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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - Wiper drive routing under dash

Building the car and lie of the wiper appears to go high under the dash and seems to go through gap in the stiffener in center of dash between the nearside and offside (RHD car).

Is that right?

N Kirk

thats exactly where mine goes
Mick - still wiring!!

at the risk of stating the obvious, you have allowed for the rack tubing pieces
Nigel Atkins

Yes, it goes through the scuttle brace pictured, but it is a nightmare with the wiper motor bolted down.

If you loosen off the nut holding the tubing to the motor, and pull the motor away from its mount until the drive cable is almost inside the passenger side wheelbox, you will then be able to feed the tubing through the hole and allow the cable up the inside of it without snagging or bending it.

Then you just have to fight with it to tighten the wheelboxes down onto the tubing.

Dont tighten the wheelbox retaining nuts until the whole system is in place, giving it enough slack to allow everything to bed into place and work without binding.
PeterJMoore

ah what a fun job this is. . . one of those gently does it occasions, with plenty of in and out of the car before mine worked as it should. . .but the trick i found was to take your time and as has been already said not tighten anything to much initally but see it working and then nip things up
p bentley

Here's how it went in my car.


Mike Howlett

Many thanks for the advice - like you say gently gently
N Kirk

Here is how mine was routed. It is a 1966 left hand drive.



Paul Noeth

Paul that looks like a very thorough restoration you're doing. Any more pics of it?
Greg H

Greg, do I have any more pics? Why yes, yes I do. I have enough pics to bore even my closest acquaintances to tears.

The problem is that I don't have them anywhere on-line where I can bore those I don't even know to tears. I will have to upload some of them one of these days.

Attached is a photo I took quite some time ago when I was still hacking on the chassis. Eventually, I removed the floor pans, along with everything else that was badly rusted, which included almost all of the lower sheet metal. The center tunnel was okay because it was protected over the years by the oil that leaked out of the rear seal.

I will post another pic that I took recently in the next message.

Paul Noeth

Here is how it stands today. I just put the heater blower in place. Still a long way to go but there is some light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak.

I plan to drive it so it is no longer stock. It has a 5-speed, alternator, and negative ground among other mods. I am trying to preserve the original appearance, however, so everything I have changed will be out of sight when the bonnet is in place.

I only hope that I get it finished before I am too old to get in it.

Paul Noeth

A very nice restoration! Looks like it's been a big project, but the hard work's obviously done, so I'm sure the rest will be quite enjoyable. The cooler, wetter climate certainly does some damage to these cars. It was only after getting on the forum that I realised how harsh a bad climate could be. I admire the effort some people go to get these cars back in good condition.

A nice mod you've done to hide the speakers up front.

Makes me realise my restoration has been a lot easier than many.
Greg H

This thread was discussed between 16/12/2012 and 03/01/2013

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