Tuesday, 9 November 2021

Week 43 - The Build

First job this week was to adjust one of the switches operated by the brake pedal. Part of the switch was up against the steering column which is not good. Here you can see where it's mounting bracket has been bent over a bit to give a good clearance.
 



Next job is to secure the morse cable that connects the rudder to the steering. The forward end connects to the starboard suspension spring which rotates as the steering is applied. the other end is secured to the rudder. Here is is!

Next job was the tightening up and tidying up of stuff in the wheel arches. Notably the trackrod ball joints, wishbone pinch bolt and tying back the brake pipe and wheel speed sensor cable. I've got some white PU sealer coming to seal all the through hull holes which will be done in a single seeion later.


The avid reader of this blog will remember the key falling out of the pto pulley. This has now been sorted out with a couple of dabs of weld between the key and the shaft and the key and the pulley.

An important feature of any modern motor vehicle is to have the ability to know the outside temperature. I've mounted the sensor on the outside of the scuttle near the fuel filler.

Because I can, I've taken the wires from the original 'bonnet open' switch to a pair of spring mounted bolts that are shorted out by a copper plate glued to the inside of the bonnet. Here you can see the plate and the contacts..

and here the contacts in more detail.




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Week 57 - The Test

 Got all the paperwork off to register it as a car now to test it as a boat!! Here are a couple of videos and some photos of it in action....