Happy update time.. it runs! After chasing around electrical gremlins which ended up in a instrument cluster swap among other things I finished yesterdays efforts by filling the carb with fuel, pulling the choke out and turning the key. Two seconds later and it fired up easily. I'll get a video later. Couldnt run it for long as Id not filled it with coolant yet. I'm so happy. I'll be happier when Ive taken it for a drive and confirmed it has not got any issues like BHG etc.
So going back a few days here's some things that have been finished..
First off.
I finished the wiring and mounted the solenoid, tucked out of the way under the servo..
Then I thought I'd better fit the speedo cable. But it didn't turn. It was seized solid in one spot. I tried so many things to free it up, lots of wd40, plusgas, twisting, wiggling, pulling, pushing etc and finally it freed up but only one half...
Luckily I had a spare cable from when Viva one was swapped over from cable speedo to my home made electronic setup.
But it was really long, made to suit the Mazda rx7 gearbox and how do I shorten the inner down? I tried years ago to grind a new square end and it doesn't work. So I looked it up and the square end is actually squeezed into shape! I made a little form tool from some steel and at 5mm a time I squeezed my new cut down inner into shape...
It worked a treat!..
The sparkplug leads that came with the car are horrible old red Repco branded items. Not a chance they will get fitted...
I priced up leads in NZ and the prices were stupidly high, even at trade. Plus most are coloured blue or red. So Ebay Uk and the nice people at..
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/The-Green-Spar ... 7675.l2563.. had just what I needed.
7 days later and I had a nice new set of good quality black leads for only 15 squid inc postage!!!
Yesterday was finishing little things and sorting out why instruments didnt work. I found a defective circuit strip thing plus a broken plastic casing on the cluster so I swapped the parts across from a spare..
While I did that Hannah did some other jobs.. like clean the mucky sunvisors..
That is it really.. I'm hoping to do a bit more today and then take it for a drive to check it out. Very excited. It currently sits here waiting..