Thread: Time for a Re-fit

While I've got the opportunity, with the vehicle in bits, it's good to be able to add a feature here or there from ideas that have come along over the years. Not always essential, but good to do nonetheless. I picked up a nice battery isolator switch this week. I've mounted it near the clutch pedal, out of the way of my foot and, as far as the other side of the firewall is concerned, in about the only place left that would have been convenient in the engine bay anyway.

I have never really had electrical problems with the vehicle, but it is good to be able to cut all power in an instant should I ever need to do so.

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Next door are the switches for the interior light, rear work-light, stereo and (when I find the right switch) klaxon. Above will be engine temperature and oil pressure gauges.

What oh what will you use a klaxon for dear John?

P.S. I know where you can obtain an orange and green flashing light bar if you're wanting to go all out....I mean, you'll feel incomplete with just a klaxon won't you?

Originally Posted by bell1975

What oh what will you use a klaxon for dear John?

P.S. I know where you can obtain an orange and green flashing light bar if you're wanting to go all out....I mean, you'll feel incomplete with just a klaxon won't you?

Who wouldn't want a klaxon?? I had always thought it'd be fine to have one for a horn, given the Landy's venerable age, and mentioned this to a friend one evening. "I have one of those lying in the back of my car!!!" he said. We went out to his car, he rummaged in the back of it and then presented me with a klaxon. It was meant to be.

P.S. I think I will pass on the light bar, fine idea as it may be....

Yeah, they'd have looked a little bit out of place given the vintage of your Landy. And although the pace dropped off there a while back it's good to see that there's still some DBG being splashed around your shed John.

How's the head coming along?

Originally Posted by bell1975

How's the head coming along?

I'm leaving it until I'm back from my leave. Will concentrate upon it then....

Had a little bit of a tinker today: Wired up the gauge from the left hand tank, put a bit of fuel in the tank; it seems to be calibrated pretty well.

Then I spent a while re-drawing the wiring diagram for the vehicle, including all the changes of late such as new components and various bits and pieces replaced. In a sign of the times, I have gone from 1991's hand-drawn version to spending time to do a digital version. It looks pretty (though, like all things computery it took me much longer than doing it with paper and pencils would have done.....).

The instrument panels are almost ready. A lot of fiddling today to hook everything up; all that's left to do is to clean up the left hand main gauge cluster (I decided that it wasn't tidy enough) and wire in the auxiliary stuff like stereo and extra lighting when they are ready to go into the vehicle.

I'm leaving the bit of takeaway container plastic over the extra fuel gauge for a while as I want to check the calibration further as I gradually fill the tank before closing it off with my homemade bezel.

I can't decide if that temp gauge, with its white face, looks too out of place. I'd prefer it matched the rest of the gauges... but the trouble is it's a really good gauge. I'll see how I feel down the track a bit....