I had the following list of jobs to do:
- Fit door
- Fit dash
- Fix hazards/indicators
- Sort out front tracking
- Then sort out camber/castor
- Fix brake lines then bleed
- Adjust handbrake
- Fit seats and harnesses
- Fit arches (after making brackets)
- Fit mirrors
- Fit grille and surround
- Wire up headlights
- Fit fog light
- Fit bootlid light
- Fit bonnet pins and buckles
- Fit bonnet
- Fit KAD engine steady
I decided to go and work on the hazards/indicators, since if I couldn't get them to work, everything else was inconsequential, since I couldn't pass an MOT with no hazards, even if I had everything else on that list done. Just to give me a bit more time I managed to phone around a few garages and get a later MOT at 3.30pm ish.
My immediate suspicion for the cause of the hazards problem was earthing, since I was working on a fibreglass body after all, it wouldn't surprise me if I'd missed an earth somewhere! My new multimeter said I was getting power to the relevant places, but only with the ignition on position II. So now I thought I may have the wires going to the fusebox wrong - nope.
Again, to cut a long story short, the inline fuse behind the carb had an intermittent connection. I had checked this a number of times, but most of the time I was getting power through it, but on the one time I didn't I put it down to a poor connection with the multimeter terminal - since I was getting power at the flasher unit. Anyway, I chopped out the inline fuse and put in a spare fusebox, utilising one of the slots with a 15A fuse. Problem solved, the hazards and indicators worked perfectly! Unfortunately it was 9pm! I'd missed the MOT, and my deadline by which to get the mini done so I could drive it to the 'Ring! To say I was dissappointed was a bit of an understatement, I really don't give up on things, at all really. Hence why I worked on it regardless all through the day, even when it was too late.