I was going to start off by saying: ‘Well, it’s done but it took longer than I expected,’ but they all do that if we’re brutally honest about our projects.
They also consume far more money than we might intend or expect but that really is the nature of the game. If you were in on the ground floor of this one you might recall the initial plan was to effect an ‘oily rag’ refurbishment but that went to hell in a hand basket PDQ.
So where are we up to? The freshly rechromed exhausts (the bank balance is still recovering BTW) were fitted and adjusted to ensure the threaded collars at the cylinders were on correctly and tight. With the tail-pipe hangers taking up most of the rearward mass it only required the 10 washers, collars, distance pieces and rubber bushes to be correctly aligned, plus
