Chris Williams' Journal

Have been using the MGB quite a bit and I'm due for its first 'pink slip'.

I drive it to school most days and apart from developing a few more rattles and the gearbox whining a bit more, it starts well and goes well.

I haven't got to the new gearbox yet but I've been making a few enquires about trying to find someone who can check it out for me before I swap it over. Without much success, I might add, although I've not given it a good go yet.

We took the MG on a 'overnighter' last Easter to the Hunter and across to Port Stephens for a few days without incident, but other than that, not much to report. I did dig out the hood and frames and have been using that on and off for the last month or two and although it is pretty 'ratty', it does make the MG a little more liveable on cold winter mornings.

Anyway enough of that - now the parking lights.

I did these with some generic lights that I cut down last year but they were not a success and I had been thinking of using some of the LEDs that I had bought some time age to see if I could improve them.
Well, to cut a long story short, it was very successful.
The result is excellent. Very bright and with the lens diffusers on you can see them quite well from the side.

The LEDs have the resister attached already and I made a little aluminium clip to hold the LED in place. The resistor and the extra wire is simply looped up into the space under the LED that was previously occupied by the light globe.