo]

Engine next
Early heads are different to later ones


Very early belt tensioner


Offside front wheel and dust cover had to be remove to see this part

Early timing marks

[Jeff Turbo]

Mark on the cam didn't line up so marked it with tipex as it will go back the same


Water pump next

Note the early oil switch


Unfortunately this happened

[Jeff Turbo]

Water pump was on it's last legs and a bit stiff



Tensioner differences. Was supposed to be for an early engine but clearly isn't. Cam belt also fits a Renault Meganne

[Jeff Turbo]

Early tensioners are mega rare but a very good friend has found one in...................................Spain
Luckily my eldest sons girlfriend is half Spanish so she's going to enquire for me
Also got the trial leccy windows working, so just need to alter the existing loom and add another switch.
I've also found what I'm going to use to brace the headlining biscuit to stop it going out of shape. Glued on and in specific areas this should be enough
http://www.wickes.co.uk/pvcu-cloak-p...m/invt/162619/

[Jeff Turbo]

I have sourced a tensioner, same shape and dimensions of a Ford OHC Capri/Cortina/Transit engine and only £25 if it works
So hopefully it fits

[Jeff Turbo]

Brand new core plugs arrived today and i've now sorted the tensioner
The pinto one is slightly different


Bolt holes are a bit narrower