After a bit of cleaning up and general double-checking and tidying of things it was time to start the final fit of the dashboard - including fitting the remaining four mechanical gauges:
The oil pressure line was simple to connect up, the fuel pressure line was a bit more of a faff. The line on the gauge side of the isolator needed to be filled with oil. This was done by removing the piston and using the body of the isolator as a funnel. Oil was poured in until it appeared at the gauge end of the line and the gauge was connected up:
Both gauges were then fixed to the dashboard:
Next up was the two mechanical temperature gauges. These were carefully fed through the dashboard:
They were then fed along the engine bay towards the front of the car:
Hmmm ....... that engine needs a bit of a clean and polish!
With the senders roughly in position the dash board was moved a bit closer to its final position:
The Oil temperature sender was fixed in place just leaving the Water temperature sender to do tomorrow:
I also need to come up with a neat way of running the capillary tubes along the inner wing??
2 Comments:
Id be tempted to loose the excess tube behind the dash and then put both tubes into split conduit and run under the existing, might work?
Yup - I think it might.
I have struggled to come up with anything better so far.
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