Hi Malcolm,
So, where to start with this?
After my last post funding for the Mk III restoration was not available for a few years, and it was taken outside and covered up.
About a year back (maybe longer, @Lauren Child what do you think?), we got given the green light to get back on with it and massive progress was made.
All the hull wiring was redone, a replacement main engine was sourced and installed with the clutch and gearbox.
We were also very lucky in that we managed to get Barney back (anyone familiar with the MVW will know Barney - cent man through and through). He was vital when it came to getting the engline, clutch and gearbox back in, and I'd need to pick his brains as to how he managed it. But I think it involved aligning the gearbox to the final drives, then the clutch to gearbox and engine.
The replacement engine has been giving us some grief and looks like the valve timing keeps on slipping, @Lauren Child Myself and a couple of others have become a dab hand at timing the valves and the magnetos but it seems to slip....
Unfortunately there has been another reorganisation with the IWM and I am unsure at the moment as to what the DAS MVW's involvement with the MkIII will be. I haven't been in several months as it's been cricket season and I managed to slip a disk. Hope to be back the week after the Battle of Britain show. Can ask Barney then for you.
Cheers
Paul