Hacking Away

Various bits of progress and set backs over the weekend, we turned the holes cut for the roll-bar in the boot box into slots, with the intention of allowing the boot box to slide in and out without having to take the roll-bar off. ...but as you can see with the standard roll-bar (as opposed to the RAC one) this little wheeze didn't work so well -

So after scratching our heads a little we were faced with three options - go back to plan A and have to remove roll bar every time boot box has to come out (it's only two bolts but they are fearsomely difficult to get at and have to be torque tightened) plan B make the slots longer (not nice because the rear of the slots were a circle cut out and maintaining the shape while taking 10mm off is not easy) or Plan C hack off about 1cm from the rear lip of the bodywork that holds the boot box up.

No options very nice but we wen't for plan C which seemed to work ok.

We also found the mystery leak at the rear of the engine compartment - it is from a bung in the water system - needless to say it's hard to get at - that is leaking and dripping on the top of the gearbox and then running in various directions. Think we may have to wait until water system emptied before we can fix.

Failed to fix fog light despite an hour or two of trying to debug it. I wish we had a proper wiring diagram.