header tank on / Dashboard getting closer

We put the header tank on tonight, and spent most of the rest of the itme on the dashboard, which Chrissy worked on while Tim was at work.

Here you can see front and back but we still have a number of questions to find answers to before we have everything connected.


One of the challenges that fellow builders might be interested in is the consequences of using the Smith's white dials rather than the standard VDO black dials.


As mentioned earlier you will already have found that the speedo runs from the front rather than back wheels --which will later lead you to interesting conversations at the SVA test centre I understand...Now you discover that there are a few other little jobs to punish you for the vanity of wanting white dials.

First you may discover that there are only 4 dip switches not the 6 the manual mentions on the back of the tacho, Mark says 'just leave them alone' so we will.

But you will also need to swap two of the wires (a and B as shown) on each of the connectors on the loom that feeds the three small dials (oil pressure etc.). The diagram to the left shows the connectors. The spade connectors however need a pin or nail inserted into the little hole shown to allow them to be released