Well, folks, I hope you've had a nice restful festive season, and you're looking forward to the new year!
I've done a little poking the megasquirt stuff, mostly combing through logs and trying to figure out that mysterious choke n die at low RPM; it did also lose sync a couple of times when revved up high, so I'm wondering if there's some noise being picked up somewhere that's causing it to have a freak-out. Maybe some odd harmonic of ignition noise that makes it through the filtering, or whatnot. I have some transient suppression diodes on the way to clamp one potential source of that, and I'm considering ordering some resistive core HT lead to replace the copper lead I have now.
I did pull spark-plugs to check how they look, after seeing that clip and noticing that the headers glowed somewhat (Though I don't recall noticing any glow in person, and I know the camera is more sensitive to the infra-red than the human eye is), and to perhaps no-one's great surprise they're definitely a bit sooty and it's running rich.
Buuuuuuut, it's also not really done much beyond a few warm-up cycles, as I don't want to run for too long without having a heatshield on the starter (Starter blanket is in my ebay basket for next paycheck) and frankly I have too much stuff balanced in precarious positions at the moment to make it a quick task to do a rip around the industrial estate. (...though, considering it for a New Year's thing. Well, minus one minor hiccup I'll mention later.)
Anyway, I started wedging body-panels back on and forcing things about with the jack and a block of wood, so I can start getting the passenger's step affixed in place without the embarassing sag. Which was about the point I discovered a slight boo-boo.
May have put that in the wrong place...
Because it hits here first! Oh well, not too big a job to cut the stop-plate off and shorten it. At least I'd not painted it all up again...
Door-bottom is definitely not the shape it used to be, which ... considering the gap, isn't a bad thing; it's not all in my step. So I think some gentle massaging will greatly improve that.
For some more comical mis-measuring, I went and added in another fill panel to start building out the corner of the cab again...
Nevermind. If I can step over it, I can weld it...
At which point...
(Headlight just wedged in the hole for now.)
I exploded my extension lead. Well, okay, no, the PVC insulation on the extension lead was clearly getting brittle right where it went into the socket, and it eventually cracked enough to let the copper touch some metal debris on the floor; cue the bang, a nice bright spark, and the lights going out in the unit. Just at the point I turned the truck's lights on. So I jumped back up, flipped the isolator, then just froze a moment... in the complete darkness...
Ah, fuck.
Thanks to how the unit's electrickery is wired (the sparkies in the audience will probably groan quietly if I say the magic word: "selectivity"), I not only tripped the RCBO for the socket circuit in the board in the unit (which was easy to reset), but the RCBO in the main panel that feeds the unit. So I'll have no mains power there 'til the new year, when I can get someone from the company next-door where the main panel lives, to flip the damn breaker back on. This also includes the shutter, which is electrically wound up n down. There is, thankfully, a little widget for a manual crank handle to fit onto...
So if I want to hoon the truck around the industrial estate for the new year, I have to manually wind the door open, tidy everything off the truck, drive the truck outside far enough to put some wheels on the back, do my hoonage, reverse the truck back up to the door, take the wheels back off, carefully drive it back in, then manually wind the door back down.
...hmmm.
(Oh, and probably come up with a starter heatshield, too. Unless I want another horrible surprise.)
Anyway!
I may have previously mentioned I had some of the headlight adjuster screws break off in the housing, and that a fix would be coming.
Yeah, the springs will need to be replaced, the original adjusters were a lot deeper so the springs sank down into them; and there's also some additional fettling needed to get everything to line up where it should, because I'm using larger screws. (M5, rather than whatever was there before.)
So at the end of day today, that left us here:
(The wing is precariously balanced on there, and held in place by two
studs (sans nuts) and one M6 bolt carefully wiggled into a 1/4UNF
hole. Correct nuts & bolts on order. 
And if I were
going to hoon the truck about, I'd take it off lest it suffer a
terrible fate.)