This was all quite straightforward. Then came all the hose connections, which was a bit more tricky... trying to decide which hose went where, and cutting them all to the right length, was a bit of a jigsaw puzzle. Thankfully a friend at the Lotus Seven Owners Club forwarded me some photos from Sean at CC, showing how the hoses ought to be routed - this made life much easier, but I still had to be a little creative with the routing of the hoses around the heater area. Firstly these hoses foul on the engine air inlet filter, and secondly routing the hoses down to the oil cooler 'modine' unit was difficult due to the ever-present washer bottle (which seems to get in the way of everything!). Anyway, I think I've got all the waterworks sorted now:
The heater control cable went in OK, and then I went around with a bunch of cable-ties making sure all the hoses were located tightly and not flapping about in the breeze. There was only just enough hose to go around, by the way, and I also had to buy a couple of spare 25mm hose clips.
Final job in the engine bay was to install the throttle cable, which I thought was going to be easy but turned out to be a bit of a pain. Firstly the throttle pedal didn't have a slot in it for the throttle cable to fit through, so I had to get the hacksaw out (always a bit worrying when you start cutting bits off a new car, and you're not quite sure if you are doing it correctly!). Secondly the throttle cable seemed to be a couple of inches too long to be able to adjust correctly. Scratched my head for a while over this one, until I noticed that pedal mounting bush had been bolted on the wrong hole (there are two possible threaded holes in the footwell!). Anyway when I changed to the alternate mounting hole everything lined up OK and I could adjust the cable tension correctly to get the full range of motion on the inlet diaphragm.
Job's a good 'un!
Total work hours so far: 55
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