OK, I realise there’s a bit of a contrast between the title and that big A over on the right. However, it seemed appropriate as I’ve finally finished all of the wiring.
And, as you can see, the lights work.
Tag: J15
Filling in
With loins still firmly girded, bloody uncomfortable I can tell you, I’ve been getting the bodywork properly finished. As discussed I’ve made an aluminium panel to fill in the gap at the back of the seats, as in the photo.
Buses
… supposedly come along in threes. Not sure about that, but it does appear to apply to posts.
With loins girded, I set about getting the bodywork finally sorted. As I said, I took off the hinge that was locating the engine cover (the steel tube at the bottom of the photo) and added a couple of little aluminium supports (just above the steel tube).
Loin girding
Right then. The time has come to actually get this J15 finished. What would be nice is to get the car finished by the end of the year which would give me time to do some testing in the New Year. This picture is the car in its current state, sitting on the drive between the motorhome and the trailer while I used the entire garage for the Fury.
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things…”
And in particular, “where the heck have you been?”
Well, I’ve been busy. I realise that’s not a good excuse but I really have, honest. I’ve just finished teaching a 4 week long class to a set of Masters students (and writing the exam they have to take) and I’ve been trying to concentrate on getting my thesis written. Problem is, I keep thinking of more things that ought to be in there so I’m actually going backwards on that one.
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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.
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.
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.
Backwards to the future
You may remember that I’ve all sorts of problems bleeding the J15’s brakes. Well, I finally decided that the pedal box I was using was designed incredibly poorly and had no chance of ever working properly. The only way to bleed the brakes would have been to take the master cylinders out and somehow arrange for them to be horizontal. Of course, in that position you can’t really pump on the pedal to get the air out. Although, to be fair, other techniques such as reverse bleeding are possible. However, getting the master cylinders horizontal was always going to be the core issue.
Red retreat
Finally, another post about the J15! I think I’ve worked out why it’s been so long since the last one. In a nutshell I hate doing bodywork as it’s all so final and the slightest mistake has to be lived with for ages. Daft really because as soon as I stuff it into something everything changes. So, I’m trying to force myself to get stuck in.