The All New, New "What have you done to your Bay today" thread.

Yes it does, doesn't it. Now to see how easy and how realistic it is to take the switch apart and use the opportunity to clean the contacts. The less elegant solution is to cut the wire and feed the end through and rejoin..but I'm not keen on that, or just leave it as it's survived this long, but eventually the wire might short out.

So has anybody got experience of taking these switches apart and how easily is it?

 

If it's riveted together, I wouldn't bother. Cable should be fine if it's not shorting on anything.

 

I would either ignore it as its trapped between two pieces of plastic or make sure the wire and plastic is warm, therefore more plastic, and see if it can be "helped" back into place using something soft and weakish like fingernails. It looks like somebody e.g. dropped the steering column and it was supported by the wiring , which pulled the wire along the gap.

 

Gave his rear end a quick blow-over. Nice cold, humid weather - perfect for painting - not.

Mismatched Sage Green mysteriously turned into the correct colour. Good workout tomorrow with the polishing compound to correct my crap spraying and his rear is done. I can tidy up when the weather gets warmer. Possibly.

 

Right, that's that. Better than it was, which is all that matters. Good session with the rubbing compound tomorrow and we're done. Just got to tackle the rest of the rot now.

Before...


After...

 

Started her for the 1st time in 6 weeks , cough and a splutter and soon ticking over , icts no chokes

Made me smile,

 

Will it be going back in with dells on?

 

Fiddly in there isn't it.... best to have a lot of tea breaks.

 

Excellent! You need to order a pot of mixed-to-colour Rustoleum and brush paint that lot. Makes life much easier!

 

Seconded - did the same. I use the dense sponge rollers where I can and brush the fiddly bits.

 

Or get the paint put into rattle cans

 

Easier to brush paint in the engine compartment, I found. Plenty of nooks and crannies.

 

I sprayed mine just fine with rattle cans
It was prepping the entire bay that was the ball ache.
It would have been easier if it hadn’t been previously painted with no prep.

 

Drove it to Tescos a few miles away, noticed when I got there one rear tyre looked a bit flat .. down from 42 psi to 21 psi. So I pumped it up with a foot pump. At least one passing car offered me the use of their electric air pump. I thanked them but declined.

When I got home, I chocked the front wheels, jacked up the offending wheel (bit worried as tyre was replaced in August) and mixed up some soapy water and covered the tyre .. nothing.. Then I tried the valve. And it was leaking air through the valve , little bubbles forming ...

So I went and got a bag of Schrader valve cores and tool that I got off eBay a while back to fix a boat trolley, and swapped the valve core over for a new one.
Trying to pick up a valve core with two pairs of gloves on (brickies disposable gloves over latex gloves) while holding the air in the wheel with a finger over the hole was a bit fun.. still lost half the pressure. Tried my electric air pump and its about 1/3 the speed of the foot pump.

Then I decided to do some work on my crank timing wheel (bought as laser cut off eBay) - design is to cut a 40+mm hole in the timing wheel big enough to fit a socket and the 30mm head crank flywheel fixing bolt. Then use a piece of 1.6 mm steel sheet as an extended 60mm diameter "washer" that will be welded to the rear of the timing wheel. Some hacking with hole saws - and nearly wrenching my arm off when a stepped drill cutting a 20mm diameter hole decided to bind... This is a mock up on a knackered pulley...


When I get its timing aligned I will drill a hole for a small screw to lock it to the pulley.

Tomorrow : welding , grinding , trying to make a VR sensor out of a bolt, some enamelled wire and a magnet. I might instead make a Hall sensor out of the same magnet and some sensors I have (both digital and analog style) .

So far I am in about £100 on crank timed ignition.



Oh fiddlesticks. Crocs on show.

 

And flaps?