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10th March 2018 – Windscreen washer jets, reservoir, pump and piping
Mounting the screen washer reservoir. We had sourced a really nice aluminium 2L reservoir tank and we decided the best place to mount this was on the bulk head inside the engine bay. [...]
8 July 2017 – Suspension Set up – Introduction
The next job for us was to look at setting up the suspension including, the Ride height, Toe and Camber. This was a job that we had been putting off as we both [...]
8 July 2017 – Suspension Set Up – Ride height set up
Before we started doing any setting up it is important to first check the tyre pressures are all consistent. We set this to 30psi all round. We also placed the 4 wheels on [...]
8 July 2017 – Camber Set Up
Camber After setting the toe front and rear we looked at setting the camber. To measure this we used a bar with 2 bolts sticking out, each bolt measured the same distance off the [...]
8 July 2017 – Toe Set up
Toe Next was to set up the wheel toe, Richard had some poles with grooves cut into them. These were based on the ‘Smart String 4 Wheel Toe Alignment System’ that he had previously [...]
21st November 2016 – Getting ready to turn the key.
We had previously connected up the dash and wiring looms as well as mechanical gauge connections, water temperature, oil pressure, oil temperature. These all run directly from the gauges through the bulkhead onto the [...]
November 2016 – Upgrading the fuse box
Things haven't moved on as quickly as we had hoped over the last year or so, but we both knew that we weren't too far away from a big milestone on the build of [...]
6th August 2016 – Wiring up
We spent another day on the build and thought it was time we got on with the wiring. Wiring up the outer components such as the lights, fuel pump, was all quiet straight forward as we [...]
29th March 2016 – Installing wiper motor & mechanism
Next up is the Windscreen wipers. We had already drilled and fitted the wheel boxes (you can read about this post here) but we had to fit the motor and driver cable. Originally we [...]
20th Feb 2016 – Repositioning the heater box
While we were looking at installing the wiper box motor, wiper mechanism and wheel boxes, we realised, not for the first time, that we had a problem. We had originally installed the heater box [...]
