Back to square one FFS

 So the day started bright and early, wifey out for the morning leaving me with a whole day to get on with stuff.

The priority was :-

1/.    Get engine running briefly, fill with water, check oil and any leaks. ( It's been connected to battery charger for at least 10 hours )

2/.   Attach choke cable to lever/pull knob ( weld) then re-route to carb linkage

3/.   Wire wheel tailgate and bonnet catches, find screws.

Well, how many do you think I achieved.

One.......number 2/. Only...........hence FFS.

As soon as he battery charger was removed and the key turned..........nothing but the fuel pump chattering away. Red light on on dash, goes out when key fully turned but nothing from the engine bay.

On investigation there was an errant black wire coming off the cluster of wires at the starter relay not connected to the terminal of the ignition relay. No bother, 5 mins to make another and attach to the earth side .

Bad move, starting up again only saw a pluther of smoke coming from said relay, and a melted wire, again.

The same thing happened a few months ago which prompted me to get Tony the wizard auto electrician. He'd had it sorted and left me with a few tasks like renew fuse box and fuses and tidy up the wiring.

So again I spent hours trying to figure out where I went wrong with the relay/fuse box wiring.

So it looks like I need another relay and another visit from Tony.

I left it at that and dragged the mig welder up from the shed and fitted a Halfords stainless steel brake cable [ more than long enough this time] It was a doddle to weld with just 3 dibs  holding it firm and a light tickle with the scary grinder fitted with a thin disc well worn down small.

I was worried about the routing of the Bowden cable ( the outer sheath) but once poked through the centre fascia it was obvious where it was to go. One problem is that when you google the routing there is so many American sites they all show the LH drive routes, so as I said it was fairly obvious once the cable was in a little way. One good tip was to fit a large nut behind the choke body on the inside of the fascia. Apparently the proper nut is a thin version and difficult to tighten as well as get to. Thank you to John Twist of University motors for that top tip.

As usual when I have a list of items to get on with I go and do something totally irrelevant, so I gave the sun visors a good scrub. They were filthy but cleaned up nice, see.

The back of the visors is cream/ beige and didn't clean up so well. So due to the fact the side cant rails are in the same condition I.e  stained and discoloured I've decided to paint/ dye them black in the fullness of time, together with a black roof lining.

I've noticed that all of the black vinyl I've cleaned always seems to leave a brown residue in the bottom of the creases/ texture. Does anyone know how to resolve this ?. So far I've tried :- windowlene, hob cleaner, meths, white spirit, WD 40 and lastly surgical spirit. At least I now know what the strange smell coming off old people is .....guffaw.

Next up is the repair ?? and cleaning of these

More soon folks after Tony electrical wizard visits . P.S.  the pressure is on as we are having the roof ridge tiles replaced and the driveway will be full of scaffold so the MG needs to move preferably under its own power.