AK have helpfully opened up a large hole for the headlight. The rest is just about using a hole saw and opening a square section for the bracket on the indicator and stop/tail lights.
These are all from S&J Motors and look suitably old fashioned and in keeping with the overall look of the car.
Marking where the stop/tail and indicators will locate.
Holes drilled out and a square section for the little bracket on the rear.
The indicators have an orange bulb inside a clear lens.
More difficult is the fog and reversing lamps. There are a few ways to fit these if you have the big boxy ones. I will have nudge bars and I have seen them fitted there, but I quite like them being recessed into the body. I saw how it could easily be done in the AK workshop, and this is how it's done.
James has a really cool solution which involves a LED strip light that glows red for the fog light and white for the reversing light. It looks really smart, but I honestly prefer these old box lamps. It's an age thing.
AK have marked out roughly where they will go, but properly
measure it so the placement is symmetrical.
Open up the holes to easily accommodate the lamps. Leave around 2mm gap for when it gets sprayed.
Part of the boot floor will be cut, and this is ideal as the bracket holding the lamps will come up through here to be bolted down through the boot floor into the rear chassis rail.
A small piece of stainless steel sheet, formed into a right angle and drilled out.
Mark where the rear chassis rail is under the boot floor, and don't drill into the fuel tank.
Tap for 5mm bolts. I used pan head screws. The boot carpet will cover these and you don't want big knobbly bolts making themselves known.
The view from down under.
And we are done. Yes I know the left one looks slightly out of place, I hadn't properly secured it for the photo call.
Done apart from the reflectors. Fitting these to the body is tough because of the curves. It is possible to get reflectors that sit in a case that is itself curved but as I have a rear nudge bar it seems better to have them placed there.
A bracket is needed. One could site them right next to the overriders with a bracket attached to the mounting rod. Mine are sited at the end of the nudge bar with a circular plate riveted to the bar.
Circular plate
Riveted in place and then the reflector attached.
