Restoration of Hull 731- Carrier, MG (Aust) Mortar Carrying

[Darrin Wright]

With Fridays good weather, I dropped the LHR suspension unit off to be sandblasted. This was collected later in the afternoon and undercoated. I was going to use the last of my green paint to give it a coat of colour, but the paint had gone solid.

Saturday- it rained all day.
Using Euan's clutch rods as samples (borrowed), I bent up my rod in the same style; however, my rod required its own unique bends to get it from the pivot linkage on the centre bulkhead to the clutch throw-out are/lever. This took about 2 hours of bending and test fitting to get right. It is in now.
I also cut and installed the leather grommet for the accelerator & clutch rod to pass through on the engine bay divider plate.

With the rods in, there was no excuse not to install the radiator. With my wife assisting, we lifted it over the hull side and down into position.
I did discover that the Macs Auto radiator mount kit, that I bought months ago, did not quite fit. The bolts are too short due to the extra thickness of the engine/radiator C channel rails in the hull. To over come this I got two bolts a little bit longer and drilled them for the split pins, otherwise the rest of the kit was usable.
Another point to note, I cut my clutch rods from the lengths listed in the parts book. These lengths are incorrect, I think they got the front & rear mixed up, Will find out for sure when I get to install the front clutch rod.