Octagon March, 2016

Now, how to fit the vacuum actuator to the
throttle. On the Jeep I had to fit this to the
accelerator pedal as it was a “fly by wire”
with electronics working the throttle. I had
thought about this for the Y, so you couldn’t
see it, but there wasn’t much room so I
abandoned that idea and decided to make a
new throttle lever.
On the Y it is the outer cable that operates
the throttle linkage and the inner flexible
cable is fixed to a stationary fitting. So I
made a new throttle lever - one side pushing
and one side pulling. The cruise control
works well and one can hardly see it when
fitted. The actuator fits in the cabin up under
the dash.
Two Way Radio
Wanting to have a two-way in the car, I
made a bracket that attached to 2 holes
existing in the firewall.
I was going to put some screws in these
holes anyway to stop some of the noise and
fumes from the engine bay getting into the
cabin. The bracket then attaches to another
bracket attached to the back of the dash
panel. On top of this bracket, I fitted the
electronic module for the cruise control (tight
squeeze). The two-way was fitted to the
bottom with some more made-up brackets.
Navman
With the change of diff centre and the
resultant change of ratio, I was worried as
to what speed I would be travelling - so I
bought a Navman whose name is Karen.
When trialling Karen, I had a disagreement
with her and started swearing at her. Delia
clapped her hands together and started
calling out “Hal-a-Lulah! He is not swearing
at me but at Karen! That’s a change!”
This made Delia very excited after being my
navigator and telling me where to go for the
last 40 years. She has quite a few trophies
for navigating for me in that time. Now she is
happy that I am now cursing someone else.
If the directions might drive one mad - the
speed readout is great! Most interesting, I
now find that the speedo reads the correct
speed in mph - instead of one that was
about 15% optimistic. It will be interesting to
see what the odometer is like.
Battery
I have now fitted the smaller battery (and not
flat) from the Midget into the battery box but
over to one side. This now gives me some
storage room in the battery box under the
bonnet for stuff like Lead replacement fluid
that I will need every fuel stop etc..
Now, we have to sort out Water, Spare Parts
(fanbelt, points etc) Camping Gear, Food,
and clothes I suppose.
The original bracket went to Valhalla with the
old Jeep. On to the bottom of the two-way
I fitted a couple of power sockets to charge
phone, camera etc.
The use of “pop rivet nutserts” (metric
threads though one fitted in the battery box
was rethreaded to ¼” BSF the same as
the original holes.) not sure the real name,
made this much easier to fit and remove.
After Easter, we will let you know how the
modifications worked out.
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The Octagon - March 2016