body off and on again

We took the body off this morning, and tidied up the wiring loom where several parts of it join in front of the pedal box. There is no nice way to arrange the wiring so it lies neatly so just did what we could with convoluted tubing and cable ties. After carrying out various wiring loom jobs we wanted to test the loom before putting the body on, in particular wanted to check that the positive battery cable didn't short to earth. The thinking was that if we were going to debug the loom then we'd be better to do that before the body was fixed in place.

We didn't connect the Engine Management Unit as the connectivity tester was 9V and might damage it.

Anyway it seemed to show a short - ho hum! Several phone calls to Father/Grandfather Bob later combined with some selective disconnecting of loom bits and using a multimeter allowed us to conclude that all we were seeing was some connections via diodes in the alternator i.e. it wasn't really a problem.

Thanks to Bob (and by the way we have now changed the AA cells in the multimeter, found a note in the box telling Tim to change once a year - note dated 1999 - so only six years too late!)

Whilst we had the body off we also 'dremmelled' away a bit of the body to allow a better dit onto the chassis at one point where we had noted it fouling on a prominent weld - this seems to have worked and on refitting the bootbox sits rather better.

Chrissy tidied up the exhaust hole in the body with wet and dry, and we tightened up the fuel tank and did a few other jobs before putting the body and exhaust back on. It doesn't sound very much but we probably spent a total of 6 man/woman hours on it today.