DDG 220 C aka "Millie" - MK 1 Singer Chamois

[John A. Ross]

Continuing with wiring

Fog lamp attached as is the reverse light for now.

All was working fine but the reverse lamp stopped working and my feeling is it is actually the coupling as gear selection has went pear shaped.

Perhaps the link was not as good as i thought

[High_dan]

Bummer John, looked like a tidy design. Was going to copy it on mine. At the moment I’ve just got a micro switch by the gear stick.

[John A. Ross]

Dan, I reckon the switch is fine, but with the flexi coupling appearing to fail it has likely let me move beyond where it was and bent the lever, this would have destroyed the factory push switch.

Will see when I get car back in the air to change the coupling.

Was working so well ! but with gear change now gone to crap, needs fixed.

[John A. Ross]

Well pawl unit overhauled.

SEE PAWL UNIT POST HERE

So I decided to add the pawl unit and indicator controls to a 6 way connector as the wire group of pawl plus indicators just fitted a 6 way so well.

Hopefully the other connectors turn up tomorrow and i can get the binnacle finally done.



And the Hazard light controls also now all in, everything working great including the pawl unit

So far so good !

[Petowner]

Why is it you click on the picture to open it in another page enlarged and it opens it ok but not enlarged ?
Alright on top picture but those last two stay the same , and it's surprising what a difference the enlarged version makes
Nice TIDY job though John .

[John A. Ross]

Bob

I just checked and those images are very small, normally the ones I upload can be anything between 400k to 4M so zoom up easy, those ones are only 90k or so and very small

I will sort you out bigger ones

[John A. Ross]

Thats the car side of the wiring and multi plugs done.

So far everything working and tested, so binnacle is now out to tidy up all the wiring behind that and add the plugs to connect back in.

[Petowner]

It was the reversing light on DDG i was referring too when l asked what make it was?

[John A. Ross]

It was the reversing light on DDG i was referring too when l asked what make it was?

Bob

Ah OK

It was these I bought from Ebay, were £7.50 a pair when I bought these now £10 !

They are very bright though Bob, was thinking hiding a set under the front bumper to be honest

[Petowner]

Yes ,thought that they'd look better inside engine lid ,shining through vent slots, hidden as it were.

[John A. Ross]

Wiring finally tidy up and ready to connect

Binnacle hung and fitted

Just need to make sure nothing is "on" that should not be with ignition switch off

So far only failure has been the main beam warning lamp, seems not to be working. No idea why, as it is LED indicator I used finer wires than normal so will need to get a better look tomorrow.

Small casualty though, the foam I used to rest the binnacle on seemed to melt itself onto the lacquer I used on the indicator stalks but as i can remove the binnacle anytime now with ease, will leave that as a later fix.

Second casualy was the NOS lucas wiper switch i bought, gave up at second use, spring inside feels like it went for a walk so had to change that up

Will get back on case tomorrow and if i can find my other oil cooler bracket might even be able to cold crank it and get some pressure up

[John A. Ross]

Well it creeps one step closer now.

Oh, fixed the lamp issue, FAULTY LED lamp so crushed out the LED and just used the the screw in body, fitted my own led

Tested the oil pressure sender (electric) temp sender and fuel sender, all good.

Added a few of the last bits in,

And now one last thing on the engine block, the oil cooler exit elbows, the crush washers were toast on these and you apparantly cant get new ones.







So added an O ring, slightly oversize dowty (o ring sits tight inside dowty and added some thread sealer so hopefully thats that sorted.





Clean out the cannister, prime filter with oil and mount the cooler and thats the engine ready to dry crank !

[John A. Ross]

And setup the dash pads, decided i will live with the slightly different pattern of the large crash pad in lieu of having the ash tray hole to make a bracket to mount the rev counter and mobile phone clamp

You dont really notice the difference in pattern

[John A. Ross]

Oil coller brackets coated (after I found them that is ! )



And oil cooler is now in





Thats the oil path all buttoned up so can get it cranked to get pressure up now YEAH

2 hose clips to get cooling loop done, nearly forgot the carb manifold !

[High_dan]

Looking forward to the video of it running John!