The Temptress

morning lieblings ,

Well in the chase for the holy grail that is a charging alternator , progress has been made .

firstly , here is the ford smart charge alternator , so anyone rushing away from the scrappy , sniggering in glee at their lucky find , can see they got a duffer ,and take it back without spending a day making mounting brackets ..







it can just Smart OFF !



here is is hiding its awful secret ..





just before i tried to use it .



However , after that palava , i had a second look at the huge old fashioned other jag one i had , and i realised , with a bit of jiggery pokery , i might be able to fit it after all , it would be a few mm forward of ideal but hey...



After more fun with spacers and stuff , i managed to wind on the 10mm too short belt , and fire up the old girl ,lo and behold ..






a little blip got me this ..





and i let it settle to tickover ...







and still had goodness...







my base battery voltage with no alternator was 12.2v running .so all good .



just waiting for yet another 10mm longer belt to arrive so i am not putting 17,000 tons pressure on the old water pump spindle .




while i waited for my belt of rubber (but not in a conservative politician sort of way) i had a tinker with the front lights .

the roll call went thus,


o/s

headlight ,dip working , main not .
indicator not .
fog light ,working.

n/s
headlight.. nothing .
fog light ..nothing.
indicator ..nothing.


i set too on the n/s indicator , and found it was rusted up and the spring was jammed down , oh ,and it had a twin element staggered pins stop tail lamp bulb in where a normal single element bulb should be ..noice .


i took it apart by levering open the back , and lubed it up , and popped in a new bulb ,and voila ..







oh also cleaned the lens , and i like the colour ..





pullled off the headlight ,and found the thing looked like it had been submerged , for decades , and the adjuster on one side had been snapped off , more sanding and lubing ,and the pre focus bulb worked again ..












did the same on the rest of the lights , and all now working apart from the headlight on the o/s which has a dip element broken , so i need a new bpf 414 bulb .... oh ,and yes the other indicator had a wrong bulb too..





but now its full to the brim with yummy correct bulb goodness .





regards
robert

Not just you - I can't see them either 

...and me ...

I can see them fine?

So can I , now ...

The 1951 Armstrong-Siddely wiring diagram for this (Lucas) shows no provision for flashing indicator lights, only side lights and dip/main beam lamps.

If they were retrofit then up to '65 they can be white/white and the turn signal integrated with the parking light. This may be the case if it originally had trafficator arms.

yup , the ssl thing was out of date on the pics site ,all fixed now ..thanks to veronica .


it has winkers , the mk2 did away with the little traficator dalek arms .

side lights are on top of the wings , i am not decided whether i will re install or smooth off the wings .

indicators deffo single element bulbs .

What? No canbus?

hello chaps,


well a lot of non temptress stuff going on , but i did manage to get down the scrappy , and hoicked a bit off the car ..





can you tell whats missing ?

yup , i snarffleld the entire two section prop ,and centre mount , this means i can make up bits for the 2nd gearbox fitment , without having to immobilise the car .


I also got the n/s rear door lock , i hope to adapt that to the drivers door .


Also , i found the remains of the boot badge , and brought it home,





i had a slight problem trying to work out where the loose letters fitted in this piccy..





then i realised my mistake ,the badge was really this one ..





ppppft.



and then ,a nice bloke on the fb AS page offered me a boot lid , but it was as rusty as mine , and would you believe it had a badge on it ..







and he's only going to send it to me !



very kind indeed.



in other news i had a go at polishing my big lights ,

before ..





after ...






lashed out 15 quid on 60w halogen bpf bulbs too .



And,speaking of which , whoever decided to use a push bike switch for the dip main needs exsanguinating !(sp)



dinky little thing ...






was more likely to put both on at once .Luckily i had a rover 100 black stonko switch , so wired that in , and ,after a lot of trial and error i now have fogs and dip and main h/lights all working , as well as tail lights and brake lights .


bit stuck on the indicators , and may well update them to an extra yellow light at the back nd wire them normally .

Having got the front lights working i could put the rad and fan back in ,so all start up able again .





tinckety tonk



regards
robert