A home at last

 Yes, that's right folks the MG has its own home. Dry and spacious, warm and inviting. Smooth floored and draught, damp and rain free..,,,,,!!!

It's only taken 30 years. A garage was there when we bought the house back then, but on moving in day it had somehow disappeared. 

''Twas only a rusty, rickety corrugated small thing anyway and we had a lot more on our plate than to worry about the outside of the house. Like that all the lightbulbs had also been removed. 

Anyway....digression over and back to the MG.

Lo and behold

What a thing of beauty. Thats where the good news ends though. Still had trouble starting the engine  so I bit the bullet and ran an extension from the kitchen into the garage to give the battery a damn good charge for two and a half days. 

Great. Cranks every time now. It eventually started but still ran a bit rough, well a lot rough.

Moreover the radiator overflow tank overflowed......again.

Even moreover, the right hand hazard warning light did not flash, neither did the same indicator, pfffft.

It gets worse. The hazard warning switch ( which is only about 3 months old ) disintegrated completely after I had to wrap tape around the outside to stop it/ make it work correctly straight after installation. This really pisses me off, why pay good money for something that is sub standard, poorly designed and never going to last very long anyway. To add insult to injury, I ordered some time ago a new fan switch only to find I already had not one but two ! Ffs.

And that's not the end of the woes.

The horn does not work at all. Not a peep. All the electrics worked a few weeks ago, but since I fitted the steering wheel binnacle/ housing and tidied up all the under dash wiring bundles nuffin.

I've saved the worse till last.

Since the battery is fully operational now most startups the starter motor spins like crazy or grates gearing or does nothing at all. So I guess that's got to come out to be inspected.

A small bit of good news is that the engine runs much much better. I don't really know how. I did re- position the carb linkage links, tighten up the choke cable and generally fiddled with the mixture/s.

Of all the stuff that needs sorting I'm worried about the radiator overflowing as this could be a head gasket failure, maybe something as simple as a thermostat swap or a blockage somewhere in the pipes.

It's nice to know that now I can leave all my tools spread around the garage and just lock up and walk off. Normally I'd have half an eye on the weather then spend ages putting stuff away in the storage box and covering the car and fixing all the springy straps.

More after tomorrows episode of head scratching.