New Parts but not a lot of work.

A general lack of disposable funds and family commitments have meant that not a huge amount has happened in the last couple of weeks. There are some good bits of news though.
The metal parts are away being blasted so they'll hopefully be back soon, ready to be painted.

In the meantime I've been dismantlling the front braking components. I'd planned to refurbish the callipers and replace all the perishables but unfortunately even though I'd soaked it in penetrating oil I managed to snap off one of the calliper bleed nipples. An Easy-Out utterly failed to get it out so it began to look like a replacement was the only sensible option. Once I'd compared prices of pads, discs, calipers etc, a deal on eBay at £140 seemed the best value for money, so I bought this little lot:


I've also got a replacement alloy thermostat housing from eBay.

In other big news, I won a driver's door, too. An absolute bargain at £40 especially since it was only 15 miles away. The seller turned out to be a really nice bloke who had previously restored 2 MGBs and he has a whole load of misc spares and I've ordered the following from him:

1x Water Pump
2x Front indicator & Sidelight assemblies
2x Reverse lamp lenses

I'll be picking those parts up shortly.

So actually not too shabby in the progress stakes; I'm going to spend some time getting the last bits off for the engine to come out.