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Does it hurt so? The tail pipe needs some heat protection, otherwise it is going to melt my bumper end cap!

The rest of the exhaust is wrapped! And we have wraps for dinner! Not sure about the color so, the beige is nice, but the surface is not sealed. Not sure how that's gonna work with fording, mud, stones and sand when off-roading... The spray is...

While waiting for the new starter motor, and hex bits to remove the old one, I did some budget controllong excersice. Long story short, no more parts purchases in September, like none. Only car related expenses in that period of time, all...

THe Golden Girl has gone through battery issues a lot. Which our local recovery guy ( we only have one guy who covers AA, RAC, GREEN FLAG, et al) has attended marvellously. However she is not a patch on the Disco I had. I was still in...

Used the AA more than once, never for the old lady! But then it is quite hard to kill MTs!

Ah well, that's what the AA is for 😁

Well that's jinxed it

Thought about taking her on a road trip to pick up a long term donor. Sadly, it's not worth the trip. If even the interior had been the right colour I may have been more inclined.

After what feels like years, I finally got Sandy up and running again. Turns out there is a bracket on the back of the fuel pump which wasn't installed. Got one to put on and boy did that suck. But it repositioned the FIP where she runs good...

Reporting in late. Yesterday afternoon I took the Rangie for its MOT. Totally clean on emissions. Mr. Tapley was happy with the brakes and all the lights and horns work. So a clean pass with no advisories. :D

Found a bolt about 20 yards away from my car. Odd thing is, the paint colour on it matches my car perfectly. Cannot see a bolt missing from any of the wings, doors or tailgate. Very odd. Of course, it may not be mine but what would be the chances...

Now you'll be sure you won't need it for another 10 years!!

I looked

You're not telling me heated front seats are not working like that, are you? 😁

They'll warm the seats up nicely 🤣

Couldn't motivate myself to do difficult stuff under the car, so I did this instead:

I did try it, well I looked. And yes, I mixed up the wiring. Couldn't install the spare starter, the bolts are round head for hex keys. The lower one is easy, the upper one almost impossible to get to. So I need a hex key that goes on a wrench...

Lunch break, so I had another look at the internets regaeding wiring, especially to get an idea on how to wire the 123ignition distributor. That one has two wires, red and black. Weird, I thought as I only saw a black one and mine has one of...

Thanks everyone! Need to check that out this afternoon after work!

I old I don't do tecknicker things!

Do, ignition goes to the small one (white red if I remember correctly) everything brown or brown white, along with the thick main wire from the positive battery pole, to the screw without wires. The thick red wire is then the earth to the engine...

Just until red with a gas blowlamp.

Hi there, so, I do have my problems with the new wiring harness. Especially with everything ignition and strater related, funny enough including the horns and beam lights as they share some of the circuits. Anyway, I found an old Lucas starter...

Good piint, didn't think of that! At what temperature, and how?

In the double carb set up, at least my double Zeniths, there is fuel return line from the right hand carb. The pump fills the float chamber of the left one, then the right one. Any excess fuel goes back to the tank. To much pressure might flood...

Sooo, I think I narrowed my electrical worries down a bit, maybe even to the root cause but that's to early to tell for now. Got a new battery today, and then did some other testing. Everything is working, including the interior lights...

3mm to 5mm or 8mm to 5mm not a big difference from what you have now. That's why I swap front to back on services to keep the wear even.

Thanks folks, so I'll get a flanging tool, some copper-nickel tubing and all necessary fittings. A man needs something to do during the next winter! By the current rate, I'll do the cylinder heads myself next year! 😳