21st May - Wipers move and fuel gauge twitches

Another bunch of bits completed over the weekend!


ELECTRIKERY

Relocated the washer bottle and 'leccy pump forward of their original position so they now clear the turbo hosing. Then the windscreen wiper was wired in with the bits of cable from Turkey. Power applied and they both work - wiper even parks!

......so now two of the dash panels could be bolted in place.

While I was doing coloured string I also fitted the 'white' reversing lamp (ex Triumph Dolomite I believe) above the rear number plate light and cabled this through (with an inline fuse). This also worked - first time too. Woooo hoooo!

Going back to my fuel gauge issue from a month or so back. I dug out a Series 3 type gauge and rigged that up. The fuel meter then went up but then dropped to zero - then went back up - then dropped again...

http://www.series2club.info/forum/index.php/topic,43439.msg400407.html#msg400407

Checking out the circuit I found that the supply from the voltage regulator was the cause. It goes up and down like a proverbial whor**...... You know the saying ;) So this looks to be FUBARRED?

....so I have just ordered an electronic one incl. P&P for £9. ---> http://classicstabilizers.webs.com/information.htm

So now to either fit the fuel gauge segment into the S2/2A round instrument or I will need to refurb the S3 unit and fit that?


INTERIOR/EXTERIOR etc.

Fitted the new seat cushions with leather securing ties. Tidy!

Looking at the bonnet it sits higher on one side than the other. 1" to the wing surface on one side and 1/4" on the other. Checking obvious things like wing position etc. they all were fine. Rad panel is also square. For the life of me I cannot work out why unless, maybe, the bonnet is twisted?

I still need to finish the mudshields on both front wings. The new one has been trimmed to fit and has had a coat of etch primer then Containergard. But...I have run out of fasteners. I will the lack of screws this week then they will be secure.

On the subject of Containergard. After the bonnet was painted and fitted a few weeks back I then came  home to find the bonnet well had filled with water - and the paint had discoloured - badly! What was in the water to cause it I do not know, but it has not happened anywhere else. The paint had been cured for at least a week before the rain settled.