Thursday 1pm, flywheel and modified adaptor plate arrived from Dieselhead (Tim):
Unfortunately during transit 2 of the clutch alignment pins on the flywheel got snapped off:
So out with the drill and stud extractors and pulled out snapped pins, heated up my old flywheel and removed good pins to insert into new flywheel:
Re-attached plate to back of engine, fitted new (cleaned up) flywheel, fitted clutch:
Put starter motor into place to check alignment and all looks good:
Spent rest of yesterday afternoon re-fitting gearbox -- on my back with a single trolley jack
, prop-shaft etc, at 9pm decided time to come in.
Started again at 8am this morning, just needed to torque all bolts, connect starter, re-connect battery, lower van off axle stands and turn the key
Turns over lovely with no growling noises and started straight up (quietest the starter has ever been)... drove round the block and all was good, so at 11am went off to work, home at 5pm and all is going well