ThePog

Yea na, I already talked to them and they quoted $240 + shipping. Just no cunt.

Whereabouts was that?

I mean there will be hackery

This shot kindof shows what is supposed to be there;

They changed it a couple of times, I think the heater I have is an earlier one so the control cables probably wont work with the correct control panel for my car. However i have ordered a 3m bonnet release cable so I can make new cables. And I know I can probably get everything i need from Midwest Bayless, but think of the shipping Also; D21 terrano?

Im sure there are thousands of suitable jap shitter ones lying around.

I have thought about it but it would just take time to resolve it all nice, I also quite like dirty hacks in old cars. Maybe I will do that later when I get annoyed with marginally functioning dirty hacks. Or maybe convince one of the Fiat hoarder barrys to actually sell me an original...

Sweet as thanks

Hey so the 3 lever heater control mech is missing from my Fiat, I have the actual heater and 3x control cables coming out of it but nothing to actuate it. This is what it looks like, the bit on the left is a fan switch which I do not necessarily need; Can anyone suggest something that looks vaguely like that that I can hack in there? I have a heap of potential places to mount it so can print mounts and surrounds etc, I just need something with 3 levers really. Cheers in advance.

Ld28t obviously.

Cheers man. Things will slow down a bit now that it's time to get back to work, but shouldnt be to far away from done.

Yea so I did a bit of head scratching and asked the internet, this rather unusually resulted in an actually useful answer from a proper barry. It turns out that what I took to be an earth wire on the motor that didnt appear to be connected to anything was a signal return from the switching/diode setup on the back of the pod motor. With some extra direction from Barry and setting up a test rig on the bench I soon got the result I was after. I then had to ransack the old loom for some relay plugs to make up a little sub loom that sits in the headlight pocket, there is heaps of room so should be fine. And with some hours tidying and wrapping the front loom we have this sequence of exciting light based goodness; Next is looking at why the washer isnt pumping. Then maybe tomorrow I'll drop the engine....

Na i have solved it. I misunderstood that what appeared to be an earth wire was actually a signal return from the diode/switching gubbins. I need an extra relay for each side and a bit of loom jiggery pokery, but its all sorted.

Yea there was so much fuckery going on that there was no way I could work with it. However I may have overreached my abilities.

Lols I finished wiring up the front end except for the final wrap and decided to hook up a battery to see if what i had done actually worked. It all does except for the headlight pod motors, these start continuously popping up and down as soon as the key is on. This is undesirable, troubleshooting commences tomorrow...

Did the other side, pretty much the same deal so imagine those pics mirrored. For a break I decided to start in with the wiring install. If you remember this is pretty much where I got to; Then it immediately turned to madness Then after a couple of days effort rerouting and reterminating it got much tidier Working on the front of the car wiring now, and I'm probably going to have to drop the engine to do it justice in the engine bay and back of the car. Thats fine cos I want to sort a couple of things on the engine/clutch/gearbox.

Did this bit. This bit is supposedly where it got a nudge and there was half a tin of bog on there. It was weird because under the bog there was like a 5mm push in that basically wasnt even worth worrying about, but also a 'welded' patch that essentially came off with a screwdriver, and a strip of holes under the back sill that had been completely ignored. Commence sorting; Smashed some more black on those two rims while I was waiting for coats to dry, plus pottered with some other stuff. The tyres are the same ones that were on it when I sold it so I think it will be getting some new feet. Any suggestions in a 175/70-13 ?

Got some matt clear on it and kindof reassembled the front and various bits like the wiper mech. Bear in mind there is no wiring loom in there so it is not all that. Still it looks pretty great.

Got to the point of getting a bit of colour onto the front end after a chunk of fettling. I am clearly going to run out of colour before I'm done but we will see how well I can blend it in to the bits that are still there.

Yea I have been pretty happy with the results so far. The paint shop will probably be open on Wednesday, and I have plenty to go on with in the meantime..

Brush on would be ok for a lot of what I am doing... I do know someone coming to chch in the next couple of days, what part of town are you? Happy to flick some cash your way.

Daily update. This relentless shit is probably getting boring, but its for me not you so you can just bear with me or not. Today I made a front lip and grille carrier as the original is too rough to even bother fitting up. Its kinda rough in the finish department but frankly I dont give a shit as long as it performs the functions required. I found some stainless mesh, I'll see what I can do with that.

Apparently a lot of the NZ ones came through the UK due to the RHD'ness etc, which is potentially a bad situation. However I was told that by the 80s the Italians had started a cursory program of rust prevention on these, and it is more solid than you would expect so maybe this is true. But there is also a lot of veeeery thin steel to weld to, there has been a certain amount of hole chasing on this...

Paganism appears finished, the family went out for the day and must have felt that it would be painful to me to waste a day sitting around on my arse and so didnt invite me along. My wife is very understanding. Some wirebrushing revealed even more lovely holes; Ran out of brunox, just as well I have the wiring to get through if I run out of welding to do.....