A quick forty five minutes.

Chris had a chance to come up and help me with a couple tasks yesterday. There were two things to do on the agenda: to install the filler strip into the rubber front windshield gasket, and to hook up the tachometer wires.

He brought his homemade filet tool and started putting the strip in before I could even get the camera. But I did manage to get a picture of him finishing up the last three inches.

 

With the proper tool, it only took him about seven minutes to install the insert! This picture was taken after he left. Notice that I also installed the windshield wipers. Just putting the windshield in takes Old Biddy from being just a project, to being an actual car!!!

 

When I was installing the connecting wires for the tachometer, I read the instructions about ten times and still could not understand them! John even read them a few times before he became frustrated, too. Since Chris has done many of these, it took him just moments. I had one wire hooked up correctly (the one that hooked up to the coil), the other wire was obviously wrong. To make it right, he stripped the male connector off the “wrong” wire and put on a female connector in its place, then properly hooked it up to the fuse box (instead of where I thought it was supposed to hook up via the directions).

 

And, there you go! Old Biddy has a working tachometer!

 

Chris will be coming back next week to install the filler insert to the rear windshield gasket. I have to swap the gasket that is on now. Find out that story in the next post.

 

Besides installing the filler strip, he will also help to adjust the handbrake cables so they operate evenly, adjust the choke cable, and maybe even help with the wiring to get the horns working. A quick forty five minute visit takes this restoration a HUGE step forward!!

Thanks for visiting.

Toddy