24 October 2020 Back in the garage today. Completed pulling the loom out of the engine bay and back in to the cabin. Getting to the ECU required drilling out 2 rivet and then 4 nuts. The loom is piled up in the drivers side of the cabin. Disconnected the power steering lines and unbolted the fluid reservoir, removed the radiator and air filter housing. I undid the roll bar mountings from the body and also disconnected the brake hard lines from the subframe bracket. I need to chop the brackets out and send to Andy to be welded onto the new chassis. Also disconnected the clutch hard line where it is bolted to the body shell. The clutch line takes an odd route from the offside across to the nearside and then a joint takes it back to the clutch slave cylinder on the offside again. I won't be doing that on the new build! Also on the nearside by the clutch line bracket is an engine earth that was removed. I disconnected the carbon canister and associated pipework apart from the fuel lines. I will need a tool to release the fuel hoses which is on order. I moved to the rear of the car, undoing the wiring in the boot, removing the rear lights, aerial and the boot lock (which has a solenoid release on it). I pulled all the wiring back in to the cabin. The main battery cable and earth need to be pushed down through the body before I can lift it off the subframes. I removed the screws holding the fuel filler neck to the body, 2 of them unscrewed but the other 2 were rusted solid, so I drilled the heads off. I undid the hose clamps, removed the filler and breather hoses from the tank and withdrew the filler pipe. Then I drained the fuel tank, there's no drain plug on my car so I undid the screws holding the fuel pump/level assembly to the top of the tank and carefully lifted it out so I could insert the pipe into the fuel and syphon it out. I used a plastic fuel syphon pump to drain the fuel in to a fuel can. Underneath the car my electric impact wrench made short work of the nuts and bolts holding the various underbody cross members that need to be removed to get to the exhaust. I undid one of the bolts holding the back box on but the other will need to be cut off with my angle grinder, but that will need to wait for the fumes from draining the fuel tank to clear! Things left to do before I can lift the body, disconnect the handbrake cable, undo the fuel lines, remove the exhaust, disconnect the brake hard lines at the back, remove the starter motor wiring, undo the suspension top bolts and the subframe bolts.
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