Last few jobs before body

The heater unit still needs to be completed which I hope to do tomorrow, however, in the meantime I have managed to wrap up a few smaller jobs that needed doing ready for the body fitting. 

First up was to fit two p-clips to the fuel lines where they pass by the rear suspension arm. This was mainly to guarantee they didn't foul on the arm, which would be an IVA fail. The hardest bit of this job was drilling laid on my back under the car, it took over an hour to do just this job.

Next was to mark out and cut the hole for the fuel filler pipe to fit through, a fairly straight forward task that took just a few minutes with the angle grinder. 

Finally, it was time to cut the hole for the gear selector to fit through, This is one of the tasks I have been worried about because its easy to measure up wrong and until the body is on I wouldn't know if I had chosen the right gear select position (The T56 has to choices of selector position about two inches apart - I had it on the default rear select position)

To work out where the hole needed to be I marked on a piece of wood where the bolt holes where on the chassis and a mid point between these two holes. I then measured forward to the selector. Marking on the wood allows the wood to be held in position on the body giving a solid surface to measure forward down the tunnel to put a mark on the tape.

Next I measured the width of the tunnel, and the width of the chassis to calculate that I needed to be 10.5 cm across from the passenger side of the tunnel. 2 mins later I had a 3mm pilot hole.

I chose to use a large hole cutter to ensure I had enough room to bolt on the gear lever; I could have chosen a smaller one in case I had got the measurements wrong but I thought "lets live dangerously" - hopefully I wont regret that decision later!

So all that's left before the body goes on is a trial fit to test the extended heater tunnel, fit the heater, pedal box and servo and then I'm ready to go - I think.

Exciting times :-)