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I havent posted in a couple of years as I havent worked on the 61 TR3a in a couple of years. Due to some good naturd pressure from a good friend I have gotten back to work on it. In the last 4 days I have completed the electrical system and chased all of the bugs out. All lights and accessories are working! The one electrical glitch remaining is the overdrive relay. The car had not had overdrive in its past life, this is a transplant. When I flip the switch, the relay gives off a buzzing sound. I did test the solenoid before putting the tranny cover on and it did work, apply power, solenoid throws, remove power, solenoid retracts. Other than double checking that the wires are on the correct terminals on the relay I have not done any other troubleshooting. It is a new Lucas relay. (Maybe thats the problem!) I did go through 2 new Lucas turn signal flashers both of which are faulty. I dug a generic flasher out of the drawer to test and it works like a charm.
Second question is easier. Starting the carpet/ interior installation. The dogleg panels that screw over the wheel arches come down and stop about 3 inches from the floor. The floor carpet does not go up the sides, so there is a section of green paint showing fromthe back of the door opening to the rear bulkhead, about 3" up from the floor. Should a small section of carpet get tucked in behind the dogleg trim, and down under the floor carpet? This seems like the cleanest treatment. Or, is it just left bare, figuring when the seat is in you wont really see it anyway.
Another question regards the drivers side footwell. The car had a plywood panel with black vinyl stretched over it and swrewed into the foot well. It was notched around the dimmer switch box. The carpet kit comes with pieces of carpet for the same space. I know the carpet is the correct material, but how do you deal with the recess that the dimmer switch sits in? Does the carpet follow that contour, with the dimmer box screwed over the carpet? Or does the carpet mount to a piece of plywood and get notched around the dimmer box?
Lastly, seatbelt mounting location? I am thinking of bolting the anchors to the bottom of the rear bulkhead near the floor.
After over 20 years working on this old beast its starting to actually look like a car again!
Mechanically it is all done.
Thanks
Tim
I havent posted in a couple of years as I havent worked on the 61 TR3a in a couple of years. Due to some good naturd pressure from a good friend I have gotten back to work on it. In the last 4 days I have completed the electrical system and chased all of the bugs out. All lights and accessories are working! The one electrical glitch remaining is the overdrive relay. The car had not had overdrive in its past life, this is a transplant. When I flip the switch, the relay gives off a buzzing sound. I did test the solenoid before putting the tranny cover on and it did work, apply power, solenoid throws, remove power, solenoid retracts. Other than double checking that the wires are on the correct terminals on the relay I have not done any other troubleshooting. It is a new Lucas relay. (Maybe thats the problem!) I did go through 2 new Lucas turn signal flashers both of which are faulty. I dug a generic flasher out of the drawer to test and it works like a charm.
Second question is easier. Starting the carpet/ interior installation. The dogleg panels that screw over the wheel arches come down and stop about 3 inches from the floor. The floor carpet does not go up the sides, so there is a section of green paint showing fromthe back of the door opening to the rear bulkhead, about 3" up from the floor. Should a small section of carpet get tucked in behind the dogleg trim, and down under the floor carpet? This seems like the cleanest treatment. Or, is it just left bare, figuring when the seat is in you wont really see it anyway.
Another question regards the drivers side footwell. The car had a plywood panel with black vinyl stretched over it and swrewed into the foot well. It was notched around the dimmer switch box. The carpet kit comes with pieces of carpet for the same space. I know the carpet is the correct material, but how do you deal with the recess that the dimmer switch sits in? Does the carpet follow that contour, with the dimmer box screwed over the carpet? Or does the carpet mount to a piece of plywood and get notched around the dimmer box?
Lastly, seatbelt mounting location? I am thinking of bolting the anchors to the bottom of the rear bulkhead near the floor.
After over 20 years working on this old beast its starting to actually look like a car again!
Mechanically it is all done.
Thanks
Tim