I feel the same way with my 74. worked all day on it, just want to get it on the
road I think I'll pull a Jeff :-) and Fibreglass my front floors also, Till
I get the 63 done. Then I'll weld the complete floor pans in when I restore
the 74. I was going to weld the pans in with the body on, but that would not be
the right way to do it. It would be a Half job.
I did manage to cut out metal for the front floors. Rebuilt the Clutch system
and bled it with my MIGHTY VAC.
I rebuilt the Brake master cylinder and bled the system. I pulled the steering
wheel so I can put the dash in when it gets here. I had to pull the wiper system
, it was jammed. I pulled my leaky gas tank and I pulled the radiator. I'll take
those to the radiator shop. All in all, a lot of work but now it is less road
worthy.
Was surprised that the previous owner has put in a new rear spring, noticed that
while I bled the rear brakes.
And I did finish welding in the new battery box and Prime it.
Pat
63 Spitfire (on hold)
74 Spitfire ( working my off )
68 Chevy C10 (on hold)
Jeff McNeal wrote:
> Does anyone else feel this way? Today, I spent most of my spare time on my
> Spitfire, bead blasting and re-painting my horns, getting them to work
> (after some strange false starts) and swapping out my tranny cover with a
> proper Mk3 style so I can have functional back-up lights. Unfortunately,
> the back up lights still don't work -- and now something in the circuit is
> blowing the fuse, which also knocks out the turn signals. This simply won't
> do. I can't be blowing fuses every time I put into reverse! The fuse in
> there was a 17amp continuous, 35 amp/blow variety. I suppose that I'd
> better make sure that that's correct for the turn signals/backup lights.
>
> I know that the PO replaced the wiring harness at some point during his
> twenty year ownership, but it looks as though the wire loom (in the boot at
> least) is not correct. According to my service manual, the hot leads to the
> back up lights should be green/brown, whereas the wires leading into the
> bulb units are white/red. ??
>
> Now I've got a proper green/brown coming off the back-up switch on the
> transmission -- and a proper green wire feeding it power, but after the
> green brown disappears past the electrical tape binding of the harness, I
> can't seem to find where the green/brown leaves off and the white/red wires
> come into play.
>
> I think if I had unlimited time, I could work on this car 'round the clock.
> Oh well, two small victories today at least -- fixing a broken front turn
> signal lamp and getting the dual-note, original horns to sound off properly.
> At least now if my single line brake system fails, I can at least honk at
> pedestrians to warn them I'm coming.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff in San Diego
> '67 RHD Spitfire Mk3 aka "Mrs. Jones"
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