Locks and stuff

One of the advantages of taking a long year to rebuild the car is that I have been able to purchase stuff over an extended period and spread the costs. Now I am installing the parts bought from a variety of sources and finding what works and what doesn't. Yes indeed there are tossers out there who don't know what they have. Like the git who sold me new grill bolts that are by an order of magnitude the wrong size and the salad tosser that sold me a set of locks with the wrong size keepers. I spent some time filing and grinding the keepers to make them fit and afterwards realized that I still had the old original keepers which I could have simply slipped on. After all that nonsense I decided that although I had a new ignition lock, with the same key as the new door locks, it was going to be way to painful to fit it. Then I had an epiphany and read the service manual. It seems like you turn the key to the accessory position and push in a release catch and the lock falls apart, how easy is that. Similarly none of the dash lights work, but on reading the manual I discovered that the light switch is also a dimmer control and it is very usual for the rheostat to become corroded and go open circuit if not used for 20 years or so. I was going to short out the rheostat and leave the dash lights on full but I also discovered that the dimmer control also houses a switch that turns on the dome lights so I am going to have to fix it. Hopefully a liberal soak in WD40 will be the solution. Keep reading!

I also noticed from my tracking device, that many of you have installed a routine that tells you when this blog has a new entry. So I thought that I would slip in a random but trivial entry just to bump my stats. Have a nice day.