So on Tuesday a lot of nothing happened in the extreme heat.
John the lodger had gone from 8 hours of driving instruction time to one hour during Monday afternoon, so,he rescheduled the one hour that was left in his diary to,Friday and took the day off.
I worked from home as hospitals were on high alert and on Monday I was in one and realised the heat was not a good thing at all.
Being well ahead of my targets and quotas meant mainly administrative tasks that could be done sitting under a tree, drinking Pina Colada’s (by the bucket)
Heat under the carport hovered around 39’C
The dark green roof may have something to do with it of course.
So John and I went and started on the side lights, under the carport by 09.00 ( I had been up before 06.00 and run through a load of admin before 8.30 )
It took us nearly 4 hours to find a fault in the drivers side, including disassembly and checking of the rear lights that @nickwheeler had previously sorted.
Mate Martin called around 12.30 to see how I was enjoying the heat as his company had shut for the day, speaking with John, they narrowed it down to a duff earth as the side light was acting as indicator and various tests showed passenger side was fine.
One shortcut earth and it was all good.
So wiring was soldered in place and I bonded both the side lights into the fenders for the final/first time.
Once these were done, it was time for a cold celebratory beer for John, water had been flowing all day.
Using 4 different sets of instructions and Google, replacing one blown 15 amp fuse (possibly just a wire touching and shorting at some point) we proceeded to decipher and get the relays I had bought previously to work.
At some point the one side tested like this……..
https://youtu.be/UnYritotCCA
A few hours of work found both headlights, the halo’s and side lights all working.
A lot of forward and reverse went on through the day, neither of us are electricians, and Martin’s advice helped John understand the intricacies more clearly.
While he was on the lights, I did various little jobs of tidying up and getting things together.
One was to drag the bits for the pretend”Race car doors” out of hibernation……..
Laying it all out and trying to recall what the original plans were for their assembly.
In the end after some mocking up around 18.30 and swearing a bit, I put them aside.
In stead, I started to wrap all the exposed wiring and looms, right down to 2 wire,sections, in self amalgamating tape.
Doing it all in black and removing and untangling parts then anchoring them in the engine bay has transformed the space as well.
I am really really pleased with the result as it came out better than expected.
I guess making the extra effort does pay off.
In the mean time, John whom I had dismissed after a long day, as it was now 8.00pm and he had been down there all day, except for going to pee once, insisted on figuring out how we could have the ring halo lights run separately on an ignition live.
We still need to find one in the power distribution box or somewhere, it is out there.
But then they will act as DRL’s which looks pretty cool.
Lastly……….
For everyone’s pleasure.
Angle of the camera makes it look like they are not both working, trust me….. ZOOMERS, they all work fine and are actually the same.
VIDEO OF FULL LIGHT TEST.
https://youtu.be/gSJhOtB89L4
Next jobs include the rear fog light, which iirc is an LED and may also require a relay if wired into the loom, alternately just a live off a switch in the cab for testing time.
Hooter needs to be fitted and made to work, I was looking for something interesting and obnoxious to fit but have pretty much failed to find anything, same as an MX5 service manual to have on standby.
Then the elephant in the room…….
Fuel pump wire to be reinstated in the loom and maybe………. Crank over and start.
Thanks for checking in.