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The car is back from the painter and it feels like I am on the home stretch now. 

New weather belts and door seals have arrived from Australia.

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There was a little light surface rusting in the area where the weather belts fit into the tops of the doors so I carefully cleaned it up  and gave it a couple of coats of paint for protection.

Before

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After

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I also started fiddling around with the exterior door trims. 

I will install the trims with a combination of original and new trim clips as appropriate for each piece of trim.

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Getting all the clips installed in the correct position is actually kind of tricky so some patience will be required.

 

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Slow progress this week as I was kind of distracted by the awesome event that is Gumboot Rally, I did however manage to get the front door cards finished off.

Some of the stitching was kind of rotten so I tried out the sewing skills that I learned in 3rd form home economics.

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Then reattached the vinyl to the cards and fitted some replacement trim clips in place of the original items that were mostly lost or in poor condition.

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All fixed and looking good

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So it seems I made that age old mistake of driving the car before it is actually finished so several jobs on the original to do list haven't happened.

Did install an important accessory on the rear windscreen today.

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This weekend I am going to make a committed effort to install the new door seals that have been sitting on my work bench for at least a month.

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I started the weekend by doing some laundry.............

Take sheepskin seat covers

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Risk marital disharmony by soaking in suitably sized container

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Stir around a little until water turns this delightful colour

MMMMMMMM YUMMY!

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And outside to dry in the sun

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Also installed the new door seals this weekend.

These have been sitting on my work bench for months so it's about time.

I removed the old seals and was very happy to find all the sheet metal in good condition.

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New seals fitted and looking way tidier.

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And this week it is...............

Boring routine maintenance

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Changed oil and filter, checked plugs and points etc.

Took it for a drive after maintenance and found that the fuel gauge was acting up. It intermittently flicks to full scale while driving. I thought I may have disturbed a connection during maintenance activities but after checking and cleaning connections the problem persisted. I figured the sender unit must be the culprit so I measured the resistance of the sender with a meter and made a sender unit substitute from some resistors that I had lying around.

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I fitted the dummy resistance in place of the sender and the gauge sat nicely around half scale.

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Took it for a good drive and the gauge was perfect so that confirms the sender unit is crook.

Will need to remove it sometime and see if it can be repaired.

 

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