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Front wings now tacked onto wing stays and protected with a layer of masking tape
Wing, Wing Stay and Sikaflex
Solution: a Morgan’esque brace
Just the job for the rear hub nuts
Rear hub nut problem… big torque and nothing to hold it back
Added IVA trim (spare left over from dashboard) to catalytic converter cover
5/16th hose cable tied in place on the braided clutch hose, running bottom left to middle of the picture. Covers all of the hose.
Air-filter installed
Lubricating the air-filter trim
Air-filter installed
Re-cable-tie the front ARB gaiters
Spare touch-up paint came to the rescue
Dinged the RHS rear wing
Finished IVA wing mirror
Stud inserted in windscreen side
Using some pliers to get the torx screw started in the wing mirror to windscreen assembly
Close up of captive ball/stem – you can see the flat side of the stem
Exploded view of wing mirror assembly for windscreen attachment
Close up of slotted stem
Rear of mirror frame with captive ball/stem, larger slotted stem, cup
Simple install of the rear-view mirror. Made sure the bracket was straight and plumb and a few mm from the windscreen top rail.
Grey cable running under bottom front of engine block… from timing sensor to ECU via the LHS of block. This cable was added to the P-clip (right of picture above)
Mystery spade terminals now encased in black electrical tape (top middle of pic) and cable tied in place.
Engine LHS wiring tidy-up
Dry-run of repeater wiring again
Repeater wires taped to pull cord
Paper-clip worked better than tweezers
Leading edge of front wings set to be 8cm (80mm) from front of wing stay.
Progress to date by the end of the Build Session 35
Final resting place for the ECU connector
Double P-clip used to tie the handbrake cable to the A-frame
Spiral trajectory of LHS handbrake cable
Handbrake cable can now exit transmission tunnel more horizontally than before the modification
Modified diff by grinding away flange. The flange originally continued around to the left
Anti-squeal plate – the thin plate on top of the calliper
SuperGlue blob every few cm to hold IVA Trim to Carbon Fibre Wings
Sikaflex bead applied to the wing stay
Sikaflex 521 – Weathering Resistant Adhesive Sealant
Foam pipe lagging cut to size to check out the spacing I needed
Foam pipe lagging cut to size to check out the spacing I needed
Bonnet heading home for the last time – hopefully
Repeater cable runs across rear arm of the top wishbone
Brake fluid not good for the skin
Modified brace and pump-clamp
Jam jar and washer tubing working a treat
Fluid will bleed into the jam jar until there’s no air or bubbles
Wooden brace used to keep clutch depressed.
Testing out actuating the bleed nut
Protecting the paintwork around the clutch fluid reservoir
… and ending up with two ends of the pipe the right size for the Brakes and Clutch
Using a hot air gun to form some washer bottle pipe to the right size
Lights and indicators working
LHS econo-seal sockets/plugs
RHS econo-seal plugs/sockets
Econo-seal plug with one wire inserted.
Number plate light attached and wired up.
Bullet connector crimped to the number plate light wire
Number plate wiring as it comes from the factory
These LED repeaters are offset with the back being longer (left)
Gearbox mounting bolts (after) going down
Gearbox mounting bolts (before) going up
How much I could lever the RHS wing stay over to get the wing closer to central
My wing stay lever
RHS wing on it’s wing stay ready to have the repeaters fitted.
Centre hole now enlarged
Used an oversized 16mm spade bit to make the repeater centre hole in the wing
Wings pre-drilled with 3 x 5mm holes
Repeater needs at least a 13mm centre hole
Front RHS indicator pod
Repeater signal wire threaded through wing stay… wot no wing, wot no extended earth lead!@!
Tweezers to pull wire from inside the wing stay – there’s a better way of doing this
Now with the wing stays swapped to the right side
This wing stay should be on the other side
Me upside down under the dashboard looking for indicator wiring
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