It's taken me longer than it should to get around to doing this, but: If you have a late production Skoda Favorit (or similar derived model like the Forman pickup?) with the Mono-Motronic fuel injection, there is a 5-pin diagnostic connector at the back of the engine bay hiding behind the charcoal canister. It's a 5-pin JPT connector, and the matching housing should already be in place as a blanking cap; so you can pull the rubber plugs out of

Wiper arms and blades came in, and a few things have been learnt. 1. I very definitely got the geometry of my new spindles wrong. Barely 45° of sweep! Not too bad to fix, just means redrilling a hole; and now that I've put the arms and blades on, I know what my clearances are, so I know how much to change it. 85° should do it, with the 13" blades.

Tiny little morsel of an update (mostly from late May) Welding up the surplus holes in the dashboard continues. Including slightly shrinking the size of one of the ones I'm going to keep, because it's just a bit too baggy for the warning light I want to put in it.

Remember these things? They go here: And with a bit of jiggery-pokery, the linkage attaches like so.

Well, then. Let's get caught up, shall we? Are you sitting comfortably? No? That's fine, neither am I. My knees and hips are killing me... half-tempted to drill and tap them for grease-nipples. ... I finally decided on a colour for the cab interior, though: BS381C 626

Right. Bus-bars. Dimensions for same:

Since last time! ### I discovered an annoying bit of corrosion on the radiator Thankfully, this shouldn't cause any leaks, it's just a structural concern, but I'm confident I can fix it. Radiator is currently sitting

A fit of productivity was brought on by painkillers, resulting in: That's right. I've finished welding the passenger's side door-step! ...Well, the top face of it, anyway. Underneath still needs trimming and whatnot, and the floor isn't totally complete yet. (And then I've still got loads to do elsewhere, and...)