29 January 2022
A short afternoon in the garage but feels like a productive one. I ran the wires for the speedo sensor, reverse lamp switch, brake lamp and handbrake switch through the bulkhead, ready to be terminated on the fusebox. I finished routing most of the wires that need to run to the back of the car, fog lamp, reverse lamp, indicators, side lamp, brake lamp. I mustn't forget to run the fuel gauge sensor wire and the fuel pump wire. Prepared the the lower bulkhead panels for final fitting. Fitted them with Tiger Seal and pop rivets (the air riveter makes it so easy). The top edge is held with Cleco's for now because the top panels will overlap and I want to rivet through all of them together. I won't do the top panels until I've got the body back on the car. I drilled out a hole for a grommet and passed the wires through the rear bulkhead, ready to be wrapped and clipped when everything has been tested. 5 February 2022 An hour or two in the garage, I extended a couple of the wires so they would be able to connect to the lights. I then wrapped these wires in split woven nylon sheathing. I add p-clips for the loom going to the fuel tank and the wires from it going to the earth point. I had ordered more split woven nylon sheathing that would accommodate more wires for the run from the handbrake up to the fuse box, it took quite a while to get in place and covering the wires but it tidies and protects everything nicely. Just need to figure out how to get some p-clips to secure it to the gearbox. 6 February 2022 Added a p-clip to hold the loom on top of the gearbox using one of the bolts near the gearstick. Towards the front I used a tapping in the side of the gearbox a bit too close to the exhaust for my liking, I made up a length of aluminium flat bar with a hole in each end and bolted it to the side of the gearbox and on the other end bolted a p-clip to hold the wiring loom. Fitted the gearbox tunnel but found it fouled the p-clip I had installed near the gearstick. I removed the tunnel and moved the p-clip to a bolt further forward. Refitted the gearbox cover, I tried to put the fusebox panel back but that was fouling the earth bar I put in a while back. Luckily I was able to trim the corner of the panel to allow clearance for the earth bar. I checked all the wires going to the rear lights for continuity back to the fusebox. Now with the fusebox panel in place, I unbolted the fusebox from the panel and moved it onto to allow me access to the back. I spent a lot of time sorting out wires, this involved a lot of unwrapping and re-wrapping of the loom around the bulkhead area so that I could group the wires going to the fusebox and those to the dash connector together. The loom is slowly taking shape but it seems like I have been doing this for ages now. My plan is to get the remaining cables terminated and connected inside the car. I still need to run the cables to the brake switch, the coolant temperature sensor and the brake fluid level switch. Once that is done I will refit the dash and body so I can make the connections to the lights and horn. I want to move the car over onto my lift because I also need to replace the exhaust centre pipe (which also means swapping over the O2 sensor) with my new one. With the car on the ramp making the light connections underneath the body should be easier too.
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