A Street Sleeper is reborn! THE END

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yesterday turned out to be a f*ck on and a half sadly, The waterless coolant I put in the car, well it dumped the full works! I started it up for the 1st time since the interior was put in the car, and I saw some steam coming from the engine bay, checked that out and I found that the jublie clip on the top hose and failed, so the bastard had been weeping out! I did check the coolant before I started the engine anyway as it still ended bleeding properly. So after a f*ck on sorting that out and checking for other leaks, the car was ticking over nicely. Bastard thing is I have to buy more coolant at a cost of 100 quid, but at least its fully converted now, plus bled up you might as well say.
One thing that always bugged me since I put the diesel rad in the car, was that the top pipe never sat as it should, and sometimes it would weep out of the seal, also my dad said he could make a bracket up to keep it in place, so that it frees the flow of the top rubber hose up and keep the top hose more closer the front of the car.
so after a bit of engineering and tweaking my dad came up with this, while I was checking over the car and sorting out a few bits from the welding in the engine bay.


Today I was going to start wiring in my bit rover accessary, its basically a temp indicator, for out side, Like the Phase 2? and phase3s have. But this goes either red or green, remember this accessary is 20 years old.
Was a rover extra for all rovers, and quite sort after when they pop up!



But before I could begin with the installation of the dash part of things, I gave the dash and the inside of the car a good wash down, my mum came out to help me. So that I could move on to sorting the boot out and other odds and sods, so that they can be binned.
After that I made a start on me bit gadget thing.
I had a predrilled hole in switch blank, that I robbed from a R115 a few years ago, that I was going to use for a shift light or a low coolant thing.

the little indicator,

I had to mod a rubber grommet so that the indicator would fit in the switch blank hole as the hole was bit big.

took a bit of time and we had this!

So some point I will be putting the full works in the car, but the weathers a bit hit and miss, plus I have other bits to sort out sadly,
Coolant, front setup on the car, gauges and sensors.
Nothing much but its a start.