Today had a friend to help. He was one of the people that helped me on arrival day to carry the chassis with engine from the rented van outside the garage (it was too tall to go inside) to the parking space two floors bellow. He has some mechanical knowledge and with help from his father has restored two Volkswagen historical cars.
After showing him how things were since he had last seen the car, we went around tightening all the transmission bolts that I had previously done alone. He taught me a trick to add leverage to the allan key so that I could get more strength on the bolts. While he tightened them I was holding the wheel flange.
When we got to the prop shaft bolts, he told me to put the engine in gear. It was a wonderful moment when I realized how to engage gears on that engine. I'm now really into fitting the clutch cable and the gear linkage!
I had also planned for us to fit the front brake disks but his opinion was that I should save the disks to the end so that I would fit the wheels right after and thus protect the disks from dust and accidental bumps. I really was looking forward to fitting the brakes, but I guess I'll postpone that a bit.
We finished the session with me drilling the two holes on the chassis to bolt the diff's upper support. Turns out the 10mm drill bit I bought for this is not big enough, will still have to enlarge the holes slightly. But not now, my ears are still humming. I'm now really considering buying ear mufflers, specially since I still have loads of holes to drill to fit the body panels.
After finishing the diff, and since I'll postpone the brakes, it seems next tasks will be tightening the suspension bolts, fitting the clutch cable (:)), riveting the ally panel on the passenger's footwell and the the gear linkage (:)). Then... Gas and water pipework? And then electrical? I fear the electrical part...
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