I had “promised” Sally pan fried pork chops for dinner, but she had a problem with her heating and water system.
So passed on that.
Perfect opportunity to go into the garage for a couple of hours and knock together a couple of odd shaped brackets, or legs if you want, to support and anchor the airbox.
@nickwheeler and I had been discussing these for a while but other jobs kept displacing the job on the priority list.
So first thing was to scavenge some steel.
But only after another small job.
Remember we cut off the resonator on the air feed?
So it left a hole to fix.
Perfect donor, the windscreen washer bottle cap.
Shaped, glued in place with Soudal crystal glue. And some masking tape to secure while curing.
New Jubilee clamps over the MAF and screwed to the engine.
Now I could get on with the job.
Got a 6mm steel offcut, cut to shape, test drilled with 7.5mm bit to allow for M8 tapping.
Turned out it was too loose with a wobbly thread resulting.
So remade, using a 7mm bit.
Perfect, nice fitting thread.
Then made up leg no 1 to bolt into the chassis on the battery bridge footing.
Happy with that.
Followed by welding the threaded plate to the other end.
Looks like it fits too.
After this, leg no 3 was created.
May need a bit of cross bracing, but need to see it all bolted down first.
It may be stable enough.
So two weird brackets and a hole closed, plus a chat with Mickey took up two hours.
Giving me these.
That now look like this.
Very pleased with that.
Another job ticked off the list.
As soon as I drill a hole in the gutter pipe and move the airbox sensor closer to the wiring loom.
Maybe.
Back indoors by 20.00 and warmed up the left over curry from lMonday night at which time John the one lodger got in
So we sat chatting and had a JD Tennessee Honey.
Perfect end to a busy day.