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The Classic Marque

Interesting---If it's blowing your inline fuse the short to earth must be from there onwards toward/ending at the od solenoid. Unusual for the rev/od switches to short to earth but anythings possible. If you have a multimeter with an audible short circuit buzzer, you could remove the fuse and connect to the od side of the wiring there and to earth and try wiggling /disconecting things untill you...

Hadn't really thought of that Guy, but yep, could be.
We had an extended El Nino period here a few years back and the weather went really dry that winter, so you're probably right, although the last week or so there's been a bit of rain. the last El Nino here came in mostly from the east so yeah it may well be pushing the normal weather back a bit if that's what's happening. Supposed to hit 16C...

Is this a pre cursor to the much publicised El Nino build up?

Thanks Tim
What I call an Irish answer, though maybe that would be considered racist these days? When asked for directions in Ireland the classic answer was "I wouldn't start from here". said with appropriate accents and padded out into a long and humerous story of course!

But thank you, its good advice. I have also been backing up to a 1TB USB stick though it seems so physically smal...

It's 11am here and weird. You'd think it was summer.
Stunning ,warm day, not a sign of any wind, dead still which is weird enough on it's own here where we cop quite a lot of Westerlies mostly year round. A bit of low cloud out at sea on the horizon but above is clear blue sky, only one or two little cotton ball clouds that also aren't moving at all. all a bit strange. I have a largish family...

Very minor issue imo.

No rust, great spec'. Paint blemishes don't matter much unless it's destined to be shown instead of used as it should be.

Have you a price in mind? Not that I'm buying. One Sprite is enough for me. Lol. Just being nosey. 😅.

Remember when it used to be 7up? 😉

Personally, I wouldn't be backing up to the cloud, especially if it is Microsoft.

You could get one of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CGW18S6Y/?language=en_GB&cstrackid=1dad67ba-d5d7-4d62-91b8-846cb407fb29&tag=micronuk-21&th=1

and backup your valuable stuff there.

Then you could have it in three places - your old laptop, new laptop and your external ssd

I'm getting a new laptop. My current one backs up to "the cloud" wherever that is. If I copy all my valued files and photos to my new computer, which then backs up, presumably to my same account. Will that double up on everything. It already keeps telling me it's almost full. The stuff backed up from the new laptop will all have the same names, but a different home address.

Having said that...

Photos can be deceiving! There is a paint reaction on parts of the bonnet. I have an isolating primer to go on, then another go with the top coats. Other than that its ok but with scope for a bit if tlc!

I have fitted an overdrive switch to my gearlever and it has worked fine for several thousand miles.

I included an inline 5A fuse on the white feeding it -just as well, as it has just started blowing.

I cannot see any bare wires/chafing in the obvious place round the bottom of the gear lever or the wires around the gear box OD switch that I can see with an endoscope poked in ...