After the euphoria of getting the deck on, its back to earth time
to sort out all the other myriad of jobs that need to be done so we can spend the summer gallivanting round the shows with the biggest little truck in town.
The multiswitch for the indicators, lights and horn was munted, with a horn button out of a series one landrover screwed to the dash
Ebay supplied an NOS unit that bolted straight up, as per NZ std, with the stalk on the right hand side of the column like so;
All good except for the proximity of the great fat knee
Nice new stalk is not going to last long like this, it will get hooked and smashed for sure
A look at the column shows that theres a locating notch on the other side so we'll just put it on that side,
And take the wee indicator cancel bizzo and swap it over thus,
Put the steering wheel back on and ...........
That spoke across the gauge cluster is going to annoy the living sh*t out of yours truly.
On examination the steering wheel has only got one notch in it to engage the indicator cancel lug so a few minutes work with a hacksaw and a die grinder and it has two.
Now every body be happy, everything works, and nothing is in danger of getting busted.
Just have to remember that the stalk is now on the "wrong" side of the column.
Another of the wee jobs was the interior light, the lens on the old one had gone crystalline and was falling to bits at every touch.
With no door switches finding the ignition switch in the dark could be a bit of a mission.
An ad popped up on Trademe for an inside light from a 2010 Transit that according to the seller would with a few mods fit an early Capri.
So it was duly purchased reckoning that if it fitted a Capri it would no doubt fit a MkI Transit. And it did.
Off came the wiring, the metal frame, and the spring clips on the ends, grind off
most of the clip keepers with the die grinder and in it went. The trick is to just leave enough of the keepers on to lock it into place. I figured that out later, so had to glue a couple of short screws into place to act as clips.
Looks the part though, and no messing about cutting the opening with attendant risk of slipping and trashing the hoodlining.
Just got to rebush the brake pedal now and thats the cab stuff done, after that its under the bonnet to where some clown has put the engine in with the mounts on arse about face, so the engine is not sitting square in the bay, just the sort of thing to annoy the living sh*t out of yours truly.
Hope you're having fun, we got our first proper southerly of the season, the South Island skifields are opening, which is
if you're a skier, and barked knuckles in the shed if you're not.
Some days you're the statue, other days the pigeon.