8 days til we go to the factory

Tim had a very difficult week at work with a lot of late nights so no progress til the weekend.





We picked up a trailer and tow car on Friday night, and some extra tie downs on Saturday night although we probably wont need them.





Tim fiddled about with the wipers and their fittings for much of Saturday, and although not happy with them, we think that we will have a go to see if they work.





We had to fit the wiper motor, and then bend the first of the pipes out of the wiper motor so that it reaches the first of the wiper boxes. Top tip - from Mark at WF - do the bending with the cable inside the pipe it lowers the chance of kinking.





we decided to work out where the motor should go by cutting a piece of coat hanger to the same length as the 'A' pipe and then bending that to give a good position for the motor, of course the only place the motor would go fouled the ECU, so Chrissy moved the ECU mounting position and Tim fitted the wiper motor to the scuttle.








Chrissy has worked on the carpets most of the weekend, as we got the main tunnel carpet back from WF, with the gaiters sewn into it. However it still needed a fiar amount of cutting to fit


around various chassis members.

After working on the carpets, Chrissy reconnected the dashboard here you can see her sitting relaxing having a cuss at the manual.

And here you can see it in the finished but untested state.....

One job that required help from 'er indoors, was to turn the car around, as we will need to mount it forwards on the trailer, and so as it was a lovely spring day, we thought we'd do that now rather than in the inevitable rain next weekend, however as our drive runs upwards and is bounded by walls, we had to push the car up into the road and do a three point turn and then roll it back down into the garage.










Chrissy looking a bit worn out after the weekend's work...

















Our last job was to seal the windscreen, which before we could do we had to strip about 87 layers of prehistoric masking tape off the scuttle and clean the whole thing off. We just put two new strips of tape on to catch the worst of any silicone seal spills.

We also got some ali cleaner and cleaned all of the windscreen surround, as once the screen is sealed there is no getting it out again.

Its in the garage drying now.