Day 157-171
The past few weeks I've made up some centre caps for the Flare alloys, but for some reason two don't fit in the hole, so I modified them a bit, but they still won't, so I had to order some more. I'll get them done when they arrive next week I expect.
I've also been cleaning up some spare VT calipers I had. I'll do a 'how to' up when I get the correct seals and they are finished. The carriers are ready to be machined down, and the main caliper bodies are soaking in vinegar for a bit longer, as one is pretty rusty.
Today I finally got round to fitting the roof bars! It was a miiiiiissssssion!!! Thought I may as well as it was sunny all day, and my mum is coming home on Friday, so my dad will be busy, and wouldn't be able to help.
Firstly I had to remove the headlining, which meant taking out the four grab handles, all four seatbelts, and unclip all the surrounding trim.
Then I placed the bars where they needed to go, marked the holes, drilled them out (6 each side). As the JDM chassis has captive nuts on the underside of the roof skin, the original bolt I have weren't long enough, so I used self-tapers' on the front and rear feet, and the centre ones already have nuts inside, so I just had to feed up the bolt and screw it in from the inside.
Then screw covers on, taped up the end ones so no water could get in, then put a load of weatherproof gutter sealant round each foot, to make sure no water got in = no rust (hopefully). I'm really paranoid about it rusting, but I sprayed some Dynaz S50 inside, and put sealant round the holes I drilled, so I should be fine.
Then I put the Thule roof-bar kit on, that took literally 1 minute!
Hay-presto!
I'll get the wind fairing on tomorrow, then thats pretty much all I can do now. I still need a manifold heat shield as the one I bought off a D16Y doesn't fit, but I'll get the one off the scrapped Beagle when I go there for the last time!
And I
still haven't managed to get the other foglight working..
