A few days after getting the engine in, my Dad winched the Westfield onto a trailer and brought it back to Warwickshire for me to continue the build.
After struggling to push it back onto the drive (due to the front wheels not being connected to the steering rack!), we put the main part of the body on the chassis for storage.
The first job was to put the propshaft into place now that it had been shortened by Bailey Morris. Once this was in, at the gearbox end, there was about 20-30mm of the splined section outside of the gearbox and judging by the corrosion, only about 10mm of this had been exposed when in the Mazda. I don’t know if this would have been a problem but decided to move the engine back a little whilst it was relatively easy to do so.
The slot on the right hand engine mount was almost still OK ( I enlarged it by about 2mm) but it meant re-drilling the holes on the left engine mount and for the gearbox mount. Without the engine hoist to remove the engine, the gearbox mount meant drilling the holes from underneath the car, then sliding the engine backwards before locating the mounts. I also used this chance to fit the gearbox mounts recommended on the WSCC forum here.
With this done and everything bolted in place, I put the propshaft in place and the splined section was now very close to where it had been on the Mazda so I’m happy.
I have now created a list of jobs and started to work through them:
During transport, the engine had been protected by the combination of a canvas bag and sticky back plastic wrapped around, this had definitely worked to keep the worst of the rain off the engine but unfortunately took some of the paint off the cam cover so one of the first jobs was to repaint this.
Fitting the clutch slave cylinder and hose. The master and slave cylinders are very close so I can’t work out a better way to route the hose. Need to get some fluid and bleed the this.
New air filter into the standard box, tried to mount it to the chassis but I appear to be missing the small L shaped bracket, it’s fairly simple so I will cut one out of some spare aluminium sheet.
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