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Putting the fire out

Back in J15 land, things are progressing albeit slowly. I must admit that I’m getting down to the scraping the barrel things here. Of course, as usual there’s lots of these.

One thing to do was to fit the various cable releases. First of all, the electrical one. I favour a good old fashioned cable job so I added an anchor for the cable outer to the side of the switch panel as you can see in the photo. I’ve also twisted the master switch around slightly so that the angle of pull works a bit better.

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Lagged

So, I needed to fix the Fury. That meant I needed to make a new wishbone and here it is sitting in the jig. The problem was that in thinking about the design of the wishbone then at one point I must have lost my presence of mind.

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Bleeding progress

A bit more progress to report, again mainly around the J15’s rebuilt braking system. With the new master cylinders I’m going to have to use a different fluid reservoir. In particular, I need to mount the fluid higher up so as to be sure that it’s downhill into the master cylinder.

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Furious activity

Not been too well the last few days. However, the Fury is now fixed up for its next outing. However, first of all here’s a shot of the last Brands races courtesy of Dave Hackett who as is often the case has produced some great photos of the RGB meeting.

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Bleeding problems

Some experimentation shows that there is a problem with air in the master cylinders not getting out of the exit ports. I had a peek down the inside of the master cylinder I’d nadgered and indeed the exit port is a pretty small hole at the top of the cylinder. Experimentally, I loosened off a couple of the master cylinders and jammed it in in a horizontal position, as in the photo.

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Dashing along

After musing for some considerable time, I decided that I was never going to like the other gearchange and I’d just have to make my own again. So I did, and here it is. It’s essentially a reworking of the one I made for the Fury, albeit reworked for 2010. Specifically as I’ve now got a lathe some bits are rather easier to do.

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Alive Alive-O

It’s time to press on with the electrics, and the first part was to fit the battery. I decided to position this low down behind the driver’s seat so I made a little plinth for it and held it in place with some bits of aluminium angle and, yes folks, some chunky tie-wraps.

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Lots of pretty colours

I seem to have nadgered my knee and while I wait for it to get better (things like this usually do) or the booked appointment with an orthopod arrives I’ve been trying not to clamber around the car too energetically. Hence, I’ve made a fairly determined start on the wiring.

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Symphony in Al flat

Thanks heavens for that! I’ve finally finished all the panelling. That is, I’ve finished off the pedal box cover which is as shown in the photo.

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Backs to the wall

Well, there’s a bit more progress to tell you about. First of, the panelling is almost completed. The first part of this was putting the seat backs in place, as seen in the photo on the right. These are actually held in with rivnuts, as I reckon being able to remove them will be quite useful, for example for getting at the exhaust.

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