ROJ finds a friend
Before Christmas an Aston Martin V8 appeared on ebay, it looked as if it had been in some disagreement with a lamp post. It was light blue and an M reg like ROJ.
Now I will not deny I was tempted to add a fourth Aston to my stable, but it would have just been silly. So I let it pass. Someone else didn’t, and the car ended up not far away from Bedford.
On Saturday on my way up to work on ROJ I dropped in to see it - and was amazed at what the guys had managed to achieve in getting it straight. Artistry almost equal to the Great Malcolm. If I get permission, I will post a couple of photos on here.
Of course I had to return the favour and show them over ROJ - respect, I deduced, was entirely mutual.
After they had pushed off I set to work - cleaned up and refitted the handbrake mechanism and cleaned out the hypoid unit ready to refit that next trip. On the back cover of the diff was an odd hole, I checked the manual and it said there should be a ‘breather pipe’ Well this had obviously gone missing ages ago. So without knowing quite what i was looking for, I spent an hour sifting through boxes and tins without unearthing anything that looked even faintly right.
I gave up, deciding I would have to buy the part from Puddleducks and took a coffee break. Came back and started work on the rear suspension fittings, and there in the bottom of the box was an odd little bent fitting - aha! tried it in the hole on the diff and voila! One breather pipe.
Here are a couple of photos of this weekend’s work:
Nicely restored brake reservoirs
 
The parts of the handbrake lever before cleaning
 
Hypoid unit opened up and the gunge cleaned out
and finally, long lost breather pipe fitment
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