[DaveD_XB]

I stripped down all the oil, grease & crap from the engine bay & gave it a few coats of new black paint to make it look half decent & cleaned up the extractors with some heat resistant paint





Now when I bought the car the heater hoses on the engine where cut, so instead of heading thru the firewall into the heater core the engine inlet & outlet that feeds the heater core where just joined by a bent hose, as can be seen in the old dirty engine bay pic above… now I knew that this meant that the heater core leaked… & I also knew that the heater core would be a ***** to remove whilst the dash was in place… so I did the only thing I could, at the time the biggest job I’d ever attempted on a car on my own





Whilst the car was clearly not going anywhere for a while I also decided to fix the leaking rear axles.. the bearings where well shot



Then with the help of a mate we dropped the new heart in…





Looked a bit better that the old before shot above I’m sure you’ll agree



Then it was time for a quick cut & polish to put some shine back into the old girl