Wiring up my kit car
Lost the will to live looking at wiring diagrams
9 (?) versions of sierra column switch configurationsand colours
Jeez us wept
Is this the Cobra?
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What have you been doing today?
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Is this the Cobra?
Yes
How long left?
Doubt it will be done this year tbh
Just got the corvette back on the road
Transam in a couple weeks had all new brakes put on it
Refreshed engine with a performance cam engine all spruced up
So the cobra has taken a bit of a back seat
It’s at the rolling chassis stage
Suspension ,brakes, fuel tank radiator ,instruments ,steering wheels ,wired up
Got the engine , just needs a gearbox and it will be a runner , drivable ( chassis is self contained )
Than it’s the pia body fitment that will be a laugh ( not)
Relaxing, doing absolutely nowt much, apart from wait for Sunday lunch to be ready. All I've done so far, is chop an annoying tree root, at the very back of the garden. It's right where, the garden at the rear, drops down a slope, around a foot, where the tractor picks up speed. I've hit it a few times with the tractor/mower, which brings it to a very sudden, and sometimes painful stop. Problem was, it was near impossible to see where the root was, until now. Having found it, I got the extension reel out, and the reciprocating saw, and cut it.
I was planning to get the car out of the garage, onto the drive, and do some rust preventative work, but it's a little to cold and blowy to do that. It needs warmth, and still air. My garage isn't wide enough, to comfortably get to both sides of the rear of the car, without shuffling things about. I need it jacked up high, and both rear wheels off....
I had paid for the rear arms to be treated a couple of years ago, and they basically didn't do a very useful job, total waste of money. My MOT guy, suggested spraying with WD40, would be as good, so plan this year was to do that. The rest of the under body is like new, treated at the factory, but for some reason, the treatment omitted the rear arms completely.
I was planning to get the car out of the garage, onto the drive, and do some rust preventative work, but it's a little to cold and blowy to do that. It needs warmth, and still air. My garage isn't wide enough, to comfortably get to both sides of the rear of the car, without shuffling things about. I need it jacked up high, and both rear wheels off....
I had paid for the rear arms to be treated a couple of years ago, and they basically didn't do a very useful job, total waste of money. My MOT guy, suggested spraying with WD40, would be as good, so plan this year was to do that. The rest of the under body is like new, treated at the factory, but for some reason, the treatment omitted the rear arms completely.
Finnegans
Wax oil
May be , used it in the past comes in black or clear usually use the black done my cars with it
Had to go to one of the centres I oversee in West London this morning to check up on one of the weekend courses. I interviewed the students. Had to pull the centre up as they are taking students onto courses that are too advanced for them to be able to finish in the time availible and it’s making it hard for the assessor to get all students to complete all of the units. This course, only 25% completed (the other 75% completed 90% of the course and will now have to come back another time to complete). I suspect head office are not taking the time to interview prospective students to check their existing experience and knowledge to see if the qualification is right for them. I'm going to insist that they do from now on and I’ll want to see evidence of that. There are other courses that they should have been put on.
VE Day livefeed from RAF Coningsby, if anyone is interested (and the description and title are correct).
Went over the allotment and collected up some of my unneeded seedlings and plants. Climbing French beans, pumpkins, butternut squash, tomatoes, leeks, beetroot, aubergines, red chilli's, horseradish, rosemary, sprouts and kale. We took them over to our daughter who has recently bought a house in North London. She has taken on an allotment of her own so the plants are for there. Jammy bugger, her allotment couldn’t be any closer - the gates are literally across the road from her house.
The new shell arrived today. It had a blank blade already fitted. I removed the pin using one of my watch strap tools. Only problem was that part of the old blade was too large to fit in the sprung hinge part of tge new fob so I had to file it down to fit. Did that then swapped over the internals and had to wrap the transponder chip (looked like a miniature cod liver oil capsule) in tissue to stop it rattling about. All working fine now.
Managed to remove all the skirting without damaging any of it in the small bedroom that I’m decorating as it needed lowering after taking up some laminate flooring and fibre board underlay panels that were fitted underneath it. I was left with a gap of around 18mm between the skirting and the floor - too much to be taken up with carpet and underlay. Refitting it tomorrow if I have the time.
Had a mini panic when I removed a rad. The TRV didn’t shut off completely (only a vey small leak but the rad will be off the wall for a few days at least) so I had to rush out to the garage and upend my bucket of plumbing fittings to find a piece of 15mm pipe, an olive, a nut and an old isolation valve and fit that onto the TRV to shut it off completely. Luckily not enough water came out to damage the ceiling below.
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Collected fresh timber, pulling the old picnic/outdoor handy workbench bench apart, to recover the nuts and bolts from it, to reuse on a rebuilt version. Making up the A frames, at each end. I've made up a few before, the A frames, are awfully difficult to get them perfectly level, parallel and square, but the two seem to be a reasonable match.
Whilst out, picked up a gallon can of Morris's wax oil. I was going to buy Waxoyl, but the Morris's version, was 2/3 the cost, and came highly recommended by other customers in store at the same time. I only really needed a pint, just to do my rear arms, but a gallon can was all that was available, unless I bought aerosols. Plan is to make up my own cavity injection flexible pipe, using my compressor....
Length of small bore plastic pipe, left over from automatic watering system, block the far end of the pipe, drill some fine radial holes in the pipe. I already have a gun, with a trigger.
Whilst out, picked up a gallon can of Morris's wax oil. I was going to buy Waxoyl, but the Morris's version, was 2/3 the cost, and came highly recommended by other customers in store at the same time. I only really needed a pint, just to do my rear arms, but a gallon can was all that was available, unless I bought aerosols. Plan is to make up my own cavity injection flexible pipe, using my compressor....
Length of small bore plastic pipe, left over from automatic watering system, block the far end of the pipe, drill some fine radial holes in the pipe. I already have a gun, with a trigger.
I was washing the car in the front garden when my neighbour came running out in a panic. She'd just arrived home to find her husband lying on the kitchen floor, he's in his late seventies. I ran in to see what I could do, he was in a bad way, and there were pools of blood on the tiles, which the dog was licking up. He must have taken a knock to the head as he went down.
He chased me away adamant that he would be ok, he just wanted to lie there, alone, until he was ready to get up. As I left, I said to his wife that she must phone an ambulance.
I've just spoken to her at the back door, he's in The Royal Infirmary with a broken hip.
I'll know more tomorrow, I hope he makes a good recovery.
He chased me away adamant that he would be ok, he just wanted to lie there, alone, until he was ready to get up. As I left, I said to his wife that she must phone an ambulance.
I've just spoken to her at the back door, he's in The Royal Infirmary with a broken hip.
I'll know more tomorrow, I hope he makes a good recovery.
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We have an MG4 Trophy LR on lease. I love it and Mrs S loves its hoofability.
It really does shift at the lights. Only 201 brake, but it goes like a stabbed rat. RWD, cracking roadholding and firm ride but it becomes a bit crashy on bumpy roads.
Decent room inside for four, with a wheelbase of 2705mm, but as the wheels are pushed out to the corners, what with the overall length, the boot is small at 363 litres.
Bit like a modern-day Issigonis design, I suppose.
We recently went away for a 6 day trip down South where we did very nearly 900 miles. It was decent, but Mrs S got so annoyed waiting around for the charging. Even though it took less than an hour for nearly a full charge. I'm much more laid back!
Instavolt had a beast of a charging hub near my Sister's in Winchester. 44 of them and we only paid 50p a kWh.
She wants a hybrid next time, but apparently they are massively more prone to fires than any other type of vehicle.
Puts me off a bit!
The next car, though (however propelled), I have decided, will have a much bigger boot, and be more higher riding. Since I smashed my ankle in, getting in and out of the MG is a real pig.
I'm doing OK, according to the Physio, for 5 months since the slip, but people who suffer Trimalleolar Fractures can take 12-18 months to recover fully and a GP friend of Mrs S says that some never make a full recovery.
Well done for trying. I hope the old fella makes a good recovery. Independent bugger though…..
A little bit more decorating on the small bedroom. I fitted the skirting and filled the gaps yesterday so today I sanded them down as well as a few other patches on the wall. Gave the walls their first coat of paint. I’m bloody useless at cutting in so I got coloured emulsion on the skirting and coving edges. I’ll give them another coat tomorrow. I've just been out and bought some low-tack Frog tape so when the final coat had dried I’ll do some masking up of the coving and skirting and I’ll give them a coat or two of satinwood paint.
Popped in to the allotment on my way back, basically I was just feeding the gnats that come out as it gets dusk over there so I came home.
Popped in to the allotment on my way back, basically I was just feeding the gnats that come out as it gets dusk over there so I came home.
