Under Control

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible?
Alexander Eliot

A few routing issues but nothing too tricky and I can announce that the control cables are fitted! Accelerator, clutch and both handbrake cables have been patiently guided into their respective tubes, pipes, slots and holes.

Pictured above is the Bowden Tube, a flexible sleeve through which the clutch cable is routed. It is designed to be slightly bent to help absorb clutch shudder and pedal feedback. It was pretty gunky with over 40 years' road muck but I cleaned it up and removed the worst of it. It was a really tight fit to get the threaded end of the cable to pass through but after some fiddling and the obligatory four-lettered encouragements we managed to succeed.

The accelerator cable seems to be missing a sleeved section where it runs beneath the fuel tank. I can't remember this part but it surely must have existed but there is contact now with the actual cable and the fuel pipe/filter assembly. Will look into it and report back.

The handbrake cables required longer sleeved sections to be custom-made. This is because they could no longer be routed through their original paths owing to the new chassis beams that were added.

In order for them to be mounted correctly we had to weld up some new brackets and fit them to the chassis cross-member. This was done without too much fuss and the handbrake cables are now fitted, seated and adjusted!

I managed during the week to also complete the roof over the project and then paint the last two coats on the newly-raised wall. Slowly but steadily we are making progress, and getting it all under cover, and under control!

Once again a great big THANK YOU to my friendly neighbour who has been putting in double shifts of late in order to help me speed up the whole project. Welder, fabricator, electrician, moulder, sander, motivator, general genius. Without his help a lot of this would still be just an idle daydream, much obliged mate.


Thanks for stopping by
CooP