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Monday, 05 August 2013
Electrical fettling
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With the arrival of the new wiring looms and the imminent arrival of the car body back from Ross, it was time to sort through the box marked "Electrics"
Soldering the bonnet plug onto the new loom is a damn sight harder than it looks and took up a few hours. Cleaning, painting and generally fettling the other bits and bobs whiled away most of the rest of the day.
Thursday, 01 August 2013
Roadster body nearly ready
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Ross reckons I can have it in about 2 weeks.
400 hours have gone into this.
Sunday, 07 July 2013
Kelsey Hayes finished
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It's finally painted, honed, assembled and I think it will work.
New brakes for the 4.2
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After some thought the folly of swapping over the whole hub assembly became aparent to me.
So instead I did the sensible thing and swapped the calipers over for the Coopers.
Easy.
More little bits and pieces.
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For some time now I have been unable to find the 8 pin plug that supplies power to the bonnet. It finally turned up today; it appeared to have been sat on by an elephant.
Not to be fazed by this I shooed the elephant away and restored the plug. Took about an hour and a bit of Araldite.
Thursday, 04 July 2013
More paint photos
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As Ross paints something, he takes photos and sends them to me. Here's this week's lot.
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Wednesday, 03 July 2013
Engine machining
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The engine has been down at the machine shop for a while. Here's a shot of the head, just waiting for new cam buckets to be fitted. Brendan needs the cam buckets to do the job, as they are individually fitted.
So 4 weeks ago, I ordered a set of 12 oversized long skirt cam buckets from XK's in the US.
Mystifyingly, when they arrived, there were only 10.
I emailled them and they said yes, we will send you another 2 immediately, at our expense.
It seems that in order to keep their expense down they sent them by the little known USPS Rickshaw/Carrier Pigeon combo. This fascinating service took 12 days.
Needless to say, when the 2 cam followers arrived, they were the wrong ones. See the miniskirt?
So another pair of the right cam followers was sent UPS, and actually arrived and were the right ones. I'm glad that the XKs Despatch Dept guy was so kind as to thank me for my patience.
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Sunday, 23 June 2013
Fettling
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Let the pics speak for themselves.
Here, I have shrinkwrapped the ScreenJet bracket.
Here I have reassembled the headlight sockets.
Here the steering column is being rebuilt.
Here I have turned up a pair of Delrin bushes for the uper steering column.
Saturday, 22 June 2013
Windscreen wipers
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Cold and rainy today. A good day for small jobs. So I stripped the windscreen wiper motor. Inside it looks pretty good with almost no wear on the brushes. I suspect it has seen very little use.
An hour with a wire wheel on the grinder, a bit of paint and 10 minutes soldering in the new wires in the correct polarity for parking on the RHS. just like a new one!
Saturday, 15 June 2013
Kelsey Hayes
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I finally built up enough courage to tackle the Kelsey Hayes brake booster today.
It stripped down very easily and was in good condition apart from some scoring on the central shaft. Fortunately this was easily fixed with some gentle linishing in the lathe.
The rest of the assembly was easy given that I'm used to servicing scuba equipment.
For good measure I painted the brake and clutch cylinders with caliper paint as well.
