Ok, had to take care of some on call work stuff earlier, so lost a bit of time to that tonight unfortunately, although I did still get a bit done.
The major achievement today of course was the housemate finding the pilot air screw spring, just awesome!
I now have a matched pair:
Bit hard to photograph, but both back where they belong:
I also adjusted them to what they were before disassembly, left 2 1/4 turns out, right 2 turns out.
Then, back onto the electrics.
Held up the $6 each spark plug cap gamble I took:
No way are they going to fit.
So, after the run around I got on Sunday, there's no way I'm trying any of those auto shops again. ZPower here (
www.zpower.com.au) apparently have XB05F's for $9.95 each, so I think I'll just order from them and suck up the postage costs. It will still be cheaper than Repco's rip off $7 each plus a $17 freight fee!
Then I got the rats nest back together again:
And finally identified my odd wire that I couldn't find a home for:
It belongs to this:
Yep, that's right, I have a brand new in the bag brake light switch from years ago when I actually had a spare one.
So instead of hooking the car battery up tonight, I decided to try some resistance measurements through the harness instead.
With the ignition and kill switch on, everything was showing about 1.8 ohms resistance from the battery terminal, including at the fuse and the connector for the fuse into the main harness.
So, took that bit off to check it all out and give it a good thorough clean up:
I remembered at that point that the PO had some electrical tape wrapped around one of the connectors that I always had meant to fix but never quite got around to.
Apologies for the blurry pic's, but under the tape it was a tad ugly and missing the rubber sleeves that go over the bullet connectors:
