Dismantling the Engine Bay...

I nearly finished work on the Maestro yesterday, so to celebrate this acheivement I decided to attack the engine bay of the MG. While I did that, my girlfriend (thenceforth referred to as Cat) got a 'Magic Sponge' and began to clean the interior.

Rather pleasingly, almost everything yielded to the socket and it didn't take long to get it from this:


To this:



The only bad thing to report is that there is evidence of bodgery in the engine bay: the brush-painted panels (in the wrong colour), a brake servo held on with only one of the three bolts, assorted and wrong sized bolts here and there, other repainted items that haven't been stripped before being painted the wrong colour and evidence of items being painted without first having been removed.... I guess this is to be expected with an old car that's had quite a few owners over the years though! Never fear as this will all be put right as it gets reassembled and this will be greatly assisted by a bag of nuts, bolts and fixings that Simon handed over to me with the car.

Oh - there is one other thing to report: Mr ratty had indeed been at work, chewing through a few wires in the engine bay so I guess we'll wait and see what he's done to the dash wiring as well!

More pictures here.