Many thanks Al203 - I like the sound of that threading technique.... I'll try it out soon.
Thanks greyhair - I've not yet dived into the wiring diagram... it'll come, but I'm managing to avoid it at the moment!
I had a very productive saturday this week (in terms of browny points), and managed to chop up the rest of the old chassis and get it scrapped, along with the roof. All that remains on the drive now is the old tub, minus the cappings, floor strips, and underbody support trips. I'll chop the tub up as soon as my new discs arrive in the post and get that scrapped too, then I can finally pressure washer the block paving and see how much the landlady complains at the stains!
Having discussed the cooling investigations earlier in the thread, I have just had something of a curve-ball come my way. I have been agonising slightly over my exhaust options (to make it mot'able) and whether standard 50th anniversary spec exhausts will fit the hedman hedders, and support the lambda sensors required. In the end I managed to find a custom stainless exhaust place near where we're moving too. They're called Z.E.K fabrications, and they're based in Chard. I gave the owner James a call this morning and had a very good chat with him. It turns out that he also does custom rads an oil coolers, and has done some bowler-type racing landy work in the past. I'm going to pop down and have a chat with him face to face, but it may work out quite well if I can trailer the rolling chassis to him to have the cooling and exhausts systems fitted whilst we're moving house. Here's the website in case anyone is interested:
http://www.jekfabrications.co.uk/contact-us/
I'll hopefully get to look around some of his previous jobs, and with any luck he'll be able to take the landy before we move house, and then I can pick it up once the dust has settled after the move. Who in their right mind moves house twice during a landy build!?!?!?! Thankfully this should be the last move... ever.
In other news, the front-to-rear brake line is fitted, and left in a coil in front of the bulkhead, pending fitting of the pedals etc. I also ran the HP fuel hose and LP return pipes, but have since realised I need to install the inner-chassis-rail mounted fuel filter, as per a v8 efi disco 1. This should arrive from LRdirect today, and then I can give Demon Tweeks a bell to get some fuel pipe adapters of the correct thread. After this, I just need to find some neat bracket/clamp solutions to hold the brake line, HP fuel hose, and LP return hose all next to each on top of the chassis rail. The rubber coated stainless P-clips take up too much room - although they're fine up until the lines reach the top of the chassis rail.
To say that progress has slowed would be something of an understatement, but it's just the way it has to be until my house-move-dictated-spending-ban is lifted. At least it seams like I might have a way forward now with the cooling & exhaust stuff. I think I'll now prioritise getting the rear-end stuff finished (fueling, electrics), and get the rear tub sprayed and fitted. The new rear tub is in Keswick green, but it's modern 2k paint I think and the shade certainly doesn't match my coach enamel. I'll just give it a coat of primer and a coat of enamel to get the shades matching, and then it should be good. I've already bought the galv outer-body-mounting brackets from YRM, along with the high tensile (A4-80) stainless fixings. I also need to source the 4 diagonal bracing strips which brace the outer-tub against the load area of the tub. The mouting of the rear tub, and anything else I get done, is now focused on having a tidy mass to be able to trailer safely between places. I guess pedals, electrics, and dash board would be next after the tub.
