Water temperature gauge and heat shield

Hope you all had a good Memorial Day!  I always wonder about the correct adjective for this holiday, somehow 'Happy' just doesn't seem to fit.

Today I decide that I would be happy if I could get a couple of tasks completed so I decided to tackle the water temperature gauge and the brake heat shield replaced. So Dear reader continue on:

One of the challenges I face is the inability to ignore bodges that I encounter, here's one that I fixed, obviously the installer didn't realize that this edge tucks in under the glove box and is held by the lip.

This is the air flow vent, two of the vanes were broken and I was able to get one of them realigned, the far right one needs TLC

The center console was not fastened in, perhaps because the dash center can't be lowered, probably because the gear shift cover and lower console is too high-should be removed at some future point and adjusted so that the radio console can be lowered.

New Water Temperature gauge

This is the line for the gauge.

Lines enter the firewall between the WS washer bottle and the wiper motor.

The asbestos heat shield 


Asbestos, very friable and in need of replacement

Heated up the rivets so that they could be reused

New shield made out of Hardy Backer board, held in place using original rivets and washers

New heat shield in place.
Well, that's it for today.  Time to make dinner....
Cheers,
Lynn

6.5 hrs


PS:  Hi Drew, for some reason the blog will not allow me to respond to any comments but I sure appreciate your thoughts.

PPS: I found CJ on XKEData so I thought I'd post a link to it:
http://www.xkedata.com/cars/detail/?car=1R28432

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  1. Drew ScherzMay 27, 2019 at 5:01 PM

    More good work. Geez, you need to come visit my garage and see if your TLC can help my car. I still have my asbestos heat shield in place, but Lawrence covered it in foil tape so it looks totally incorrect. If I pull the foil tape off then a bunch of asbestos will come away. No bueno.

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