I really am quite rubbish with filler and paint. Even these pictures flatter it. I'd spent longer on it but I needed to get it done tonight as it's just about warm enough to dry and it's due to rain again tomorrow. Better done than perfect.
I also need to find where to buy a cellulose spray can of Juniper Green paint.
You can see the repair at the bottom of the wing is too wide for the chrome piece to fit nicely. That was the previous person's attempt at a repair. I'll see how bad it looks with the green paint and chrome piece on. It may just have to do and at least it's solid.
Just incase you fancy another Austin 1300 there's a job lot of panels on eBay. Just had an offer of £60 buy it now come through. Not on the beige to show Beep I think it was who had a few also. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385567201787 ... media=COPY
Fixed the blower fan on my P4. Actually was just the rheostat needed cleaning up. Quite easy to diagnose by touching the motor terminal on the power side.
Opened it up and cleaned it with some 400grit sandpaper.
I did contemplate replacing it with a switch. But it actually variates quite satisfactorily. As low speed settings the rheostat does burn off a lot of dust and crud off though.
Hopefully will clean up with use.
As expected, it gets very hot at slow speed settings.
Went to Clevedon sea front today in the P4. First proper journey my wife has been in it (she isn't a big fan of my older cars) and she quite liked it! Probably because I love sports cars and I drive them as such. But this car makes me slow right down and I'm quite happy just pootle along slowly, which she prefers than me revving the nuts off my others.
Also stopped by the local Bluebell woods to have a wander and a photo. Not quite enough out to be the best picture, but it still hasn't come out too bad.
It did make me wonder why I was selling this car. But I desperately need the room with another car on the way and I'm still piecing my Dolomite together with the intention of selling that instead (whichever sells first). But this is last in, so first out.
PhilA wrote:Nice. A bit of dielectric grease may help the rheostat.
Oddly the fan in my Plymouth has one speed but the wipers are on a rheostat...
When I went out the wipers had stopped working. Not a good first impression to Mrs SiC!
On the back of the rheostat is three connections. One for the power, one for blower motor and one for upwards connections. I reconnected the upwards connections to the wrong side...
So I ended up having a variable speed blower with variable speed wipers. And a fair bit of smoke from the rheostat!
Anyway it was easily fixed when in the car park after I realised.
