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Great news Nick! You and your dad have completed your own London to Sydney Marathon, well Kent to Queensland anyway. Perhaps you should inform Paddy Hopkirk!

Hope things improve on the work front.

David

That gives me an idea David! First trip needs to be to Sydney! The car has been to London plent might as well take it to the finish! Missed a few bits in between. One day maybe.

Nick

Well it has snowballed a little as you might expect. I found a few wires going nowhere, a couple of switches tucked up under the dash that I forgot were there and the parcel shelf fell apart. Also decided to add some other bits! I didn't take any photos of the parcel shelf repair but I used a fair bit of super glue, some bits of plastic and aluminium to reinforce the tears and covered it in grey leather. I also 3D Printed the switch plate for the switches to be in a sensible spot and the bracket for the Taco, all of which came out ok. Because the car is not very well fused I fitted some circuit breakers. I had the steering column wiring go up in smoke caused by a shorted spotlight many years ago, lack of knowledge and fuse! This car might have been no more if I hadn't got to it quick enough! Lesson learned!!

The hanging wires on the left are for a W6 clock I removed from my W6 when it was scrapped. All added to the loom to keep it tidy. 




Here is the printing of the bracket that will hold the clock, 3 more switches and 3 more circuit breakers. I plan to switch some parcel shelf lights and probably the interior lights so you don't have to reach behind to the switch thats on the light itself to turn it on. The last switch will be for Air con when/if I get that far.




Finished front view




Back view. You can see the lines from the printing.




Deciding where to put the clock before the parcel shelf was put back in. That is roughly where it is going.




I found a couple of photos of the bulkhead connector which had suffered a bit !





Wire fixed and new plug fitted.




I added some extra wires to the loom plugs for the Taco, spot lights, windscreen washer motor and a shielded data cable that I forgot to add on the engine side plug, so you cant see that one. I didn't get that far into the engine bay loom luckily. You can see where the yellow and blue wires are showing near the bottom of the battery, so not too much loom wrap wasted!

A much neater set up for the added washer pump anyway going down to the loom.




Before shot



Next job fit the clock then fix the passenger side parcel shelf!

Nick

Its an ABS print David. Its taken me a while but I am getting some quite good results with it now. I am printing on glass so the front face comes out nice and flat. I have a little trick that I am using that is working well. You might be able to pick it in the picture. It is harder to print than PLA but PLA is quite useless if you want to actually use the part! It warps if it gets even slightly warm and is affected by moisture. The ABS prints at 250°C and should be much more immune to the heat in the car.
Nick

Found my heater issue Jeff! The back of the switch had fallen off! Decided to respray the switch Bezel while I was fixing the switch as it was looking a bit sad. It came out ok just using an aluminium colour spray can. The first one I did with undercoat and it didn't work very well so this one I just did with top coat only.
 



The plastic was a bit cracked allowing the back to fall off of the switch. I used a bit of thin super glue to fix the crack which you have to be careful with! Don't use too much otherwise you will stick all the insides together and your fingers to it. Don't ask how I know this!

I put some hot glue on also as you can see in the picture for extra insurance. I also insulated the out terminals which were bare for reasons only known to Leyland!


Finished the wiring for the clock, switches and circuit breakers.


The three circuit breakers are for extra insurance. One replaces the original cartridge fuse for the heater, the second adds a separate circuit breaker for the cigar lighter socket outlet and the last is for the extra led lighting I am adding for the front foot well. 



I have still got to make a cover for the side so you cant see the wiring.


Still lots to do!

Nick

Wow - thanks for that - have had a look and they're £250 delivered!
Not sure what I'd do with it yet.......
But I do need to join the 21st Century so this could be a start !

There are all sorts of printable models online you can print for a bit of fun. I have had my printer for a couple of years and am now starting use it to make useful things as you can see. I would avoid using ABS to start with as it is very fussy to print. The plate for the clock was an 18 hour print. It can be very frustrating when an 18 hour job goes wrong in the last hour! Or you realise after the print you have got a dimension wrong! Gladly the clock plate was good first print.
Nick