Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Jag, Citroens, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2021 12:05 pm
Not sure if I'll have a chance to do much today but did get an hour or so in yesterday.
Main target was a second pass at trying to get the driver's door on the Jag into a state vaguely resembling weather proof.
Now the easiest solution to this would probably be to build a time machine and go back to prevent whoever replaced the electric window mechanism from being lazy and not bothering to refit the original weather sheet (I found it bundled up in the bottom of the door).
The proper way to do this (and may yet be the road I need to go down) is to remove that to allow me to refit a contiguous sheet across the whole door...however I *really* don't want to faff around with the window if I don't have to as it works perfectly.
After some time and no small amount of swearing we had coverage along the whole door (save for an "n" shaped cutout around the window motor).
There are additional layers behind the interior door handle and speaker void as those are the two areas that I'd been aware of water getting into the car from, so I figured doubling up there from both sides of the door skin couldn't be a bad thing. The main point of ingress at the front appears to be through the wing mirror, so hopefully this should work.
If it does I'll need to repeat the performance on the passenger side as that also leaks - albeit several orders of magnitude less badly.
While I was there I finally got around to finding a replacement for the missing securing screw for the light under the arm rest. Hopefully the lens won't fall off roughly every tenth time the door is closed now.
Thanks to a suggestion from someone on another forum I realised that I'd made a stupid mistake with the wipers. I had completely failed to spot that the wiper arms are sided. With them flipped around I was able to get things sitting far better in the parked position.
Every day's a school day.
Main target was a second pass at trying to get the driver's door on the Jag into a state vaguely resembling weather proof.
Now the easiest solution to this would probably be to build a time machine and go back to prevent whoever replaced the electric window mechanism from being lazy and not bothering to refit the original weather sheet (I found it bundled up in the bottom of the door).
The proper way to do this (and may yet be the road I need to go down) is to remove that to allow me to refit a contiguous sheet across the whole door...however I *really* don't want to faff around with the window if I don't have to as it works perfectly.
After some time and no small amount of swearing we had coverage along the whole door (save for an "n" shaped cutout around the window motor).
There are additional layers behind the interior door handle and speaker void as those are the two areas that I'd been aware of water getting into the car from, so I figured doubling up there from both sides of the door skin couldn't be a bad thing. The main point of ingress at the front appears to be through the wing mirror, so hopefully this should work.
If it does I'll need to repeat the performance on the passenger side as that also leaks - albeit several orders of magnitude less badly.
While I was there I finally got around to finding a replacement for the missing securing screw for the light under the arm rest. Hopefully the lens won't fall off roughly every tenth time the door is closed now.
Thanks to a suggestion from someone on another forum I realised that I'd made a stupid mistake with the wipers. I had completely failed to spot that the wiper arms are sided. With them flipped around I was able to get things sitting far better in the parked position.
Every day's a school day.