Wiring Harness

Rear brake line


On Christmas day I finished installing the brakelines. I wished I could have made the neatest bundle of lines around the master cylinder but I am not displeased with my result. I used a tubing bender to make the 90-degree bends and did the rest by hand. The front lines are a little long and I will have to cut the tubes and re-flare the ends when I am closer to aligning the front suspension parts. There doesn't seem to be a bracket for the attach point between the copper tubing and the flex lines but from the build guide it looks like they are just attached at the side panel. That seems a little flimsy to me!

Front brake lines added

 The routings of the lines are different for LHD so I simply used the smoothest bends and a path that flowed around the chassis bits. I am not tightening any of the fittings at this point, in case I have to move anything around later. 

I then got started with the wire harness routing. The mounting plate behind the scuttle was provided with two rivnuts for attaching the fuse and relay panel but the plastic panel that was supplied had no corresponding attach points. It had four fingers that engaged slots, I suppose, in whatever application it was designed for but the supplier must have made a substitution along the way and GBS didn't make an update to suit it.  I had to temporarily slip one screw through an engagement finger to hold the panel in its approximate location and get on with routing all the harness. I'll have to devise a better solution later.


Fuse/Relay Panel added

Here you can see the fuse/relay panel temporarily mounted to the bracket. The wiring harness is very thick and inflexible where it bends around the bottom of the panel above the (non-existant) top panel of the tunnel. It doesn't help that it is cold (about 45 degrees inside the garage) which makes the wiring stiff. I removed the tape wrapping around the main trunk line to help get the bend to flow properly and this photograph was taken after struggling with the position and routing. It's pretty clear that getting airtight pass-thrus into the tunnel area is going to require some fabrication. Since the tunnel topping panels were not included in the kit I will be fabricating my own panel to seal off this area.

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