Thread: HUGH the Heritage

Originally Posted by YOLO110

Looks like that left rear mud flap is getting melted smaller by the day mate!

It was looking very poorly so I took a pair of tin snips to the molten dripping piece & crimped a piece of pinch weld to smarten it up. I have since had to bond this with silastic adhesive & now all is good until I get my replacement mudflap:



No further damage since & have run approx 1000kms.

I was going to get a glove box from the UK but postage was outright shocking, so I made one over the past two days:

Removed dash pad from the cover, fiddly spring clips, but patience & a small screw driver & they do come off. Styrofoam pad is stored for future installation if reverted back to standard. Measure from the vehicle & draw up on graph paper:



Transferred to thin aluminium sheet:



Cut out with tin snips:



Holes drilled for rivets & dash lid, then painted with etch primer & matt black acrylic. Edged with small size pinch weld to prevent cuts on the sharp edges which were deburred but still quite sharp, as I only had 0.5mm thick alloy in the shed. Pinch weld also stiffens this up:



Install front plate with two small self tappers:



Rivet lid plate, & hinge plate to piano hinge - went for the Heritage brass version. Hinge plate then screws to existing cover mount using the same screws:



Finished article looks like the original, except a tad higher at the windscreen side:



I now have somewhere else to hide stuff, like glasses which I can never find in the cubby, they always sink down to the bottom under the cd's, hat, torch etc.

Well done !!

Thanks for sharing.

Hugh got some leather leather dashboard trim details today, thanks YOLO for dropping these off.





Looks very nice & smells rather good.

Mmmmmmm. Fresh leather smell

Originally Posted by Avion8

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I know it's early days, but how are you finding that steering wheel cover? And where did you find it? Something like that might help save me from the Moto-Lita urge I keep getting.

Originally Posted by jc109

I know it's early days, but how are you finding that steering wheel cover? And where did you find it? Something like that might help save me from the Moto-Lita urge I keep getting.

It is the standard cover for the Heritage steering wheel. It's OK but I'm going to replace it with a snap off Exmoor Trim wheel I have waiting in the wings!

Hugh has another new Keswick friend, a 110 this time & a recent delivery. A phone view in 42C heat at lunchtime today: