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Tough mate!

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Blown, and giggle gas?



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Harv

Blacky wrote: Mon Jan 16, 2023 1:26 am Put it all together and there is no room for the £#%+@$ing fan so the whole bloody lot went in the bin
This is why I don’t have any rope in the shed and why I keep my guns in the house


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Ha Ha Your funny !!!
You have to walk away, regroup and then come back with the interests high again.

Nitrous, be carefull with that stuff, it can burn your face off in a second flat, wear all the PPE when installing.

no room for a fan where? i had a big thick 3 core radiator in the standard position, yes no room for an engine fan but plenty of room on the front of the radiator for an electric fan, it was a great engine though ran cool as anything only time i ever used the fan was in traffic i could drive at 110+ on 40+ degree days with no fan at all and it would sit on 140 degrees by the gauge, wish the austin was the same

Managed to make some progress on the wiring over the last couple of days, started by stripping out the engine bey wiring, removing all the crusty bits and the bits I don’t need from the existing harness


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Then ran all the new wires in, drilled a 1” hole under each guard to keep the wiring out of the engine bay




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Then cleaned up all the crap under the dash, removed the air vent and gave that a birthday, vacuumed out some of the garnet from when it was blasted, will never get it all out as we all know
Refitted the air vent and the heater core, going to try for some heater hoses with a 90 degree bend in them tomorrow to make them fit nicer, and stuck Chinamat right up to the top of the firewall seeing as I am too mean to buy a new sound pad




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Then needed to find a spot for the new fuse box, a bank of relays and the ECM - fuse box is going in the glovebox and the rest will live on the passenger side kick panel. Made a bracket to mount the fuse box , the old glovebox is dead so I ordered a new one after thinking about making one out of steel and quickly deciding that I am just too lazy …




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Computer and fuses I made a standoff bracket- actually I made 2 , the first one I did the second fold first which means I can’t do the first fold - like a dickhead - so I made another one and did it properly





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Mounted the bits, tapped the holes and hit them with a rattle can rebuild and called it a day





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Any progress is good progress mate even if you do have to do it twice

Ah yes, You need to do things 3 times to get the right result !

Are all the little wires doing your head in Blacky ??

You dont need hydraulic crimpers at least !!!

Greg

EK283 wrote:Ah yes, You need to do things 3 times to get the right result !

Are all the little wires doing your head in Blacky ??

You dont need hydraulic crimpers at least !!!

Greg

Little wires suck balls

I got everything behind the dash done today - where there was chaos there is now order. Mounted up the relays and computer, ran out of heat shrink so went to Auto One and bought a little kit of it - nearly died when I saw how much they want for it

Morning kickoff - really overdue for a clean up


Welded a couple of bolts to the body so i hopefully don’t have crappy earth issues


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Getting there ……





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Blacky wrote: Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:31 am Mounted up the relays and computer, ran out of heat shrink so went to Auto One and bought a little kit of it - nearly died when I saw how much they want for it

i worked at a place that made electrical connectors etc and supplied heatshrink, when the company changed hands and they had a big cleanup they threw away 2x1 meter cubed boxes of heatshrink of various colours and sizes, i should have taken them and been the heatshrink king