With the gearbox work done, I attached a couple of parts that arrived in the mail this week.
This NOS junction block is a perfect fit, despite being from another type of MV.
The post-office pickup slip description which I thought may have been the long awaited wiring loom, actually turned out to be these two brake hoses, in a very well packed (and somewhat enlarged) box. This pair of hoses are the ones that go to front & rear axles. They were custom made in USA, and cost $50.00 including shipping, for the pair. They even came with the locking clips and copper washers. Now that I have seen the quality, i'll call the supplier and order a new pair for the front axle to wheel cylinders.
I had initially offered the local brake repair shop the job of making these (and two others), and I left a sample hose with them so they could get the right ends. That was 7 weeks ago now............Their loss!
I should actually have gotten more done this weekend, but we bought a new ride-on mower on Saturday, and I decided to tidy up the place first. This one goes a number of times faster than the previous, lethargic one. That includes in reverse too!! Naturally, when Gympie finally secures the Hardie Ferodo 1000 (or whatever Bathurst is called now), I shall enter immediately. In the years BC (Before Children), my wife & I took a detour to Bathurst while on a driving holiday, for the purpose of trying our new sports-car on the track. Well OBVIOUSLY I didn't make too much of a point of the track trying bit. As it turned out, I was saved from a very expensive speeding ticket by another motorist who flashed his lights to say there was a police radar set up on the downhill straight! For you foreigners, the 'Bathurst 1000' is a 1000km race on a closed public road that then becomes the racing circuit. Keep your NASCAR, our vehicles can turn right, as well as left!