What have I done since last time I posted? Sori, Bangor! (Ond ddim mewn gwirionedd.) --

Well, I have learned a thing or two today. Does this seem vaguely familiar, in a way? Turns out, my guess that the servo's off a later truck, is spot on. The screenshot above is from a copy of the Read more…

Time for the tiniest of updates! As a treat! Progress on the welding? I welded part of the passenger's side door step back in the wrong place, and I'm still in a little bit of a mood about it, two weeks later. It's not the end of the world, but I've got to unpick and re-weld in the right place, and I'm not feeling like it. Not helped by me also having to do a load of welding on the car, which

Core plugs. More rust-treatment. (45% phosphoric acid, no special brand.) Thermostat is an 82°C, 54mm jobbie. Seems pretty common.

Did some measuring, got a 36-1 trigger wheel for the crank trigger. Turned out, I screwed up my measuring. Outside diameter of the teeth is ... pretty much spot on for the outside diameter of the pulley.

Thinking about the lights again, I might just have to built it all up with the old-school incandescent light housings, and put in some decent LED bulbs. Always an option, if I get sick of chasing burnt out bulbs. In the meantime, I tore apart a perfectly working fuse-box because I

Seems a little dark, compared to the remnants of what was already on the engine, but I'm going to keep on with it. Additionally, I have made some progress on re-wiring the back lights, now with an additional 4 or so years of experience since I did it the first time and with things having changed slightly! The original design had the wiring to each rear light cluster pass

Also, part of the reason I've been so slow on this even when I am at the unit: My brother got a Mk2 Jetta. The wiring has been a little ... lovingly attended to; and the Weber carb was retrofitted with -- no joke -- cable-ties and sikaflex. I... may or may not have exploded the carb off the manifold trying to start it. There was -- hypothetically, yer 'onour -- a lot of sikaflex shrapnel, and a very impressive fireball.