Sebastien - Great photos, you have a lot of nice toys.
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Scratching The Surface:
The good news is I am slowly catching up on all my non car related stuff.
The bad news is that I just can't find the time for a decent session on the car.
But I do know that if I get out of the habit of working on it, it is much harder to start again.
So as long as I can do even a little bit of tinkering that is still a good thing.
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I plan to use a thin layer of bonding paste between the petrol cap base base ring and the body shell.
But I will also use some rivets to hold everything in the right place until the bonding stuff has set.
So whilst the ring will
look like it is only fixed in by the rivets, but it will actually be more secure.
This meant drilling six holes around the outside for the rivets to sit.
Then I drilled a pilot hole so I can cut out the inner circle when I finally get some new jigsaw blades.
Finally, I just tidied up the hole edges with my angle grinder.
Although it did make a refreshing change to be pulling metal splinters out of my fingers, rather than fibreglass ones.
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Then I found the box with my fog light switch in.
( I'm still lovin' my new box filing / index system.
)
This originally came with a three pin socket fitted to it like this.
So I pulled out the box with all my spare wiring in it, so see if I had a match.
The good news is that I do have the other side of the socket.
The bad news is that it appears that I have already "recycled" one of the three wires for another part of the loom.
Still, at least I can remove the pin and
carefully re-wire it if I need to.
But first I just need to double check the Spitfire wiring diagram to work out just how many wires I need & where I will re-attach this to the loom.
Thankfully that is a job I can easily do indoors, regardless of the weather outside.
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Side Repeaters - To fit, or not to fit?
I posted a link to the rules about side repeaters on the
Tribute side of the fence the other day, which got me thinking.
My car is actually old enough to be legally driven without side repeaters.
But given the generally poor driving standards in London, I thought they might be worth fitting anyway.
Plus I had a spare set after I decided they were too small to use as front indicators.
I have already built in the required connections into the loom, but they would be easy to blank off.
The last time I looked at options for fitting them, I realised they would highlight the difference on each side of the body shell.
But now I plan to extend the body shell to include the bottom of the bonnet, so this problem will go away.
Anyway, thinking about the wiring for the fog light switch is tempting me to make a decision about this one way, or the other.
Question:
Do you think fitting these side repeaters is a good idea?
- Will it look like an old racing car put back on the road recently with modern lighting?
( Similar to my old style wooden dash, with some modern heater controls fitted underneath. )
- Or will it look more like a modern car pretending to be an old car?
Obviously I know the last statement is what I am
actually doing, but I wont tell anyone if you don't.
Note:
I will not be able to fit an ageless number plate until after the car is on the road with an MOT.
Although the decision to buy one may well depend on how much I have spent by that point.
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So that's all for now, until next time, take care, Paul.