Some work on the car has gotten done over the last few days, but I've been too lazy to post or even take a picture.

I got the wiper switch installed under the dash. I wanted to drill a new hole in the dash, but I didn't have a drill bit big enough, and I was also worried about messing up the vinyl dash covering and drilling the hole off center. So, I just punted and installed it underneath. I had to fabricate an aluminum bracket for this, and remove the dash to install it.

I started to polish the stainless steel spacers that go over the bolt that attaches the quick jacks. As I polished each one, I got better and now have to go back to the first few I did and redo them. They turned out pretty good, and I'll take an updated picture of them on the car. I also test fitted the rubber grommets that cover the front quick jack body holes.

With the help of one of my new co-workers Jay, he figured out what I was doing wrong with the wipers. Turns out you need to make the copper tubes long enough so they fit into the wheel box (the bottom part of the wiper posts). What this does, is to connect the wiper motor and wheel boxes into one solid assembly, so instead of the motor rocking back and forth, it can't, because it's hard mounted to the wheel boxes. Now, the wipers work great, and the only thing left to do, is drill a hole for the switch in the dash and clean up the wiring under the dash.

Jonathan also stopped by this weekend to help, and we managed to get the side view mirror positioned and installed, as well as installing the trim plates on the windshield.

I got the wiring for the windshield wipers done. With no blades on the motor turns the blade posts, but once the blades are on, there is too much friction which causes the wiper motor cable to bind. It appears that there are two reasons for this. One, the motor is probably mounted about 1 to 2 inches too low, and there is a bigger than needed bend in the cable. Second, the fire wall is just a think sheet of aluminum, and isn't very rigid, in addition to that, the wiper motor mounding hardware isn't doing a good job of keeping the motor from rocking back and forth. The plan is to remount the wiper motor up in order to minimize the cable bend, and reinforce the motor mounting to minimize motor movement. Once that is done, I still have to drill a hole in the dash for the switch, currently it is just dangling.