Not too much progress of late but the engine is ready to go in & the LT77 has almost been prepared. We're just waiting for a spigot bush to be fabricated by Park Engineering up in Malton who made the bespoke one for my Oxford.
Cleaned & painted with the duck egg blue engine paint:
The modified Bell housing, remote & new poly mounts fitted. The rather crude hole in the bottom of the bell housing is due to be TIG-welded up:
The release bearing which will continue to be lubricated with grease rather than its own oil supply:
This is how it was in the 2000 it originally came from, it ran for 9000 miles & there was still plenty of grease in it & no wear on the bearing & seeing as it only spins when the clutch is engaged it should be a safe enough bet that at least another multiple thousand mile stint should be possible before any problems that might arise do arise & if they do we'll revisit the box when it happens.
After the discovery that the recommendation of a 1.6 Sierra plate didn't work out, we now have a clutch plate that fits, from the Sd1 2000 which is what l was looking for in the first place & confirmed by Demetris. I bought two NOS plates from Gordon at Roverpart of London:
The current rear mount is a bit corroded & flimsy so a stronger one will be made & fitted: