Build Day 40- Exhaust, Battery, Steering, and Wipers

Day 40- Exhaust, Battery, Steering, and Wipers

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To finish off the exhaust system I fitted the cat heat shield, and dad fitted the lambda probe. The heat shield went on simply enough, just thread the two jubilee clips through the shield brackets and slide over the cat, then tighten with the heads on the inside of the cat. The lambda probe simply screws in and connects to the wiring loom. In order to protect the wiring we wrapped the head and the first few cm of the wiring with self amalgamating tape. We have the wiring routed up the front of the foot box and then along the front of the pedal box to the connector.

Clips threaded through shield.

Polished cat with springs and band clamp on.

Shield on.

Lambda probe in and wrapped.

Battery

Quickly connected the battery leads after giving them a quick clean, then managed to break both of the very brittle terminal covers. We just used some glue to fix the top and cut come slots out to allow the leads out.

Leads connected.

Cables tidied and covers fixed and on.

When the battery was fully connected we tested all of the electrics, apart from the engine, and everything works so far!! Fingers crossed that the engine start goes without a hitch.

Wiper Blades

As the blades have smaller than a 3mm radius on the ends of them they require to be filed down to comply to the IVA test. I did this with a small hand file, then painted the ends with some black Hamerite metal paint after I had cleaned them.

Blade ends.

Steering

Started by attaching the steering wheel, then the universal joint. However first we had to make a better assessment of the steering, as at the moment they are a few degrees toed out, despite having 13 turns on each rod end, so turned each one in, on turn at a time, until they were straight, then did it one more turn on each end. Then we reattached the track rod ends to the uprights, put the rack central, then attached the universal joint to the steering column. 

Wish the pad wasn't required, the wheel looks much better without it.

Steering universal joint, as straight as possible.