Had the MK on the road now for a year this month. its done around 1600 miles
including a trackday at Croft. After going to Newark kit car show and seeing the hood on the MK on there stand i was one of those very interested in purchasing and making my indy all the more useable.
I'm going from 3 to 2 cars and want to keep the indy so making it more useable is a must!!
SO,
Firstly - Unfortunatley i've no pics of putting on the windscreen (bought from MK) but its in the pics.
items purchased for wiper assembley
Mini wiper motor assembly
Mini Stainless wiper arms and blades
Washer bottle and pump
all from eBay
The first step was to reduce the size of the mini motor arm as the bezels were to far apart, these where then marked and holes drilled into the scuttle and the motor attached to chassis
Unfortunatley I put my battery tray in behind the lip of the scuttle so ihad to take the scuttle off as well, only a 10 min job though.
Wiper motor in
The Bracket
top view
Not much table space left
Wiper arms. The arms I got of eBay were far to long, as the blades went of the screen!!!
They have been reduced immensely and mean that I can use the 10 inch blades that came with the arms instead of getting 8 inch blades. This has the added bonus of getting extra coverage of the screen, I would estimate I’m getting a good 90% - 95% coverage with the blades, after a little fettling, shaping and twisting the arms so the screen will be awesomely clear when its raining!
In the first pic, the top one is the original and the bottom is the one I bent to match it, I then just needed to drill the holes.
Next job was the washer jets, I had idea of where to locate them but it turned out that they jetted water went straight into the wiper arm so I located them where they are now
This pic shows where the water hits the screen
Location
Washer tubing – just to be sure they didn’t pop off – the pump is surprisingly powerful! – I put zip ties on
It didn’t seize to rain all day
Covered the sisters boyfriends car – had the soft top on which is about as waterproof as a sieve.
Fitting the chrome bezels on
Finally, putting on the wiper blades
Done!! Just need to go down to MK to pic up my roof
and install it – I’ll hopefully be picking it up in the Mk at the Mk open day on 23rd
August. I would like to add a big thanks to dad for doing ALL the wiring
and a big thanks to BenB who sent me loads of great pictures with measurements and
that saved me a lot of time and made the job a lot easier to do! Thank you both! Project number 2 – carrying on the theme of making the indy more useable I’m going for a bootlid with lock
Purchases
Wood
Hinges
Both from B&Q
I still need to get a cam lock for it, no where seems to sell them round me but I found some on ebay for horseboxes so that will be waterproof and sturdy for the job!
Before Pics
Template and drawing it out and then cutting it outwith the jigsaw
Modifying the boot to get a good fit creates dust!!
Hole cut for boot lid
Accurate jigsawing
Glueing in the lip
Pretty much there, i just need a cam lock
And then I need to cover it – thinking of doing something to match the dash
And when its covered and locked it’ll be:
DONE!
PS the reason for the boot opening this way is because when the hood is lowered and resting on the rear of the car the boot will still be accessible. With it being this way also means it is accessible from the inside without having to take the hood down – so I don’t have to get out and lower the roof to reach for my sandwiches
Hope you enjoyed that
(I hope it works cos its taken ages to write this post!!) All The Best
Ant and Matt
(pic 4)
