10CR Preparations (#3)

Just over three weeks to go before the start of Club Triumph’s 10 Countries Run!

There was only what looked like a few simple jobs left on the dashboard for today. But it took me a fair part of this Sunday to get everything back where it belonged. Especially the instrument cluster decided to put up a fight, which it lost in the end. But it all took much longer than planned.

As a result a thorough test of everything will have to be carried out the coming week, instead of this afternoon. Which will also see some more work on “The 10CR List”!  Also decided last week it might be a good idea to put a notepad in a strategic position. This enabled me to write down all those small jobs that have to be done before the 10CR, and spring to mind randomly. And often are forgotten pretty quickly! together with my previous published list it looks like a lot of work still! Though I am glad that most of the more time consuming jobs seem to have been completed;

• Book the various overnight accommodations for the run;
• Buy motorway vignettes for Switzerland and Austria:
• Check wear pattern on front brake pads and address some light squalling under light braking;
• Check if the carburettors throttle’s open fully;
• Clean the contact areas of the three main earth point on the car’s engine;
• Clean the leather seats and treat the leather with a conditioner;
• Disconnect or remove choke light;
• Fit LED lights (T10) to the instrument cluster;
• Fit GPS docking station;
• Fuel gauge, the old unit was registering almost empty constantly. See what the change of instrument cluster has had on this fault;
• General service and check of all mechanics, including greasing the prop shaft and a check for any leaks;
• Lubricate the (polyurethane) lower steering column bush;
• Load the four stages of the route into the GPS and copy the route to a road atlas as back-up (just in case);
• Oil change for the gearbox (Castrol Syntrans Multivehicle 75W90);
• Reconnect and adjust handbrake cable;
• Testing all the jobs done so far or enjoy the car a bit more!

Sadly fitting the PAS-system has been deleted from the list, as till date I haven’t had any news about its status. So that will be for later in the year, as time has run out to fit that to the car (together with an alignment check), and check it is functioning as it should.