Stripping the engine bay metal items

I spent the day stripping the metal items from the engine bay with Nitromors and elbow grease. Cat's father has a sand blasting cabinet and has kindly offered to tidy them up for me but the caked-on Hammerite was best stripped off before hand.

The items went from this:


To this:


Hmm it doesn't look all that different but what you see there is about 4 hours work! They'll be great when they've been blasted and painted.

I also prepared the brake calipers for painting but then managed to shear off one of the bleed nipples so I may just jack it in and buy a pair of new calipers.

One other thing I nearly achieved today was the removal of the heater from the engine bay. I followed Mr. Haynes's instructions and found that it was stuck in with some kind of adhesive but even after I broke the seal, there's something else holding it in so I'll return to that next week.

The final thing I did was re-fit the rebuilt clutch slave cylinder with a new split pin.

More pictures here.