Otter LRC CM4647296 comes home

[Ed Storey]

And the Fox as well.

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[Jordan Baker]

A small bit of progress was made today on rebuilding the fuse box. Cutting and machining the fibre isolation parts. These isolate the bare power feed hookups.

[Jordan Baker]

Finished up the cover for the fuse box. I also cleaned up all of the original hookup points.

[Jordan Baker]

And all painted and baked to harden up the paint.

[David Dunlop]

Nice work, Jordan!

David

[Jordan Baker]

Onto the next part. The first Otters used an open manual throw type switch as a battery disconnect. At a certain point production changed to a standard heavy duty battery disconnect switch made by Delco Remy. It was located just inside the drivers door on the floor. Power from this split off to the starter and engine electrics and also to the fuse box for the wireless and interior lighting.

The switch was pretty rough looking but still quite solid and everything moved on it prior to removal from the Otter.

[Jordan Baker]

There was a guard that mounted with the switch to protect the wiring cables and the bottom of the switch. Interestingly this was painted in khaki green #3. The two screws that held the switch on would not budge and I ended up using s chisel to knock the heads off. I tried out the old trick of welding a nut onto the remaining studs and they unscrewed just fine.

Lastly some pictures of the entire switch all cleaned up. I’ll be zinc plating it once my supplies arrive later this week. Watching David’s ws52 restoration made me realize I too can replate parts back to NOS condition.