A slow start to the month, with the car being used daily, as my sole means of transport while, Catherine is at work. One of the small niggles is a slight oil leak from the dipstick hole, so a quick purchase on Ebay, gives me a new dipstick with two rubber rings to seal it a little better.
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Since the trip to Stoneleigh back in May, I have been running without the front mesh fitted to the bonnet. On the trip down, it started to come loose, so I removed it, and have never found a way of refitting it I liked.
While playing with the mesh, I thought I would recreate the effect I had on the previous grill. So again I made up a simple mask, by laser printing the logo on to some thick paper and then cutting it out. I will then fix it to the mesh and paint over it.
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Applied the stencil, I made last night, to the mesh and gave it a couple of coats of primer, then some more in red.
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Having allowed the grill to dry, I decided to bend the ends up at 90° and then fit two pieces of wood at each end of the opening for the grill to screw on to.
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A few more additions to the car, I managed to rescue a map light from a MG Midget on one of my trips to the scrapyard, this was fitted on the bottom of the heater. Also I made up a badge for the rear of the car.
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The wooden block idea to hold the grill proved to be unsuccessful, as the force of the wind, was causing the wood to come unstuck, as it lacked surface area. I replaced them with a pair of metal "clamps" attached to the hinge area.
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On a recent trip to work, I noticed that the steering spigot was loose, so it was welded to the column, this was something I meant to do, but had somehow forgotten !
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