A good day today. Replaced the flex brake hoses and rear brake linings. Topped up the differential oil level, removed and cleaned the breather and found the source of the diff oil leak (I hope). The bolts holding the seals on each side of the diff, where the driveshafts exit, were quite loose. I tightened the bolts as best I could with a conventional 15mm wrench and I hope that does the job.

The diff oil level plug was in quite tight. I used a 16" breaker bar on a half inch drive 14mm allen bit and I still had to use a framing hammer as a pursuader.

Now all I have to tackle are

- exhaust hangers (trivial)
- flare on 2/3 (not too bad) and 3/4 (more severe) shifts, start with the modulator valve
- leaking transmission fluid from front of transmission, likely torque converter and/or front pump seals
- suspected oil weep from rear main engine seal
- replace flex disks when tranny out
- replace all engine belts
- replace fan clutch
- sort vac system as suspect its mis-plumbed
- sort fast idle
- test aux fan
- remove trim and get it painted
- new softtop and assorted softtop seals
- finally., new front torsion bar bushings

Simple to maintain, these cars? It has to be a hobby ...