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Weather gear (160 build)


700newtons

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I made a start on the weather gear today.

Caterham provided a full hood with the kit. However, I plan to use a half hood instead. I have an larger uprated roll bar and the full hood looks an unlikey fit (but possible, I understand, from reading the forums). I have decided not to install the hood sticks and the full hood car stay in the box. In retrospect I should have asked Caterham to supply a half hood instead of the full hood ( I don't know if they do this)

It took me a while to get the boot cover sorted (measure twice and cut once etc). I found that fairly gentle taps are best when using the durable dot tool.

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I also secured the rubber mats in the footwell. I found it best to rivet the poppers with the flat rivet side underneath. I avoided placing the poppers in the way of the seat position lever.

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And today I bolted on the doors. (This made me a bit nervous. If this is cocked up, it would be very annoying)

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The manual warned about the problems with drilling into the curved chasis tube when fixing the door clips, and with good reason; I nearly messed it up. I found it best to drill 2mm pilot holes and the follow through with large drills.

When riveting on the popper studs I found it best to insert tiny nuts next to the flat rivet face inside the popper stud. This holds the rivet in place as you use the rivet tool.

I also stuck on the rear view mirror (inverted as the manual suggests) and windscreen wipers (after letting the blank studs oscillate and come to rest in the 'off' position).

My windscreen wiper fuse kept blowing (a 10A fuse). I notice that some other Caterham models have a 15A fuse for the wipers, so I used this, and it seems to work fine now.

I made a 12V socket connection with bits from ebay (much cheaper than the Caterham socket). It seems to fit nicely in the fuse box cover.

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This looks very tidy! I assume the 12v socket is for your charger? Is there a straightforward path for the charger cable into the engine bay?

Cheers

N

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Hi Ned,

This is was for my sat nav. Although I may get a trickle charger if it seems that I need one.

Roll on Monday for you.

Simon...

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