Pedal box progress.
The 7/8” master cylinder reservoir is too big under the strut tower, so I have bought one with a smaller reservoir like the brake MCs.
Removed some more tar off the floor - only bit left is the stuff on the inside of the rear quarter and the underside of the roof.
Earlier estimate of about 20kg of floor tar still seems about right.
The tailshaft centre bearing … usual 240 tailshaft bolts being a turd to remove, and confirmed the bearing is stuffed.
Seems that the seal on bearing was damaged and allowed moisture in, which has then rusted when the car sat around.
The bearing came off fairly nicely and now I have to wait for the new ones to arrive.
I measured the old one and it comes up as a 6009 2RS. I bought four of them off eBay for about 150% of the price of one “Volvo centre bearing”.
Onto mounting the fuel system.
Fuel tank needs another strap (side to side), but it is close to where it needs to be. 
Dash back in place. It has been bent in the past, for reasons that I don’t understand. Makes reassembly a real turd.
Other news is that the bell housing has a big weld repair… and another new crack.
I can only assume that there is something pretty significantly wrong with this box/clutch/flywheel.
The car came with a M45 and another clutch/FW, so I think it will all have to go in. I had been hoping to keep the M40 and probably fit an early 140 box at a later date, but apparently not.
(The early 140 M40 has less terrible ratios than the early 240 M40, which has less terrible ratios than the M45).
Maybe something will happen with a spare Toyota Crown M40 box in the future.
Or maybe not.
Anyway, it is about to be evicted from the shed so I can do some work on some other people’s cars.
