Fiddling about

Things look to be moving slowly right now but what with the summer heat it is getting to be really rare to find a suitable day on the weekend where the weather is good AND I don't have something else to do that does not involve either the kids, the wife or shooting.

But enough excuses.

Last Saturday I buckled down and cut out a cover plate for the rear end of the selector tunnel. Normally the T-9 box has a metal cap or dust cover that blocks the oval end of the gear selectors. My box had no such part, the previous owner electing to use copious amounts of silicon sealer instead.

I did not have any ally plate I could use so I improvised with an old breadboard made of polyethylene. It was pretty thin and easy to cut. Simple enough to do and I sealed the edges with RTV silicone.
 

 

 

Being very happy with that my next move was to sort out the EMS wiring routing. The Alphamax system seems to have way too long leads terminated by extremely rare and spendy looking connectors, so I took the coward's way out and looped up the excess lead, bound those with lots of cable ties and hid them under the heater box. Of course there will be no heater.

 

Other leads were fastened in place with cable clips and Rivnuts

 

Now I must sort out transport to the wiring specialists.