Right. Bus-bars.
Dimensions for same:
And they fit in here thusly:
And at this point I dropped everything and hurtled off to troubleshoot wiring for a customer. I built 'em a wiring loom for a fuel pump, for an Audi 1.8t swap into a Mk2 Golf GTI, and it wasn't working. Turned out not to be entirely my wiring at fault (other than the impact switch was wired backwards in the pigtail, so you had to crash the car for the fuel-pump to work.) but the wrong type of crazy VW relay in the fusebox that was looking for the wrong switching. Swapped that out, fuel pump works (along with their ignition feed to the ECU.) Swap a wire on a different relay, and ignition coils work properly. Grand stuff, but that took the rest of the day..
Well, as they say, tomorrow is a different day. And today sure was.
Feeds in and out, with diodes, to kick in the relay at the appropriate time and let it self-latch.
With that productivity out of the way, time for the soothing sound of an angle grinder for several hours!
Some bonus flap-disk action~
Uncovered some previous repairs underneath the green paint.
Covered up the floor underneath a growing mountain of filth.
Stuffed the previously-built new cab crossmember underneath.
Mark and trim to the existing framework angle
Do the typical mechanic thing and curse the fool who designed this, 'cause they clearly don't know anything, and have never worked on anything before...
(...and no, my socket does not fit through the nice convenient hole I made for the socket to go through. Augh.)
Marvellous!
I also ended up stripping both pedals out, and took the clutch pedal lever off to grease the pivot point. Turns out it's supposed to be oiled regularly, with a little oil dropper hole, and it hasn't actually seen any lubrication in a long time judging by the build-up of fretting rust.
A grease nipple would probably be better. The shopping list continues to grow. More to come, later. Probably next weekend. I'm exhausted. Time for another week of work.