Convoy!

If you haven’t seen the 1978 Sam Peckinpah film, you haven’t lived. Quite fittingly this film sprung to mind whilst fitting the convoy light. This was fairly easy although a bit of painting was needed. Yes the leads do need trimming and probably some heat shrink. Ill think about this once I have the trailer socket in place.

In fact the hardest part of the process was buying the screws which hold the light to the bracket. JLR wouldn’t sell them to me. Craddock did.

You may notice that I have installed the chassis loom. This is the first part of the Autosparks loom and so far so good apart from the grommet they had pre-fitted. This was massively too big but I had already got the correct ones as I wasn’t actually expecting the grommets to come on the loom. These, being smaller, were a right pig to get over the connector at the bullhead end. Top tip: needle nose pliers to stretch them over the block after warming them in hot water.

To run the loom through I used a length of thick earth cable and I found it easiest to feed in both directions (fore and aft) from the hole under the chassis rail dog leg. This was then pulled through with the loom taped to it. This would appear to be the simplest part of the wiring!