rambo19

I use parraifn as well.

I'm a london bus driver. I walked into my local halfords and told them I was re training to be a mechanic and the lads at work had reccommended them. 5 mins later, trade card in my pocket!

Halfords for me to! My dad, a confirmed britool user, even rates the halfords stuff!

Ive had the same thing with black paint looking grey in the tin. Ive found that once it's applied and dry it turns black.

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f41/handbrake-shoes-renewal-98882.html good guide here.

Quick update on my crimping style. I am not a trained mechanic, 90% of what I know has been taught to me by my dad, who is a retired mechanic, when he did his apprenticeship he had to take apart starters/engines/dynamo's and fix them, no recon units in them days. He is very old fashioned, and when I told him I was fitting a cd player in my 110 his response was "what do you want one of them new fangled things for, in my day we had 8 tracks!!". Anyway, i'm not bad at mechanic's and electrics, as long as I take my time, I do have a natural talent for painting/bodywork, and have painted all mates landies for them. Back on track-crimping terminals; I have been useing a rachet type crimper, with good results, however, after seeing the excellent wireing posted on this thread I went into my shed and dug out my old manual crimping pliers. Wow!, ive managed to do good strong crimps that look very neat. I'm well pleased

I ran the existing wires to the console, But, whilst I had the dash out I checked all the old wires and removed all the old bodge's from previous owners! I also put in line fuses on all my lives.

Mines a civvie spec.

That is a pukka bit of wireing!! How did you connect terminals?, when I crimp mine the whole terminal gets crimped, yet yours looks un crimped.

When I moved the hazard switch I just extended the wires, easy to do, just take your time and mark them. I must say I am well impressed with the console, a very sturdy bit of kit. I spoke to the chap from raptor, a realy friendly and helpful chap, 10/10!!

Ive just done mine to; I also fitted LED courtesy lights for when I open the drivers door; This pic taken of a night with no flash And this pick with doors open and lights on; and this is where I mounted them;

Ive just done mine, so heres some pointers for you; Don't bother flushing the old matrix, get a new one. I flushed my old one, ran clear as a whistle so I re fitted it=rubbish. Whilst your heater box is off, clean and repaint the heater box and the bulkhead and inner wing. For your seals you can use a camping mat. Make sure you have some evo stick.

NATO green, satin finish, I find that if you use NATO green matt finish it marks easy, so I always use satin finish. Just to add, none of the above were primed!!

No laquer, deep bronze green gloss finish from local car paint supplier.

I live in billericay so will keep an eye out for it.