Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Lada, Citroen, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 7:46 pm
Initially had planned to do a couple of useful things today however wound up running out of patience with the mess in the Invacar cabin.
The one task I did manage was to sort out the heater controls. The control for the cabin heater was sticky, traced to the cable sheath moving. The termination at the actual heater box isn't great, but fastening the three cables together has solved the problem. Of course it's also made them tidier which is also extremely important.
It was about this point that I knocked a bunch of tools over again, and felt it necessary to do a bit of tidying up.
Fire extinguisher was shoved back in the bracket as I was tired of falling over it, dropping it on my toes etc. Do need to find a proper bracket though as it's had one for the later powder type which is taller.
Having cleared a load of random tools and general debris out of the car it became very obvious how filthy it was...so the cleaning supplies came out.
Slightly more pleasant place to be now. Really need to get a new grip for the handlebars as I'm fed up of finding bits of blue foam everywhere.
Garage itself actually needs the same treatment now...
I've a load of brake fittings on the way which will hopefully mean I can tidy my earlier work there up soon.
The one task I did manage was to sort out the heater controls. The control for the cabin heater was sticky, traced to the cable sheath moving. The termination at the actual heater box isn't great, but fastening the three cables together has solved the problem. Of course it's also made them tidier which is also extremely important.
It was about this point that I knocked a bunch of tools over again, and felt it necessary to do a bit of tidying up.
Fire extinguisher was shoved back in the bracket as I was tired of falling over it, dropping it on my toes etc. Do need to find a proper bracket though as it's had one for the later powder type which is taller.
Having cleared a load of random tools and general debris out of the car it became very obvious how filthy it was...so the cleaning supplies came out.
Slightly more pleasant place to be now. Really need to get a new grip for the handlebars as I'm fed up of finding bits of blue foam everywhere.
Garage itself actually needs the same treatment now...
I've a load of brake fittings on the way which will hopefully mean I can tidy my earlier work there up soon.