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HALLALUJIAH!!! FINALLY....
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tony barnhill
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Re: ...IT's HOME!!!
Ah, mounts...they're just loosely installed...had to install both front shocks because of the routing of the front brake lines.
So, what I'm calling the motor mounts are really the brackets that are bolted to the body to which the rubber motor mounts attach.
Ah, mounts...they're just loosely installed...had to install both front shocks because of the routing of the front brake lines.
So, what I'm calling the motor mounts are really the brackets that are bolted to the body to which the rubber motor mounts attach.
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Heck, now I know through which holes in the firewall things are really supposed to go!
When I've got everything figured out, Jack, when...jlaird said:
Heck, now I know through which holes in the firewall things are really supposed to go!
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Hallelujiah...I Shouldn't, but...
...okay! Here's 1 photo....its not finished yet....just a tease.
...&, yes, I already know about every missing nut, bolt & washer; every spacer, grommet, clip, part - whatever, I already know about them...I'm just waiting for UPS to drop them off.
{Oh, sorry the photo's so small - it won't let anything larger show in the post...larger version below the one that pops up - just click on the link.
...okay! Here's 1 photo....its not finished yet....just a tease.
...&, yes, I already know about every missing nut, bolt & washer; every spacer, grommet, clip, part - whatever, I already know about them...I'm just waiting for UPS to drop them off.
{Oh, sorry the photo's so small - it won't let anything larger show in the post...larger version below the one that pops up - just click on the link.
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Re: Hallelujiah...I Shouldn't, but...
Working under the dash right now installing the windshield wipers through the cowl...pain even with the dash out!
Working under the dash right now installing the windshield wipers through the cowl...pain even with the dash out!
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Don't put the spindle boxes on upside down or the wipers will park in the up position. (Although I guess it is adjustable with the wiper gear dome?)
Don't put the spindle boxes on upside down or the wipers will park in the up position. (Although I guess it is adjustable with the wiper gear dome?)
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #CC0000"> <span style="font-size: 14pt"> <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">THE WHOLE</span> <span style="color: #33CC00"> [censored] </span><span style="color: #CC0000">WORLD IS CONSPIRING AGAINST ME!!</span>
MY NEW WIRING HARNESS IS THE WRONG DAMNED WIRING HARNESS!! </span> </span></span>
Its not Moss' fault; its not Moss UK's fault!
The factory apparently just put the wrong harness in the bag marked for a MkI Midget....& the only other one on the shelf in the warehouse is just like mine - <span style="font-weight: bold">WRONG!</span>
&, way back when, when I had talked with British Wiring about a harness for a MkI Midget he said it would be 6 weeks to get built.
Now we've gotta wait until the Moss technical guy can email the factory in England & the factory emails him back to see what's what! & then we have to get the correct harness to me!
That'll be days from now before we figure out what happened & weeks before I get a harness! How many ways can you spell <span style="font-size: 14pt"> <span style="color: #FFcc33"> <span style="font-weight: bold">SCREWED?</span></span> </span>
It's nobody's fault, I'm not angry with Moss. They'll solve it as quickly as possible considering there's time changes, different continents, & different companies involved - it appears it's just a mistake in the factory when they were packaging harnesses...& there's no way anybody along the way from the factory to me would find it without opening the package & searching the harness with a wiring diagram (& even the tech guy in California had to ask me questions as he looked at his harness & compared it to the wiring diagram because I have it laid out in the car & could direct him to physical locations of particular wires - & I never noticed it until hooking things up!).
After we did some research - the Moss tech guy found the factory parts number - its pretty apparent what happened. The factory tag contains the correct Moss parts number, the Moss order number & an incorrect factory parts number. The guy in the factory has no clue what the Moss number means; he just knows what his factory number is so he loaded what was the correct harness to him in the correct bag, to him! Apparently, nobody At Moss UK checks factory numbers against Moss numbers when parts are received. So, Moss UK received it verifying it was the part they had ordered & shipped it to Moss; Moss received it verifying it was the part they'd ordered; I received it verifying it was the part I'd ordered....all of us relying on the Moss number & none of us having the factory parts number handy to compare to the Moss number!
The tech guy at Moss is being real helpful as Moss always is...its just one of those things that happens from time-to-time...it just got me this time!
The harness I ordered was for my MkI Midget with a pull starter & mechanical fuel pump.....the harness in the bag (which is marked for my car) is for a car with a starter solenoid & electric fuel pump! <span style="color: #FF0000"> <span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">ARGGG!</span> </span> </span> Which means the wiring for the ignition switch is also wrong!
I only found out when I got under the cowl to start identifying wires for instruments & running wires through the firewall to the battery...there should be a single brown wire that screws to the top of the negative battery cable coming out of the harness. Instead there's a brown wire with a spade connector & a white/red wire with a spade connector bundled together for a starter solenoid. That caused the folks at Moss & me to start running all the other underdash wires, them with the only other MkI harness in the factory, me with mine - both of us looking at the factory wiring diagrams.
Guess I'll start working on the front suspension tomorrow as I can't do anything else with the wiring. <span style="font-size: 14pt"> <span style="color: #000099"><span style="font-weight: bold">ARGGHH!!</span> </span> </span>
Talk about depressed....I just threw the car cover over it & walked away for the day......<span style="font-weight: bold"> <span style="font-size: 14pt"> <span style="color: #CC0000"> [censored]!!!</span> </span></span>
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #CC0000"> <span style="font-size: 14pt"> <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">THE WHOLE</span> <span style="color: #33CC00"> [censored] </span><span style="color: #CC0000">WORLD IS CONSPIRING AGAINST ME!!</span>
MY NEW WIRING HARNESS IS THE WRONG DAMNED WIRING HARNESS!! </span> </span></span>
Its not Moss' fault; its not Moss UK's fault!
The factory apparently just put the wrong harness in the bag marked for a MkI Midget....& the only other one on the shelf in the warehouse is just like mine - <span style="font-weight: bold">WRONG!</span>
&, way back when, when I had talked with British Wiring about a harness for a MkI Midget he said it would be 6 weeks to get built.
Now we've gotta wait until the Moss technical guy can email the factory in England & the factory emails him back to see what's what! & then we have to get the correct harness to me!
That'll be days from now before we figure out what happened & weeks before I get a harness! How many ways can you spell <span style="font-size: 14pt"> <span style="color: #FFcc33"> <span style="font-weight: bold">SCREWED?</span></span> </span>
It's nobody's fault, I'm not angry with Moss. They'll solve it as quickly as possible considering there's time changes, different continents, & different companies involved - it appears it's just a mistake in the factory when they were packaging harnesses...& there's no way anybody along the way from the factory to me would find it without opening the package & searching the harness with a wiring diagram (& even the tech guy in California had to ask me questions as he looked at his harness & compared it to the wiring diagram because I have it laid out in the car & could direct him to physical locations of particular wires - & I never noticed it until hooking things up!).
After we did some research - the Moss tech guy found the factory parts number - its pretty apparent what happened. The factory tag contains the correct Moss parts number, the Moss order number & an incorrect factory parts number. The guy in the factory has no clue what the Moss number means; he just knows what his factory number is so he loaded what was the correct harness to him in the correct bag, to him! Apparently, nobody At Moss UK checks factory numbers against Moss numbers when parts are received. So, Moss UK received it verifying it was the part they had ordered & shipped it to Moss; Moss received it verifying it was the part they'd ordered; I received it verifying it was the part I'd ordered....all of us relying on the Moss number & none of us having the factory parts number handy to compare to the Moss number!
The tech guy at Moss is being real helpful as Moss always is...its just one of those things that happens from time-to-time...it just got me this time!
The harness I ordered was for my MkI Midget with a pull starter & mechanical fuel pump.....the harness in the bag (which is marked for my car) is for a car with a starter solenoid & electric fuel pump! <span style="color: #FF0000"> <span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">ARGGG!</span> </span> </span> Which means the wiring for the ignition switch is also wrong!
I only found out when I got under the cowl to start identifying wires for instruments & running wires through the firewall to the battery...there should be a single brown wire that screws to the top of the negative battery cable coming out of the harness. Instead there's a brown wire with a spade connector & a white/red wire with a spade connector bundled together for a starter solenoid. That caused the folks at Moss & me to start running all the other underdash wires, them with the only other MkI harness in the factory, me with mine - both of us looking at the factory wiring diagrams.
Guess I'll start working on the front suspension tomorrow as I can't do anything else with the wiring. <span style="font-size: 14pt"> <span style="color: #000099"><span style="font-weight: bold">ARGGHH!!</span> </span> </span>
Yep, Trevor, I've finally got them in right-side up...took a couple of times of assembling, applying power to the motor & trying to watch where they stopped without a windshield or wiper arms installed, disassembling & flipping the spindle boxes & applying power & watching to see where they stop. That's what I meant when I said it was a pain in the butt to assemble the wiper system after totally disassembling it to clean/rebuild!Trevor Jesie said:
Talk about depressed....I just threw the car cover over it & walked away for the day......<span style="font-weight: bold"> <span style="font-size: 14pt"> <span style="color: #CC0000"> [censored]!!!</span> </span></span>
Trevor Jessie
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Tony, did you check with AHSpares to see if they you can get harness any quicker?
Tony, did you check with AHSpares to see if they you can get harness any quicker?
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Monday I start looking at my options - tech guy at Moss agrees I need to do that as a backup.Trevor Jessie said:
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I now have a front suspension & a front anti-sway bar under the little car! YEE-HAA!!
I now have a front suspension & a front anti-sway bar under the little car! YEE-HAA!!
