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Well we are now in June, and my build is no way close to finished.
When I tried to finish it by April, I realise it was not so much wishful thinking, but more like gross naivety on a massive global scale!
So today I decided to put in more hours, and make the bonnet rain channel a reality. I did this, and am pleased with the result, but it took over eight hours of intensive labour.
At least now, I am one day closer to completion, with yet another fiddly job done and dusted.
Well, the long-awaited very expensive rip off wiper blades and arms finally arrived today, hoorah!
The blades were fine, unfortunately the wiper arms, who's dimesions I discussed in detail with the company concerned, were half an inch too short. Boooooooooh!
Having paid out so much and waited so long for the damn things to arrive, this was a bit like taking the piss.
Jesus H. Christ, what does one have to do,to get, not good service, but just ordinary normal service?
Talk about adding insult to injury and rubbing salt into wounds etc.
Anyway, I carried on with the wiper installation and have got to the point where, if I prod wires to the motor connections, the wiper arm I have on the wheel box temporarily will thrash about in the right way, which is good news.
I don't at this point much care where they work properly or not, as long as they satisfy the Mot, and look the part.
After all, the whole car is a fraud, so why should the wipers be any different?
Oddly i thought of you on the commute in this morning (not like that!!) but at one point in the monsoon type rainstorm on the M5 i passed a Morgan (who had his roof up, which should give you an idea on how bad the weather was!!) and i noticed that they have very short wipers fitted to them and i thought that they looked like an exact match for what you're after.
If you hadn't commissioned some incorrect items, that is!
Hi's and low's ! I have never done anything before that had me smiling one minute and shouting and swearing the next. keep up the great work. Top class blog as well.
Well, my triumph of yesterday was short-lived, a friend of mine came round to see the car, and I proudly showed him how the wiper now was working and watched in horror, as the arm hit the steering wheel, jammed up and ceased to function!!
How I never had a mental breakdown I don't know, somehow he calmed me down and we stripped the motor out and down.
The drive cable had come loose from its crimped position on the
to and fro arm.
Drilled it out and brazed it back in, re-assembled the lot and now it works again.
Like he said, its better to happen now than a hundred miles from home on a rainy day?
For once, I was so peed off, I took no pictures, so you'll just have to use your imagination!!! :-)
I ordered some scooter front mudquards chrome plated ( Ebay/India) and the size is almost 10 inch long and.. cheap..It paid 4 pcs with shipping 18 pounds.
They will be mounted on the 4 corners, just for some chrome accents.
Life keeps getting in the way of the build yet again!
I had to cut all the back garden hedges today, and mow the lawn again.
The windscreen frame, it has been in primer for a while, but just to keep the rust off it, it needs more work, which I started on today.
I filled the slight hollows and sanded it down, still needs attention, but it is closer to completion than it was. (That's what I keep telling myself!!)
I think I'm just putting off drilling the holes in it that the wiper shafts will go through, in case I bugger it up!
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