With the house to myself today, I moved inside to work on the kitchen table in the warmth for once. For anyone who’s ever thought that the only difference between a 4-cylinder (left) and a V6 (right) tachometer was the dial face and maybe a resistor or something round the back, prepare to be surprised… The inner workings of these things is fascinating – a blend of bi-metallic springs, resistors,…
You’re all correct and better illumination’s been part of the plan all along. It actually turns out that there was only one working bulb on the old set of clocks, so no wonder I thought it was dark anyway After robbing Peter to pay Paul and moving bulbs about, I finally had a full working set. The dash illumination ones are at 9, 11, 1 and 3 o’clock behind little…
This evening I had a spare hour, so I spent some time soldering the brass connectors from the 14-point multiplug onto the car loom. The best thing I can say about my soldering is that it’s secure, if a little workmanlike Luckily it’s out of sight behind the dashboard, and when you slot the doofers into the multiplug it all looks quite good I then moved into the engine bay…
After a week off from mucking about with the car, living the high life of a long weekend away in France, one’s mind naturally wanders to what the next job is going to be… The current dash has a number of faults – primarily that there’s no trip counter (so I don’t know how far it is since the last refill), but also because the gauges are vague (and don’t…
More rain this morning, but at least most of the garage roof leaks have now been fixed Was just out there tidying up really, and whilst admiring my recent handiwork had one of those “doh!” moments. Crouching down to look through the grille, I could see the fan, the relay and the thermostatic switch … and the noise of the rain on the roof made me think of rain and spray…
Ahhhhhhhhhhh! You would not believe how cold it is out in the garage tonight! Ran some wire through to the cockpit for the LED to show me when the fan’s on, and put it in its temporary position on the steering column shroud. It’s earthed onto the column itself, along with (I think) the ignition, so the wiring was straight-forward. The wire comes through the bulkhead to the right of…
OK, first up I’ll admit straight off that I spent some time putting a couple of coats of Hammerite on the fan shroud and my new brackets Having reassembled everything, I then drilled some holes in the bodywork to mount the brackets onto. To reduce vibration and noise, I wanted to put some kind of rubber isolator on each of the brackets … browsing the shelves of B&Q turned up trumps…
It is indeed a 12 volt LED, so hopefully none of that confusing stuff about resistors applies You lost me on the second sentence, Group4_Mark2 I just chose blue cos’ it looks cold, not for any technical reasons Had to go and get some more yellow crimp connectors at lunchtime, so got a multi-pack of lots of flavours and a packet of yellow piggy-back ones. This meant I could have a convenient take-off…
Went out shopping to Maplins armed with a big list and came back with a bagful of goodies A 30A relay, an in-line fuse holder with 20A fuse, some 30A and 3A wire and a nice little panel-mount blue LED… The thermostatic controller I got from the Staffordshire Vehicle Components stall at the NEC Classic appears to be much the same as any other generic thermostatic switch kit… Before starting, I’d spent a bit of…
Right, had some time in the garage this afternoon – football on the radio, tea in a Thermos, the smell of woodsmoke wafting in through the gaps in the roof First of all I hooked up the fan to the defibrillator to check that the thing actually worked and gave myself a surprise as it almost spun itself off the workbench … they’ve got quite some kick to them on startup. …
Back in the mists of time in November, a parcel of treasure did arrive from the land of ebay … Originally Posted by Stu.C … a radiator fan from an Escort RS Turbo… I forgot to check the address of the chappie that sent it, but I’m guessing this Escort lived in a seaside town and was owned by the bloke who ran the salted cod factory – no other explanation…