Well the Roadster engine/gearbox is just about ready to go into the GT. All I have to do is drain the oil from them both and refill them, change the filter on the engine and put the motor mounts on.
I have the harness cleaned up and I have to install the new rubber grommets on the underside that hold the hydraulic and fuel line and wiring harness in place.
I have added a small section of wires to the backup light switch on the gearbox so I can ad reverse lights to the car. pretty straightforward install especially since I have already added spare wires to the harness that runs from the front of the car to the rear.
The gearbox crossmember is rebuilt, cleaned, painted and has had the bolt hole modification made.
I puled the tachometer out and did the conversion to it for negative ground...the bad part:
I pulled the tach apart, cleaned it, painted the inside of the housing white to better reflect the internal lighting, and cleaned the hazy glass and cleaned and shined up the chrome bezel. Why is that bad? Well it's not. The bad part is that after I reinstalled it the rest of the gauges look like absolute shit!!! Now I have to pull the other gauges out and clean them too...like I don't have enough work.
Also needing done:
Rewire the car for negative ground-not too difficult.
Fix the broke female spade connectors for the fuel sending gauge and coil wire.
a ton of other little things involved in an engine swap and negative ground conversion.
I hope to have the car back on the road by the end of the Month
Since my wife and I are separating I have to have the GT, the Corvette and the Spitfire running and roadworthy and the 74 roadster ready to be rolled around at least and I have to have all that done by August 1st
I is gonna be a busy little bee!
I bought a 1967 MGB-GT, my third British car...but this one runs!
