Hey guys, i figure ive done enough for a bit of an update..........
With my hand taking 4 weeks to heal due to "an aggressive, antibiotic resistant, infection"
and all of lifes other commitments it was mid july by the time i got back into the garage for some playtime but ive finally managed to strip the roof back to bare metal and get it in primer/hi fill, strip/clean and paint the engine bay and brackets, booster,lines ETC..... prep/paint the window and door frames and remove the head off the L28 motor.(more on that soon.)....
Roof in primer.......
Door frames in black.......
Enginebay before stripping and cleaning.........
Enginebay after strip and clean........
All painted up.....
Mark,(ozconnection) was kind enough to come over on a freezing friday night and reassemble my enginebay for me, THANKS MATE
While i was ripping the old auto box off the L28 i noticed it only turned about 350deg???
so i pulled the sparkplugs hoping for a miracle only to find cyls 3 and 5 full of water
so while mrk was here we lifted the head off for a closer inspection, it wasnt good with heavy pitting and rust in both cyls, add rebuild to the list of things to do.
So it looks like i got duped on that "deal"
Now its wet rubbing time