Im bleeding! And mr gasket sucks.

My clutch and brakes with some success.  I lost the mity vac during the move, I'm sure it'll show up after I'm done. As usual.
Found a few loose brake fittings that got snugged down.  Just need help with a proper bleed. The front bleeders are a 7/16 wrench, the rears are just hella small.

Now. On to the fuel pump.  I installed a mr gasket 42s Pump about a year ago in hopes of filling the tank and firing the old girl right on up.
Blew air through all the line's and they're clear. So that's not it.

It's supposed to be a self priming pump. But it doesn't.
I tried putting gas into the line to prime it, but it spit it back out.
Finally after several tries I removed it to prime it by hand.
The filter that came with it came loose- quality😉👍
Then the outlet port / backflow prevention device fell out with hose stretched.  It was just pressed on, not screwed.

Piece of crap Mr gasket pump.
 Press fit nipple came off outlet side.

Either of these while driving could cause you to grind to a halt or a fire.
Mind you this is a brand new, never used pump.
* Read the reviews before purchasing. * Amazon has a pretty good review section

Windshield done!

 The windshield frame comes apart.. With one slight problem.  The passenger side held water.  Thus the angle bracket screws were rusted in place.

So the job of doom begins...

Original triplex glass... Headed for the dumpster. Last on the road 1990 btw...

The offending bracket. The two thru the lower rail screws rusted in situ. Drilled the heads off of them.  Then one of the side screw heads stripped so with a little wiggling the bracket broke the head off of it.

So you're thinking dang, now I have to pay $45 for a frigging piece of steel. I refuse.  After finding the back side of the threads they were drilled out with a small bit, then for tapping it was drilled with an 11/64" bit and tapped w a 10-32. The tap and die set paid for itself just with this project!

Now about the pesky screw in the side rail

So here's what I tried, welding a screw to the broken part- worked but wouldn't extract.
So that got ground down and center punched and driled for a 10-32, that didn't work.  So I jumped to a 13/64 bit and tapped it for a 1/4-20. Couple hours total, but I'm ready to start putting the windshield back together.👍

Sorry about not having pics of the in between wrestling match , but here it is... Hasn't cracked yet.  Glass from Victoria British ( unknown origin) fit pretty well.
Took  about 3 hours and about 1.5 of that was wrestling the little upper bars into position to get screws in.  After it settles down I have some windshield sealant to put on and the lower body gasket which is supposed to be just as bad.

Almost done, or not. Fuel overflow lines...

So I thought I was done with the underside of the b.
Turns out....
I needed to wire a new ground for the group 26 12v battery, replace an axle strap that ripped without ever being on the road, bleed clutch and brakes, and install "toms knob"(the air intake drain tube), AND prime the fuel pump!

This is what's inside the stainless lines fuel overflow lines. Although the braided part will last another 50 years, the inner perished years ago, allowing gas fumes to get into the trunk and the evaporation system out of service.

THEN it can be put on its new tires that have never touched the ground.

Shrimp and cream cheese stuffed jalapenos. Just to break up the monotony.

going back together!

So started putting stuff back together.
Building heater box, bolting on intake carbs, exhaust. Brake and clutch lines, charcoal filter, etc...

Starting to re acquaint myself with the wiring from, oh I dunno a year ago.
I started going through all the lights and making sure they worked.
  The problem children were the front turn indicators, btw the all orange lens was only made for a few years so I wanted to keep them awhile. The
Inner chroming came off so they were aluminized .
 The original contacts were shot along with the spring so I went to Dorman products for 2.99 vs $37 ea. for new lights.
I had to shave a little off the contacts disk so it would move easily in the light housing.  Just line up the tab on the disk to the bulb slot so the contacts will match up.

Extreme body mods.

So, about the problem of having to undo the clutch line from the chassis if needing to fix or remove a part...
There are 2 large washers sandwiching the frame part between them.

Done painting

So after wet sanding the massive orange peel out of the original spray w 1000 grit, the car got its final paint today...

I guess GM got something right in the past, cool color.

I was in a conundrum today due to the 87% humidity, but a brief shower today kept temps in the low 70s w light winds.  

After adding extra reducer  it sprayed pretty nice.

Had to pull front fenders to get door fronts painted and also because dot 4 brake fluid on nearly new paint will eat a hole down to the primer.

So had to fix that from last time.

Feeling fathom green around the gills

So the weather warmed after 5 days of rain, I got time to try to finish some painting...
High temp today 85*, 50% humidity.
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It took to the last ounce of a gallon of paint to figure out how to shoot this stuff as easy as shooting
with a spray can.  I imagine there will be some touch up here and there after.
The paint was spitting out the gun again, I added a couple oz. of thinner to the paint itself, mixed thoroughly and then mixed it to its 8:2:1 ratio.
Also found that I mixed the 1.4 gun needle with the 1.8 tip. Also hooked a second larger compressor inline with the other so there was plenty of air.
If I had not wasted several cups of paint figuring out what was happening, there would be plenty of leftover touchup.  Paintforcars never answered my email question from a month ago.
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 Fortunately and unfortunately my phone doesn't take the best pics:

 Fathom Green- drying as I type this

It really is a cool color, kinda a fancy mossy woody color

Again, the color changes in different lights

The camera doesn't show all the flaws,  Wait did I say flaws? No flaws here.

Same angle without the flash...

After I assess the paint when it dries, then parts can get thrown on the MGB