The gauges had finally arrived. I immediately got to work making an adaptor ring for the speedometer. Thread pitch is 2.5mm:
Thread depth? 1.5mm:
Unfortunately, thread angle is NOT 60* like I expected. It's 90* on one side and 45* on the other. This meant a custom thread profile, which is not difficult to do particularly, but it WAS time consuming. And it means that there's an "up" and a "down" side to these little adaptor rings:
But, with a bit of perseverance, I was able to print a ring that worked and install it on the gauge:
After which, it popped into place:
And now that I have the actual GPS sensor, I can print a final product for the under-dash-hidden-sensor-doohickey:
And it's ready to install. But, first another distraction. I met my new neighbor. He had a buddy over. Said buddy had this. "You wanna sit in it, lemme take your picture?" You bet yer bum I do!
Then, another fantastic sound from outside. Skyline guy was back!
But enough about other people's cars. How about my own? I taped and spliced the power and lighting harnesses together:
I went looking for a place to connect them, and came across this. That's a screw that's about to fall out, directly into the path of two other circuits. And it wasn't the only one. Yay!
