Well, having found the position of the stop light switch thanks to the good guys on the elan.net website I thought I would nip out to the garage and fit the wires to it. However, I wasn't convinced that the spur on the new loom would be long enough, so I made up an extension cable - two wires, female spades on one end to fit to the switch and male spades on the other end to fit onto the new loom, and all encased in shirnk wrap. A little job, but fulfilling. Fitting was a bit of a pain as it was very tight, but got there eventually and found a use for my very long nosed and shanked pliers at last to snug the spades onto the switch.
Thats it in the middle of the picture hiding under the steering column, and the loom connections at the bottom of the shot.
Then it was a quick fix on the heater hoses. When the car was restored the short hoses from the heater outlet to the dash vents were too short, and were wrapped (badly) in sticky tape to make them fit, which had not worked very well and leaked, and the vents never sat properly on the dash top as well. Here is the original drivers side hose 'neatly' taped in place. Someone must have been proud of that job......
I had some hose 'in stock' so thought I'd replace the existing with some that would have half a chance of directing some air onto the screen. Poppy thought she would help too...
She does like to sit in the car, usually in the same space I want to occupy....
A good idea, and it all went surprisingly well. Here is the new hose in place, a nice tight fit with no need for tape. Admitably its a bit garish but you can't see it with the dash in place!
The only snag was that I needed to fit some new clips to give the self tappers which hold the grill plates on the top of the dash something to grip - there were none present with the self tappers just going into the glass fibre - and half were a push fit so no wonder the grills were a bit wonky. Both sides were treated to two new clips which were fitted after a little bit of trimming of the glass fibre under the dash pad. So now my vents not only sit square onto the top of the dash, they are secure as well.
A good job jobbed but a bit of a diversion from the task in hand! Now I need to get back under the bonnet and finish off the engine bay wiring.
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