Restoration of Hull 731- Carrier, MG (Aust) Mortar Carrying

[Darrin Wright]

Today I commenced putting the valve assemblies in to the engine. Individually washed each valve and its items and then fitted the valve into the guide and checked it for free movement, installed the valve spring and with a bit of lube, placed it into its hole in the block.
With a screwdriver made sure the guide was down far enought so the keeper could be installed.
Then using the pry bar lifted the spring and fitted the bottom retainer.
Managed to get 6 out of 8 valves installed on the right side of the engine and 2 on the left (these were the ones where the lifted was all the way down).

This took me about 5-10min per valve. Remember, it's not a race.

In the afternoon got sidetracked and painted the rear interior compartment, left hand side hull and the outer bottom right side of the hull. Not ideal painting conditions as the paint is still tacky after 3 hours.

[Darrin Wright]

Friday saw us drive to Shepparton in Vic, to collect my rebuilt diff and other parts that had been rebuilt by my Dad.
It was brought across by a friend and I just had to drive down the road to collect.
Saturday morning it was unloaded, with difficulty as it was bl___y heavy for my floor crane, and moved inside.
Some of the items to keep me going are the Gearbox internals, NOS steering wheel, steering box, conduit & water pumps.