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I bought one of Martin's tubular manifolds off Trevor (Daytona) last year and have finally got round to fitting it to Bonnie.

I needed to fit a stub to take the servo vacuum take off and just happened to have the right size fitting to silver solder in place

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The two inlet manifold middle nuts are a swine to tighten up and I could only get an open end spanner end on to pull them up so I've sent for some cap head bolts to replace the studs. The fuel line and cable from the solenoid the starter needed a bit of repositioning but well out of the way now.
Started right up and ran smoothly but will need to wait for a test run.
 
Maybe a little but she already had an SU conversion with the modified standard manifolds (exhaust one was cracked and leaking). She should be a tad more efficient so a bit more economical. Hopefully.
 
After fitting brake servos to both Bonnie and Ted the traveller I decided, after a recent trip, that Harvey needed one too.
With the underfloor battery box I was pressed for space to fit the servo.

A bit of bracketry required

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A bit of armour plating was fashioned out of 2mm plate, that along with the substantial spars inside and out of the battery box should be enough to protect it. The servo sits a bit higher than the box and the valance so should be in a safe(ish) position.

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Love job that Panky! Does it works well? I used to have one but the pipe connector into the servo popped off and got dragged down the road and damaged it. Couldn’t find a replacement so it’s just idle now
 
Somewhere in the deep dark past Harvey was fitted with new rear lower quarters - from a Dodge

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Perfect spot for some reversing light but the stud on the back of the LED ones I has were a bit short to go through the inner panel. So I did a bit of lengthening

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I notched the stud and did the same on a matching length of stud

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Joined together by running a nut over the join and locked in place with another nut

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A new switch off Ebay screwed in place of the blanking plug. The wires have been tidied up since.

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And behold we have reversing lights and the Dodge bumper bracket holes have gone, pity they didn't hide the crappy bits of filling :)

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I think one of the LED circuits got fried on one of the lights when I was cutting the stud - it got a bit hot:rolleyes:
 
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