Well, I had to take a couple of months off from Fiat playtime to focus on a couple of work related projects, but finally got some time back in the garage this past week. I refurbished the headlight motors and picked up a nice used wiper motor that I got from MWB as mine had gotten a lot of rust inside. I installed the wiper mechanism and finished off the frunk area.
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I finished off the wiring harness and then hooked up all of the dashboard switches and lights to test and trouble shoot it. Happily, it mostly was all working. There were only a couple of glitches that I quickly tracked down. One was that the wiring diagrams for the '85 on Bertones had mislabeled the connection colors to the fuel level sending unit. The other was one of the pigtails for the lights to the vent control levers had the wires reversed. I had never disconnected that from the original harness so hadn't noticed that. Just took me a while to notice it. Here are some pictures. The first few are getting the various subharnesses tied together and hooked to the back of the fuse panel, then getting it back in the tray (lots of fun that). I added an additional fuse bar for my fuses for the power to the right and left headlight relays, radio, and fog lamps. I ran a large gauge power cable from the battery to the main terminal of that bar and then connected the brown wire to the ignition switch and the red wire to the fuse panel to that post for my version of the brown wire mod. I used the original left side 6 relay block that had been used for several air conditioning relays and dropped it to 5 relays. One is for the fog lamps, two are for my aftermarket AC system, and two are for the wiper relay mod. All of the dash and switch lights (except for the instrument panel warning lights) are LEDs as well as all of the external lights except the headlights.
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I'm there!! I'll take sunny Cal any day. Can't wait to hear what you are up to now.Mate! Looking purrrty
I may have to buy you a airplane ticket to come out and help me with my the new project and get all the wiring sorted. Keep it up!
Yeah, I worry about that but my goal was not to end up with a garage queen. I guess in a way it is good that these cars never seem to appreciate so it's not like I will end up with a valuable museum piece. I plan to drive it a lot as long as it is a dry day.Looking good Rodger
I think when your done you should not dive this car it may get dirty
Great work keep it up
Sure why not. Between you, Rodger and I, we can build a badass k-series x19Hey Tim if your buying plane tickets I will take aswell
Yeah, I worry about that but my goal was not to end up with a garage queen. I guess in a way it is good that these cars never seem to appreciate so it's not like I will end up with a valuable museum piece. I plan to drive it a lot as long as it is a dry day.
Thanks! Every used part has been cleaned and powder coated or painted as appropriate. Based on prior posts by Bernice and others regarding fastener and lock washer fatigue, I replaced all of the smaller more common bolts with new, but did reuse the larger, more unique ones. All of those bolts as well as any non-painted metal parts were all yellow zinc plated. I am using all new nuts, that are mostly all flanged. All of the new bolts are also flanged. When I restored the Honda engine, I found that Honda did not use any washers, locking or otherwise, pretty much anywhere on that engine, just flanged bolts and nuts. As I am reassembling the Fiat, I have eliminated mostly all of the washers, except areas that that need a fender washer to spread out the loads or to minimize damage to painted surfaces.WOW!
Every little nut and bolt looks (or is?) brand new on your car.
I don't know if I have seen another build with this attention to detail.
Especially lately. My wife is bitching constantly about the rain (again).So 4 times a year here in Washington... Beautiful work.