A few more little jobs

Have been working around the 2000 again, catching up on some of those small but never the less annoying little jobs.
For a while now the car has not had a drivers side parcel tray, which fits under the steering column and can be very useful for holding bits like mobile phones or cash. Trouble is that these trays are not to easy to get hold of, second hand ones normally water damaged from leaking windscreens. I did however manage to find a Triumph parts breaker who wanted £30 for one, which I guess is a fair price, but they would only accept payment by cheque and I would be buying it unseen with no guarantee of the quality of it.

At this point I remembered I still had the front parcel tray from the Dolomite 1500 I scrapped a couple of years ago. So after a bit of cutting and a new outer bracket made up the tray was soon fitted, saving me £30 and having it fitted a week sooner than if I bought the second hand one.
I will probably still keep an eye out for a proper MkI parcel tray, but for now this ought to do for now and might even fit the radio in.

One of the rear light clusters had a cracked lense, so I managed to pick-up one cheap on eBay and give it a through clean before fitting, you can really see the difference between the two in the picture. Unfortunately the other side was not so keen to be removed for cleaning, needing one of the securing bolts to be cut out. It seems the gasket for the lense had been leaking, corroding the fixing bolt. Luckily I had another backing piece, so this was not a problem, but it will need a new gasket to prevent water getting back in.

Meanwhile I have finished stripping parts from the MkI spare front end. There was not much left worth having after the two wings and the nose cone, but I did remove steering column and the pedals, as they are useful for anybody who is converting a MkI 2000/2500 from auto to manual. If you want those pedals or the column, please contact me through blogger or PM me (SpitBang) on the Club Triumph forum