In between
solving the DHC's carburettor's problems, and with no motivation at all to
finish the heater, I carried out some more smaller jobs on the FHC. First of
these was collecting the refurbished parts for the headlight mechanism for
reassembly:
Putting
them back together was a rather straightforward job. Though I was surprised it
took me a fair amount of time, mainly caused by the fact that all the threaded
holes needing careful cleaning with a tap. This was to remove the
powder coating that got in there despite all threads being plugged during
coating. But after spending a few relaxing
hours outside, and enjoying the fine late summer weather, the headlight
mechanism platforms and headlight bowls were back together:
Next came the
rear quarter grills, together with various small parts to fit them and for the
head lights. Again back to the shed to search through my spare parts. First to
select the best pair of rear quarter grills:
Followed
by a search through my many boxes with various small parts. Not too bad a job when
you can combine it with some nice weather!
These were
all taken home for a much needed clean up. Rather time consuming but also very
relaxing and rewarding to do. With everything cleaned it was time to fit the
rear quarters grills, but not before fitting 2 pairs of newly fabricated air
extractor flaps to the B-post together with two small plastic spacers to help
keep the rear of the grills in position:
Followed
by the grills themselves. This is turned out to be a bit of a fiddle with the small plastic
T-bolts and nuts. At least I didn't lose any of the small (M4) nuts, to secure the grills with, in the depths of the car's interior!
And to
finish off on a very rainy day, I fitted the drain plugs to the rear underside of
the front wings:
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