FHC resto nr. 104; Suppressor and door strikers

The title of this post says it all. I spent a few hours on two of the many small jobs that are part of a restoration. Call it stop gap work 😁To start with the suppression capacitor (UKC2211), which is or should be fitted between the coil and the cars body (or earth point) to reduce the signal distortion caused by radio interference. This was pretty straightforward. It only needed a good clean and a new spade connector before it could be fitted to the car.

But probably most of the time was lost searching for the correct connection terminal on the coil (6V Bosch high performance ignition coil #0221124001). When you ignore the labels it even looks a bit like the original Lucas coils!

Next job was reassembling the two door strikers (YKC2031).

These were disassembled, cleaned, shot blasted and gloss galvanised well over 2½ years ago. But I never got round (or forgot) to look into the two rubber damping gaskets that go between the three parts of the striker assembly. As can be seen in the picture above the lower gaskets were in good condition. The upper ones were not. But that was easily solved with a pair of striker seals (ZKC369) from my spare parts stock.

The eagle eyed viewer will have noticed that the striker ring in the picture above has a slightly different colour. Well that is caused by the fact that one of the two parts I sent off for galvanising came back heavily bent. So that one had to be replaced. And that also meant a different coating, because galvanising is a batch process. So not very cost effective for one single small part! And with all parts ready, assembling the strikers was very straightforward indeed.

I would have preferred to fit the strikers to the car immediately, but it turned out I had no more striker seals left. At least I couldn't find any quickly. So that is for another day.