Pissed about today and didn't get much done.
First the bonnet lock wouldn't take the key. The bonnet is bollocksed anyway, both hinge holes are fucked, so I thought I'd fire some Liquid Spanner that I found in the shed.
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The previous owner obviously had a bonnet rattle to cure and had some hosepipe handy
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Then took a look at what adaptor I'd need for the wiper blade and check how long it is. 14" / bayonet.
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Cleaned out the battery recess. Now these cars have tiny batteries. Supposedly a 104 which nobody does anymore. A good contender is a Jizz battery (054), bar the fact the terminals need to be at opposite ends (055) and that they are tiny JIS ones, so I dug out my fucked Halfords version of a 054 to have a look. It wasn't going in. I got a Lidl Dremel type thing out and shaved the plastic ridges off the ends at the bottom.
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That doesn't look right. It needed further investigating. On paper, the 054 is nominally 187mm long, but the base of it is as good as 180mm. But having got a tape down in there a couple of things become apparent. The tray is sort of 180 x 140. It tapers in towards the bottom. Also that fucking tray isn't a proper rectangle either. FFS.
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Shoved some card down there to check
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So not only does the tray taper from top to bottom, it also isn't rectangular and tapers a few mm in towards the engine. Great.
It really needs to sit in right down on the GRP ledge as those Jap batteries are 227mm tall and I can just about squeeze it in under the bonnet, but not if it's sitting on a riser. Having studied the batteries from various suppliers in the size range, I came to the conclusion that Yuasa do something usefully smoller. Doesn't matter that the terminals are the wrong ends as it's not like I'm going to short the battery off the bodywork.
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I could nick the Odyssey PC680 AGM battery out of the RT and stick that in. It's a good bit smaller but more than twice the price.
I took the 063 out of the 306 (the 027 battery that actually belongs to it is a bit fucked) and hooked it up to see what wasn't working.
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Well both headlamps dip and main work, as does the wiper motor. The oil pressure warning light works as does the main beam warning light. They are all unfused. Nothing else does, which probably means I've got a wire hanging off the back of the ignition switch and/or the fuse box wants cleaning up. A number of switches are hanging out of the dash. Can't remember why as I think everything was working when I parked it up.