Well, it's been a busy couple of days. After putting the valve covers on, I got the thing running and tried to break in the cam. It was loud and lovely. This time I opened all the windows first to avoid passing out on the garage floor.
The fun stopped when coolant started spraying everywhere from the overflow nipple. I let her cool off and cleaned up the mess.
I set up a makeshift expansion tank. We'll see how it works later on. Don't confuse it with the jerry tank I use as a gas tank. The cap is different.
I then turned my attention elsewhere. I decided to finally get the brakes working and started by cleaning out the old brake fluid in the master cylinder and filling it up with some fresh DOT-5 and bleeding it.
The mounting itself involved fabbing an adapter bracket since I don't have the brake booster that's supposed to go there. Luckily, the PO had made one to fit the VW brake booster he was planning on using so four of the holes were drilled already. I decided to drill and tap and used four of the shiny new bolts
@halifaxhops sent me!
Forgot to trim the excess for the first installation attempt. Naturally.
But now it's there! Next step will be brake lines! I got myself a roll of copper-nickel tube and a bag of adhesive cable anchors. I'm only going for a short drive so I don't need proper hardware, methinks.
I'm missing the rod that pokes the master piston, though. Can't find one in the stuff that came with the car. They can't be impossible to find, though.
