Bob Nogueira wrote:
>Regarding the Lucas Issue, the use of Motorcraft (yes Will, a Ford
product)
>Dielectric Compound (grease) on all connections, bulbs and fuses has
>prevented corrosion and the resulting blackouts.
To continue this thought for a second. As anyone come up with a good way to
Clean old dirty contacts before applying the dielectric compound. I've
tried using
Sandpaper on Popsicle sticks, screwdrivers, and knifes. The sandpaper works
Best but ONLY if you have access to the connector - like a grounding eyelet.
I haven't found anything for cleaning the female spade clips.
For those that aren't initiated into the problems of an old wiring harness,
the
Solution seems very easy, cut the old connector off, and simply solder a new
One on. The problem with this, is that if the connector is tarnished, you
can bet
The wire is also. This tarnish, will NOT let solder adhere to the wire. So
you have
to cut a little more wire off looking for a clean spot. I've cut over 3
feet back on a
wire looking for clean wire that I could solder to with on luck.
Oh, the joys of playing with old cars.
John
John T. Blair
jblair@scn.spawar.navy.mil
SPAWARSYSCEN Chesapeake
Chesapeake, Va (757) 523-8133
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From: Bob Nogueira [SMTP:nogera@prodigy.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 8:19 PM
To: Jeff Webster; aMORGANS@autox.team.net; Blair John
Subject: Re:Sill covers & Lucas
-- [ From: Bob Nogueira * EMC.Ver #3.1a ] --
To add to Johns post here, I used auto carpet padding ( Jute) and
built up
one layer at time to fit over the sill plate, the last layer runs
from the
door sill to the floor. All of the layers being held together with
spray
contact cement. Makes a nice one piece unit which is not attached
to the
sill and is held only by the cover.
For the cover I tacked under the door sill plate and used snaps on
the floor
with velcro on the ends. This works really well as the velcro allows
me to
keep the cover tight and the snaps allow for a quick removal of the
padding
after a drive in the rain. All those chassis sills rotted from
contact
with wet horse hair .
Another innovation was to glue the rubber floor mat to a sheet of
aluminum
cut to the same pattern as the mat. It never pulls loose and
bunches up
under my feet and cleaning is accomplished by lifting it out and
taping it
on the ground
Regarding the Lucas Issue, the use of Motorcraft (yes Will, a Ford
product)
Dielectric Compound (grease) on all connections, bulbs and fuses
has
prevented corrosion and the resulting blackouts.
And thanks to everyone for the input regarding the dashboard
finish.
Bob Nogueira
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> Date: Tuesday, 13-Apr-99 05:47 PM
>
> From: Blair John \ Internet: (jblair@exis.net)
> To: Jeff Webster \ Internet: (carfindr@tiac.net)
> To: MORGANS \ Internet:
(morgans@autox.team.net)
>
> Subject: Re: My kingdom for a good refererence book...
>
> At 07:34 AM 4/13/99 -0400, Jeff Webster wrote:
>
> >My kingdom for a good refererence book...
>
> For starters Jeff, between Fred's book and my Morgan web page, you
have
one
> hell-of-a start. Next with this list, you can't ask for much
more.
>
> >If this is the case, how does the trim cover it to achieve that
padded
> >effect?
>
> There is "horse hair" similar to jute glued to the vertical wall
of the
> chassis, and layed over the flat part of the sill plate. Then the
leather
is
> set on top of the horse hair. Starting at the top outer edge (in
the door
way)
> it is tacked down with escrution (sp) pins - small nails.
However,
"todays
> 'mercian technology" is to use a air powered staple gun to tack it
down.
The
> working from the center out continue tacking along the sill plate.
Then
work on
> smoothing it down the vertical wall of the chassis, and tack it to
the
floor
> boards.
>
> I made some comments about this in one of my articles, I was
thinking
about
> trying to make it more eaisly removable from the floor boards so
you could
lift
> the leather to let the horse hair dry out when it gets wet.
Haven't done
> anything about that yet.
>
>
> John
>
>
> John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
> Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
>
> 48 TR1800 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V
> 71 Saab Sonett III 75 Bricklin SV1 77 Spitfire
>
> www.team.net/www/morgan bricklin.shel.olsy-na.com/bi
>
>
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