{"id":169,"date":"2005-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:10:06","slug":"bel-air\/bit-wiring-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"A bit of Wiring Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kids were both ill on Saturday. so I spent the day in the house. While Poppy was making some Christmas cards I made a start on the wiring by wiring up all the gauges. I wired for the electronic speedo too which should be here before Christmas hopefully. With all that cut and soldered it&#8217;s one less thing to do at least. Sunday I got some garage time, so made a start on wiring the rest of the car. I got the fuse panel in and roughly laid out the wires from it over the column. Once I knew where it all sat I cut and soldered the Raingear intermittent wiper switch.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"341\" alt=\"Controls-In.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2005\/12\/Controls-In.jpg\" \/>   I&#8217;m trying to work out what will fit under the dash and where it all sits so I fitted the switch and bezel which suddenly made it seem closer to being finished in my head. I also wired the ignition, and the lights then got the Vintage Air AC kit from the house. A quick skim through the instructions revealed that I needed to remove the factory defrost duct, which was behind the Raingear wipers. It was a pig to get out, as you cant get to the bolt that holds it in, especially with the newly fitted switches in the way. To top it off, I dropped the spanner down the A pillar, and it took me twenty minutes to hook it back out. With it all bolted back in, I put the pipes on the Vintage Air box and swung it under the dash to bolt in. Except I couldn&#8217;t. I&#8217;ve welded up the holes it uses. So it&#8217;s either drill them back out or work out a different mount.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"347\" alt=\"Wiring-Started.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2005\/12\/Wiring-Started.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids were both ill on Saturday. so I spent the day in the house. While Poppy was making some Christmas cards I made a start on the wiring by wiring up all the gauges. I wired for the electronic speedo too which should be here before Christmas hopefully. With all that cut and soldered it&#8217;s one less thing to do at least. Sunday I got some garage time, so made a start on wiring the rest of the car. I got the fuse panel in and roughly laid out the wires from it over the column. Once I knew where it all sat I cut and soldered the Raingear intermittent wiper switch.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"341\" alt=\"Controls-In.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2005\/12\/Controls-In.jpg\" \/>   I&#8217;m trying to work out what will fit under the dash and where it all sits so I fitted the switch and bezel which suddenly made it seem closer to being finished in my head. I also wired the ignition, and the lights then got the Vintage Air AC kit from the house. A quick skim through the instructions revealed that I needed to remove the factory defrost duct, which was behind the Raingear wipers. It was a pig to get out, as you cant get to the bolt that holds it in, especially with the newly fitted switches in the way. To top it off, I dropped the spanner down the A pillar, and it took me twenty minutes to hook it back out. With it all bolted back in, I put the pipes on the Vintage Air box and swung it under the dash to bolt in. Except I couldn&#8217;t. I&#8217;ve welded up the holes it uses. So it&#8217;s either drill them back out or work out a different mount.    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"347\" alt=\"Wiring-Started.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2005\/12\/Wiring-Started.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}