Progress has been slow on this of late as I am trying to sort out my Cortina so it is back on the road for summer.
I had a go at annealing the sealing ring, not sure if I got it hot enough with my little blowtorch but fingers crossed.
I split the air filter/choke by grinding away the folded-over edge and drilling out the centre rivet, then straightened it out as best I could. I then welded a new lever on the inner piece. welding it back together was a pain, it kept catching the inner so I had to grind the weld off and start again. It ended up looking a bit dog-eared so I wrapped some metal pipe insulation tape around it.
I did manage to have a couple of hours on it this afternoon, it now looks like this. next job is to clean out the fuel tank and then it will be a case of seeing if it will actually run.
I now seem to be sharing my limited workshop space with one of my O/Hs projects...