Time spent: 3h
Cumulative time: 50h
Main activities:  engine electrics, expansion bottle and gearbox mount

A few wrap-ups following yesterday’s installation of the engine.  I managed to borrow an 3/8” Allen key from a neighbour (still waiting for an equivalent hex drive that can be used with my torque wrench), which was enough to get the imperial bolts to loosely fix the engine mounts to the neoprene isolation mounts.  I then torqued up the metric bolts that fixed the isolation mounts to the chassis. Feeling that the engine was now reasonably secure, but still needing the final tighten, I was comfortable with going under the car to finish off the gearbox support.  The fixing into the tapped holes in the chassis was tight (paint again I assume) but by tightening and then loosening half a turn, then tightening them again, it was doable.

Engine electrics were simple once I had found the connectors to plug into (located underneath the battery).  There are still a few loose connectors which I presume attach to devices I have yet to install.

[I subsequently realised that it would be good to connect the earth connection to the engine block at this point rather than later – access is a lot easier]

I then got on with the expansion bottle mount.  Not that difficult once you have found all the bits.  The image in the Assembly Guide is misleading with regards to the bolts that fix the rail to the car (they should be the black hex screws rather than bolts, at least based on the 170 I saw recently in Krazy Horse). [the expansion bottle wont quite sit straight on its support – the shape of the connecting hose means that it has to be a bit angled]