Lauren's 1985 Kouki Trueno

[Lauren]

Meanhwile:


Bearding news:

Needed to re-make the electrical connections on the starter following 'that' incident in June at Anglesey where the car wouldn't start. To be fair it's only happened once since, but such things need sorting.

Also wanted to wrap the manifold to prevent it slowly cooking passengers' feet.

Plus needed to change the split steering gaiter.

Manifold out and Mark playing the pipes:



More tunes! Apparently it's part of a ritual, a bit like when he was playing the brake master cylinder, but I think this was more of a challenge:



Manifold clear, you can see the oil cooler sandwich plate and lines here, though what we want to get at is the starter just behind it:



Connetors to starter checked and cleaned up:



Meanwhile, manifold is partially wrapped:



Whilst I got busy with the steering gaiter, the old and the new (Toyota parts of course):



Probably a bit too much red lithium grease, but it'll be fine:



Mark in deep concentration (tongue out is a dead give away!) cleaning connectors:



New steering gaiter on:



As much of the manifold as we could wrapped:





Mark re-sheathed the wires to the started:



Mark re-routed the cable so it was further away from the exhaust and cable tied it in place:





Bolting the manifold back up to the cat. Hopefully the wrap will stop the floor getting so hot!