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[TheArf]

Mrs ayjay isn't reading this then. Don't know if you are brave or loopy

Arfon

[rpjg1975]

I thought someone had been taking extra brave pills!

Russ

[Stot]

Thanks to anyone that was offering the use of front wings but I know Ill need to drill and or glue them so I was hoping for an offer of a lend of some front wings and stays complete.

Instead I am taking a slightly different route and bought one of these for £16.50 delivered



With a view to cutting it in half to make the front cycle wings. I have a 2m length of 20x20 left over so I can weld some stays up out of that.

May even look half descent polished up!

Cheers
Stot

[ayjay]

What is it?

[Stot]

Oh yeah. 4x4 stainless spare wheel cover.



Cheers
Stot

[K4KEV]

Nice one Stot.....what a cracking idea....its a spare wheel protector yes ! front cycle wings at less than a tenner each effin brill dude, it probably would be possible to mod a set for the back too.

[K4KEV]

ah beat me to it.

[Stot]

Originally Posted by K4KEV

ah beat me to it.

Ha, sorry Kev.

Not sure it will be wide enough to make rear arches, its probably only ~8" wide but as a bonus it does come with trim all the way round it! I may even need to IVA it on the 165 14" Mazda wheels if its only 7.5" wide.

Even new they are ~£60 which for a pair of stainless steel arches still sounds a good deal.

Cheers
Stot

[Stot]

I have been fitting the LEDS to my dash recently. All of them worked well except the brake warning/handbrake light. It wouldn't go out when the handbrake was down, but a bulb would. I figured out it must have been the resistance across the bulb was causing a further drop of power that the LED wasn't creating so I added the bulb in parallel with the LED and the LED then goes of as expected.




I spoke to Skov about putting a resistor in there to create the resistance needed in place of the bulb but it worked out I would need one or two of those ruddy great big rectangular ones like you put in the indicator circuit when using LED bulbs so I covered the bulb with a bolt cover so it doesn't illuminate behind the dash and ill just leave that in there!

While messing around with the dash it turns out that the epoxy I used to hold my 'glass' to the bezels wasn't sticking to either the glass OR the bezels and they all fell apart so I had to come up with another solution.

I decided to try and hot glue them. Started off by keying the edges of the perspex discs and dabbing hot glue around the edges.



I keyed the inside of the bezel a little too and laid them down in position on some grease proof paper on a flat surface.