Neil's FB Station Wagon

[BS]

Doing a cracker job on this.


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[FireKraka]

Started on the subchassis after taking doors off in preparation for the roof change.
My “not” most favourite job, drilling out spot welds but I must be getting better at it by now

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New bits ready to weld

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This has the usual rotted battery box area and the wings where it bolts to the firewall, just going to take a bit of time

[Errol62]

You did a tidy job on the spot welds alright.


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[Blacky]

like eating an elephant ..................

[FireKraka]

"one bite at a time" Blacky

[Brett027]

Wonderful work Neil. I am enjoying it immensely.
Brett

[FireKraka]

Thanks Brett, I'm getting through it and am really looking forward to doing the roof it will be a really big step but I'm also apprehensive cause if we mess this up then the whole project is down the drain.

[Brett027]

100% confidence Neil.

[Errol62]

Just remember, measure once, cut twice……


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

[FireKraka]

Hi Clay I think I'll do the reverse of your advice mate if it all the same to you

[EK283]

Its been a long time since I got excited with anything getting its top off !

Wont be that big a job Neil, just tedious.

Looking forward to the progress.

Greg

[FireKraka]

I received the Wiper timer today from the mob in Victoria, I purchased one from them because I will need two and the fact that the one I ordered from the mob in Thailand has still not arrived, funnily the ones from Victoria "Maxx Tronic" are made in Thailand

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Sop with the VT steering column and wiper stalk there is a wire "Green" that goes to the intermittent wiper relay so I sup[pose that I check I have power going through the green wire when the wiper stalk is moved to the first position "intermittent" and then wire that through the timer module.

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Does this make sense

[funkyscooter]

I'm going through this at the moment with a 2 speed BA wiper using a delco switch. Obviously notgoing to help you much with your set up but I guess the concepts should hold.

Picture tell a thousand word. +12 to the NO side of the relay, the yellow wire is the park wire from the wiper. When intermittant switch pulses, it sends power briefly to the park wire which (I need to go back and look at this but pretty sure I'm not making it up), loops through the power on the delco (which in the off position is tied to the park wire) and that sends the wiper round once and back to park. Simple

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I have removed the switch on the board and I am replacing it with a push push 500K linear pot so I can mount it on the dash more easily. Also swapped out the big capacitor near the relay to make it pulse faster. Will update my build with clearer details soon.

For your set up find the wire on the wiper side that will send the wipers round once by appling 12 volts to it.

This stuff is witchcraft - I used trial and error to finally get it to work. Cooked a board in the processs.

Earlier efforts.......

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[FireKraka]

Hi Scott, thanks for the input but I think I'm more confused now mate
If it had nuts and bolts I would be ok but when it has that green steam running through the wires I'm stuffed
I have the column for the wagon sitting in my shed with the stalk and wiring and a spare VP wiper motor so I will sit and ponder and maybe rig something to see if it works first.

The second unit arrived today from Thailand (apology to the sender for bad mounting him yesterday ) so if I let the magic smoke out of one I have the second unit

[Errol62]

I’m with you Neil.


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