Other than that, I've got all the electric running again again, apart from heated seats and one central locking motor (I have a spare here, but it's getting dark). Most of the electrical problems are what I expected, Fake's been sat on my driveway for 3+ years now, doing nothing (I did 25 miles between buying it 3 years ago, and a fornight ago!) All the switches had oxidised, meaning no indicators, no blower fan, no lights. Then as I had removed all the rear cluster lamp holders, the earths were all shot on those too.
Most of this I fixed a fortnight ago when I got it MOT'd, but I havn't mentioned what was needed to pass it at all, so here we go. Remember, this is for a car thats sat for 3 years doing nothing, and when I got it, had the standard 1.7 non-idling problem, even though it had a replacement weber. This got cured accidentally 6 months ago, when it hadn't started for 18months, and wouldn't start, I thought the carb was playing up, turned out to be a perished fuel line, but having taken the carb apart and cleaned it, solved all the problems!
*New fuel line to fuel pump - Old ones perished
*Carb taken apart, cleaned, put back together
*Interior put back in (as I was storing most of Beast in it, had to find the interior first, spread between loft, garage and shed)
*Rear shocks replaced for Monroes (as I had a set in the loft, and this is a money limitation exercise!)
*Useful electrics fixed (i.e. anything that would fail an MOT)
*New back box
*Good clean to remove all cobwebs, mold, green stuff (yeah, nice)
*Rear brakes un siezed
What I couldn't do
*Needed a tad of welding under the drivers seatbelt area, not the sill though, but I made sure the guy cut out the old bit, and welded in a new bit. Damn good job, and the garage even put up with me standing around, moaning about how they do there job, and did it so I could catch a ferry that afternoon! Thats why I take my cars to them only!
So, since then,
*Got the blower fan working (bodged a resister pack and made the oxidised switch work again)
*Put a stereo in (although it's a tape thingy, it's better than nothing)
*Fitted Hella grill, as I'd forgotton how much I must use them, and was fed up of only seeing about 100 yds in front of me
Still to fix
*Timing Belt - don't know when it was done, but I've never done it
*Thermostat - it's not heating up unless its stuck in traffic
*Heated seats - As I'm not going kitesurfing till they are working, and I want to go kiting
*Central Locking - As I miss it
*Lots more I forget about, until I walk past it and see it again, but never write it down
*Erm, considering I ment to keep it standard, I have a gear shift light and an amb temp gauge sat here, and maybe remote central locking, oh, I just found a set of Volvo rear speakers and a Volvo amp on my shelf, and I'm fed up with manual windows too, so need to nick some mechs, and electric mirrors, as there are some on the island and in my local scrappy, and maybe a GLT splitter... and .. and... bugger
