Finding time

 Finding time has started to become hard again. The start of autumn term with the kids at school and helping at a scout group, not forgetting working on my friends cars that helps fund the mini parts. It's fleeting small stints at best.

But of course work is still happening. After many sidetracks I did manage to do basic wheel alignment using the string method right round the car. But that meant the car was getting off the axel stands for good, yay.

 The drivers track rod end locking nut was ... um, locked to the shaft. The mini not being fitted with shafts that have flats made that unnecessarily taxing, stilsons where borrowed from the neighbour as my mole grips had lost the teeth points doing the other side!

 The bonnet catch lever missing the window in the grill and actually coming out under the next rung was addressed. We'll I removed it and bent it, sorted 😎 

With the car on the ground and rolling, she was rolled out of the garage so I could get round it and .... put the front seats. Due to the prep done well over a year ago when the re spray happened, a fairly straight forward job. Also met a local mini nut who walked by while I was blocking the rear alley, always nice to meet up with a local with the same passion.

I thought the part buying was over, so as pay day had been I treated my self to led bulbs for the dash, simple job. Simple my arse,  just a coupe of thou over sized for the hole. With a 50/50 chance of fitting the bulb the right way, I managed to get them all round the wrong way. Then they fell out of the holders and into the dials when I tried removing them to flip them round,so the dials came apart to retreave them! Got there though, and looking good.

Another evening and very late, I wanted to get to the bottom of the horn not working. Thouhht I had a result, only one wire attached, shame the added earth wire didn't make any difference. Out came the multi meter and its looking like the stalk is at fault, yay buying bits again and now waiting again for parts to arrive!