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East Windsor, NJ, USA
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Thanksgiving has come and gone and I was able to make a little progress, of course not as much as I'd hoped.
I met a member on this board who was selling some items and found he lived only 15 minutes away from my house so it was a nice surprise and chat.
My accomplishments were few but needed to be done. I removed the brake, hazard and fan switches from the dash and worked on cleaning it up. It looks better than it did, (at least it is clean) but I have some major cracks. It should be serviceable until I can either track down one in better condition at a reasonable price or spend the time to do the service on it.
In the mean time I installed my new to me charcoal canister, cutoff valve and oil sensor unit and sorted out some wiring.
The car came with out a distributor so I'm installing a 25D from a 1972 mg, this means that the wiring needs to be adapted a bit as it will not accept the plug from the wiring harness. After doing some research I've decided to follow the information in one of Jeff S. old post. I'm going to use a 3. ohm coil and run a new line directly from the fuse box to the coil +. On the negative side I'll use the existing dual white/ black wire to go to the tach and the distributor. As I understand it this will eliminate the need for the resistor and should be nice and clean.
I have a big pre-Christmas order coming from Moss and once that arrives I think things will come together a bit quicker.
I met a member on this board who was selling some items and found he lived only 15 minutes away from my house so it was a nice surprise and chat.
My accomplishments were few but needed to be done. I removed the brake, hazard and fan switches from the dash and worked on cleaning it up. It looks better than it did, (at least it is clean) but I have some major cracks. It should be serviceable until I can either track down one in better condition at a reasonable price or spend the time to do the service on it.
In the mean time I installed my new to me charcoal canister, cutoff valve and oil sensor unit and sorted out some wiring.
The car came with out a distributor so I'm installing a 25D from a 1972 mg, this means that the wiring needs to be adapted a bit as it will not accept the plug from the wiring harness. After doing some research I've decided to follow the information in one of Jeff S. old post. I'm going to use a 3. ohm coil and run a new line directly from the fuse box to the coil +. On the negative side I'll use the existing dual white/ black wire to go to the tach and the distributor. As I understand it this will eliminate the need for the resistor and should be nice and clean.
I have a big pre-Christmas order coming from Moss and once that arrives I think things will come together a bit quicker.
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