23-10-2014, 03:51 PM
Hi,
I'm getting too old to go lying half in half out of the passenger's footwell. It hurts.
I gave the panel under the glove box a tug, and it came out clean. I tried to find how the glove box was held in, but lack of space, darkness, creaky bones, and spectacles combined to make it impossible. When you are wearing specs, there is no point in moving your eyes to compensate for your face being at the wrong angle, you just look around the lenses. So, as the box was sort of broken already ... "It came away in my hand, Sir!" At least it no longer sits on the passenger's knees. But I still can't see how the hinges are held to the dash ... unless it's those two pop-rivets ???
And I'm not agile enough to get at the screws holding the heater motor in, and I can only sort of see two screws anyway.
So Plan B is to take the final trip to South Wales, with trailer, on Sunday, to clear what's left in the garage. Then leave everything alone till she goes through an early MOT in November.
In the mean time, I found out why the bonnet was reluctant to shut .... the secondary catch was bent forward and prevented the bonnet dropping all the way. Two hours to find, five seconds to fix.
I also looked at the end of the clutch cable, cos it's been creaky ever since I had the car. The "top-hat " thingy pulled easily out of the fork, but didn't want to go right home again, so its sticking out about 1/4". For some reason, the clutch pedal is much smoother. How did that happen? Maybe I should mention that I haven't driven the car today. Fingers crossed that it doesn't slip.
Now if I could just sort out the starting. Cold start requires a slow count of 10 AFTER the lamp goes out, then starts perfectly. Hot start needs to wait till lamp goes out, then starts perfectly. ???
602
I'm getting too old to go lying half in half out of the passenger's footwell. It hurts.
I gave the panel under the glove box a tug, and it came out clean. I tried to find how the glove box was held in, but lack of space, darkness, creaky bones, and spectacles combined to make it impossible. When you are wearing specs, there is no point in moving your eyes to compensate for your face being at the wrong angle, you just look around the lenses. So, as the box was sort of broken already ... "It came away in my hand, Sir!" At least it no longer sits on the passenger's knees. But I still can't see how the hinges are held to the dash ... unless it's those two pop-rivets ???
And I'm not agile enough to get at the screws holding the heater motor in, and I can only sort of see two screws anyway.
So Plan B is to take the final trip to South Wales, with trailer, on Sunday, to clear what's left in the garage. Then leave everything alone till she goes through an early MOT in November.
In the mean time, I found out why the bonnet was reluctant to shut .... the secondary catch was bent forward and prevented the bonnet dropping all the way. Two hours to find, five seconds to fix.
I also looked at the end of the clutch cable, cos it's been creaky ever since I had the car. The "top-hat " thingy pulled easily out of the fork, but didn't want to go right home again, so its sticking out about 1/4". For some reason, the clutch pedal is much smoother. How did that happen? Maybe I should mention that I haven't driven the car today. Fingers crossed that it doesn't slip.
Now if I could just sort out the starting. Cold start requires a slow count of 10 AFTER the lamp goes out, then starts perfectly. Hot start needs to wait till lamp goes out, then starts perfectly. ???
602