Well I (and the Beach Buggy) have relocated once more… below are a few pictures of the Buggy when it came out of the garage for the first time in a year. I have to say, my enthusiasm came right back when I got it out and got to admire it from a different angle. There wasn’t much missing on the Buggy then, a few more hoses around the engine and some welding to finish off the copper pipes running under the floor pan.

Recently I got around to fitting those last hoses and the copper pipe has finally been welded. I’ve spent a few hours synchronising the carburettors and checking that the coolant system is air tight for the big day.

For the latter, I bought a tool from Sealey which is the one you can see on the last picture of this post, it has to be the most ingenious garage tool I have bought this year… it can check you cooling system for leaks by removing all air from the system and allowing you to monitor the vacuum pressure on the manometer on top of the tool. If the pressure is maintained, the system is free from leaks and you can proceed to fill the system with antifreeze. But here comes the ingenious part, the tool uses the same under pressure it created to test the system to fill the system with antifreeze and because the system didn’t have any air in it, you can rest assured that you don’t have any airlocks. Genious!

Unfortunately my system did have leaks and I am currently in the process of finding and sorting these out.