Heater box, courtesy light switch, rub a dub, dub!

Good evening ya'll,  

I happened to be pawing through some of my junk and found a door switch for JJ's missing drivers side door.  It even worked when I put the ohm meter on it and Jennifer should now have a working courtesy light.  I suspect that it would work when she opened the passengers door but the wire was hanging loose in the door panel.  Simple switch but the new ones are made in China and usually fall out because they are made of soft metal.

So after spending the morning painting the heater box, testing the motor and so forth it was time to start taking care of the firewall and area under the battery tray.  At some point there must have been an overcharging situation with the battery as the area where the battery was has had a lot of paint damage from acid spewing out.  I wire brushed the rusty areas as best I could then hit it with rust encapsulator.  Tomorrow, after it's had time to cure I'll prime and paint the area which should keep it good 'indefinitely'....

A bit of fraying of the cloth covered wiring harness, black electrical tape would do the job but looks out of place on a fabric cover loom so I used some 'friction' tape to cover it.  Hated this stuff as a kid cause it wouldn't stick to anything but I've since learned that you over lap one end and tie off the other- looks a little better than shiny vinyl tape IMO.

You can't tell much but here is the primed and painted heater box with 4 coats of paint, should look original in a short period of time ;-)

The cleaned up area for the brake booster, master cylinders battery and so on.


Tomorrow I plan on painting this area and doing more on the interior. We'll see.....

That's All Folks.....


Cheers,
Lynn

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