Cheers dave - I chopped it off and now works fine
Catch up time
Headlining is in, after working out how to sort that pesky aerial lead, I just unplugged it from the radio and then unthreaded it from the dash, then fed it back through in the right place. Took a while but better than lifting the roof again and disturbing the sealant. I also had to patch up the split, by cutting off a spare piece from the overlap and sticking it on the back
Quarter panels next. The N/S one was ok, just needed cleaning up, bit of paint and new vinyl. O/S had rusted through on the front lower corner.
Chopped it out and welded in a new bit
Painted them up with some spare paint I found,
Then on with vinyl and back on the car.
I stripped the heater down as much as I needed to, and gave the rust a good ol’ wire brushing before treating it with some converter.
There was plenty of rust to play with but no holes, so good news there.
These little rubber corners were pretty much ronnied but as they are no longer available, I was careful not to break them.
I had some fun with the control arm as the splines had gone. I drilled out the pin (which shouldn’t have been there anyway) and managed to snap the end off
(top one) I managed to find one but was told that the fitting at the other end was damaged (bottom one), so I thought I could make a good one out of the two. Well, that didn’t work as they are totally different so I had to get one from the scrapyard (centre).
The flaps had been refoamed sometime in the past, except for the middle one which had disintegrated almost completely.
I used some mouse mat foam to refoam them. Hopefully they will last a good while now.
The control rods on the side of the heater had been repaired badly sometime in the past and one of them was too long :shock:
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When I first got the car, the halogen headlights were fitted but didn’t always work. To make them reliable I had to fit some original sealed beam units. After the fuse box melting problem a year or so ago, I decided to fit some relays for the headlamps and try to get the halogens to work. I used the original wiring to fire the relays whilst running the power straight to the relays from the back of the light switch – from the shunt to switch wire. They are certainly a lot brighter than the sealed units so excellent result there
Sparky has always had a problem with the wipers. They would not ‘self park’ and could not be turned off without turning them to ‘delay’ and disconnecting the delay system from under the bonnet. So I took the motor apart. After a good clean up I found a switch (arrowed) behind the drive gear which should have been actuated by the lump on the gear wheel. The two screws were loose and allowed the switch block (inside of the plastic 5 pin plug where the power comes in) to move away from the motor so the switch wasn’t pushed in far enough.
When back together I had a look for the piece of foam which is supposed to be in the delay mechanism and found a small circle of plastic and some dirt, which I suppose used to be foam. I cut out a circle of foam and dropped it in, and now it works, well to a fashion anyway. The adjuster on the steering column doesn’t work but turning to the switch to ‘delay’ gives a delay of a few seconds but is not yet adjustable. Better than nothing and sorting the adjuster and tubing out is now on 'the list.'
It would be all together and driving about now if the brake caliper had not started leaking :evil:
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So he looks like this at the moment, a week to go before back on the road, no seats yet and now no brakes :twisted:
Richard