Woohoo!! Reassembly starts!

I like relays ... u can do all sort of weird things with them :eek:

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Steve,
I like overkill :whistle: Just feel it's safer for a lot of the circuits. Probably wont use all of the sockets, just put them in as there was room for them and you never know what you might add in the future.

The loom says its man enough for no relays, but I dont trust some of it - electric fan pulls 30A so prefer that on its own circuit.

Yes, using Ford MKIII Cortina column switches, been told they cant handle high loads.

Also makes it easier to extend the loom if it only has to go a few inches to relays, I can then use new wires or splice them easier from there.

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Relays can go wrong you know Mark :( Ive never had a problem with any aftermarket kit handling the power, millions sold !!!

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I like relays ... u can do all sort of weird things with them :eek:

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And weird things happen when they go wrong :eek:

You might be right Steve, cheap relays have a lot to answer for.
As I said though, Ford stalks are not built for high loads.

Skiing holiday, sale of house falling through, getting kittens, loss of mojo and studying wiring diagrams have all taken their toll on me getting anything done on the pop.

Thought I'd give up on the wiring theory today and flat & polish the rear wings for fitting.
All went quite well untill disaster struck, I chipped the corner off the wing :no::mad: I also polished through to the glass on the edge of the same corner, so I'll have to repaint that bit after some more filler work :(
Not happy with the finish, still some scratches not polished out so I'll re-flat it this week to get rid of them.

I mounted the wing anyway to see how it all looked, it did not fit quite as good as when I built it but it gave in eventually, and I left the heaters on it for an hour for it to relax into the correct shape again.

Damaged corner :(

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Shame about the chip Mark, sad to say it may not be the last!. Still looking good though...

each bit done is a bit nearer the end ,i think we all have the chip to do when we put it back together i like to protect the edges with tape when i polish and on fitting stop most but not all.for the areas near the edges i use a snapon 3" air polisher it is one very usefull tool

Yeah, it just caught the edge of the workbench while polishing.
Brian, it's about the 4th chip so far.....

Nice,you can start to see how its going to look now.
Re the chip,if you are having wing piping that will be barely noticeable if at all when touched up.

It will have piping, but I'll still know it was there so will be done anyway :)

looks good ,nice work ,on home run :party2:

Finally sussed the worst part of the wiring - hazard warning circuits.
Pretty simple circuits in the end, just getting 15yr old hazard switches & 30 yr old steering stalks to work with modern wiring was the tricky bit.

Mocked it all up in the office to make sure it worked properly.

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Circuit diagrams so far, might help other people?

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hi mark that looks like you are haveing fun with that i will have this to come

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Originally Posted by 53pop

hi mark that looks like you are haveing fun with that i will have this to come

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Yeah me too Allan, nice one Mark, keep it coming.

Cheers Tim W.

It's not bad really, just kills my eyes studying tiny wiring diagrams and re drawing them all in CAD.
Next job is to get the Mini wipers working with the ford stalk as I fancy adding an aftermarket intermittent wipe relay in as well :)

Got bored of doing theory electrics and got back to the practical stuff.
I wasn't happy with the rear wing that I polished the other day, so I flatted it back again and polished from scratch again. Much better now.

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Fitted the rear lights, to see how it looked :) still got to repair the chipped corner though.

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The other wing is now also being flatted prior to polishing.

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And hopefully this video will work;

the video works on rodsnsods :yes:

Dunno why it wont work here :(

Just need the [youtube] + the shortlink

This is what Ian T sent me in a pm very helpfull


To make this work you only need the id of the youtube video - the bit between the &v= and the & - as follows in bold:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBMM1oOfR30&feature=related

In the advanced view of the thread editor you'll now see a little YouTube button - click that to get the pair of [youtube] codes, then paste your youtube video id in between the [youtube] codes so it looks like this.. (obviously with 'Y's instead of 'X's)

[XOUTUBE]rBMM1oOfR30[/XOUTUBE]