25. Windscreen and Wipers

So After a 7 month wait I finally received my windscreen from Brasscraft....yes 7 months!  He forgot...even after me chasing....oh well I didn't want to work on it in the nice sunny weather anyway! Now its cold again it will be nice to freeze my arse off in the garage once more!


So on with the calibrated piece of wood....and up the screen goes....I had to file out the Escutcheon plates somewhat to get to to fit due to the angle of the screen.























Bolted the windscreen into the chassis beam things and all done....Drilled and tapped right through both and then drilled out the tap in the screen support so just thread left in the chassis.

I then mounted the wipers...forgetting completely that this is detailed in the build manual I went of
mounting it all and cutting the holes with no reference to it...ahh well I'm sure it will be fine.  I used the tape to mark the wiper arcs to ensure they covered the screen well enough.  Its a real pain assembling the motor with the gearing on the long flexi shaft and trying to hold it all in place to get ti fitted...

Then all the wire mechs were mounted and drilled through the body. The wiper mech and the gears etc are fiddly to fit due the the mounting location - a few choice words were said on numerous occasions.

When mounted I switched on the windscreen wipers and realised that they went from the bottom of the screen down the bonnet and back up again!!!!

WTF!

I left the garage at this point as something would have got broken.

After calming down and deciding not to sell the car I realised that it was just the park switch was in the wrong position - so i removed the motor gear and placed the park switch thingy in the opposite side of the main gear - Hey presto it all works!

This is the second issue I had with the park switch - initially I couldn't get the wiper motor to stop even time i turned turned the IGN on- this I realised (after speaking to Jon at AK) was because I didn't have the gear in the motor and thus it was constantly seeking the park position thus never stopping....That confused me for a while I can tell you.

Also while i was at it i mounted the mirrors - look quite nice so was happy with that.  One thing I didn't think to check was with the door open - JUST made it with literally half a mm spare...the mirror does rotate a bit so all good! phew!