Unfortunately as far as car building goes, work rather took over on day 8 and there wasn’t any time to get any spanners out. However, Dad made some more progress on the headlamps and indicators.

Because of where I had put one of the grommets earlier in the build, I had to remove the front headlight bracket so I could remove it again! Now, that’s one of those jobs that sounds simple, but in order to take off the bracket, you have to remove the top wishbone bolt. The anti-roll bar sits in front of this bolt and the radiator its in front of the anti-roll bar! However, rather than go the full hog and remove all that, we decided to try and remove the anti-roll bar mount bolts on both sides and just slide the bar down the front of the car so we could get a socket onto the wishbone bolt… there was just enough movement in the bar to allow this!

With the headlamp bracket off the car, it was a much more reasonable job to get all the headlamp/indicator wires through the stalk. Still far from easy of course! The only other complication is the grommets that go into the holes to stop the wires chaffing. It’s not possible to get the wires through with them in place, so you thread one onto the wires before insertion and another one once the wires have made their way into the engine bay. Once everything is where it should be, you can then insert the grommets to finish the job off.

If I were building from scratch again, I would certainly get the lights done whilst building the front suspension. Although it would slow progress building whilst putting together the nice big bolts of the front suspension, it would have saved some frustration and time undoing bolts further down the line!