Good day in the workshop today.
First job was to fit the TPS to the Carb in readiness for the arrival of my trigger wheel which will mean engine startup...gulp!
Couple of issues I encountered were:
1. TPS is made to go on the right hand side of the carb, just where the throttle linkage is in the Weber supplied kit???
2. The main mounting bracket is supposed to screw to the body using 2 threaded holes in the casting, my carb only has 1!
Swapping the linkage wasn't to bad, had to bend the throttle adjustment stop 180 deg so it would work on the other side and will have to figure out how to fix the cable stop as its currently mounted using a nice cast mount point which is now on the wrong side, worst case scenario I will have to tig a block onto the manifold.
The missing mounting hole can be sorted with a strip of Ali from the trumpet retaining nut back to the mount, ill do it next time im up the workshop.
The almost finished article :-)
TPS mounted, you can see the nearest mounting hole is currently mounted to thin air
The throttle linkage now on the other side, the throttle arms on the right is only pointing up as I still need to work out mounting the end of the cable.
Next job was a bit of Ali fabrication
Can you guess what it is yet?
Its made of 5mm Ali plate and is the soon to patented combination mechanical fuel pump blanking plate / Ford Gen 2 coil pack mounting bracket. best your still none the wiser. At this stage I was hoping to Tig it up and get the coil pack mounted as I received my nice custom plug leads yesterday. Unfortunately some idiot forgot to turn off the gas at the cylinder last time he used the TIG and the bottle is empty so have ordered a new one and given the offender a good talking too, subtle hint is that I was alone today as Dave is currently on DIY duties allocated by his SWMBO.......
Moved onto the wiring again, got the rear loom all bound up in very fetching red spiral wrap and finally secured, Tick!
Nest I started to undo some of the work already done so I could use the lovely retro combined ignition / light switch. A couple of issues as its a simple on/off key switch with an accessories position but I found some natty little bus bars I had lying around and soon had the ignition switch working along with a nice little high amperage push button to start, all tested and signed off...Tick!
Next was the lighting which had me scratching my head as the switch uses the main feed into the switch for the ignition to power the lights but the loom has a separate fused supply for the headlights... 2nd bus bar fitted and the side and tail lights now work fine off the switch. ended up doing a bit of lateral thinking and used the headlight feed off the switch to trigger a relay so I could continue to use the loom fused power to the headlights via the column switch. By the end of the day I had power in all the right places at the right time without loss of loom smoke for
Sidelights
Headlamps Dipped
Headlamps Main Beam
Headlamp Flasher
Was enjoying myself so much I was interrupted by a call from home to ask where I was as I should left an hour earlier!
Hopefully will get some more workshop time next week as I am between projects, hopefully at Least 2 days so my aim for next week is to get the motor running...GULP!
TTFN
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