Since my Mk3 is now back on the road I've been back onto Gog and its getting quite close to driving out of the shed.
Several hiccups have delayed progress.
1. Fuel tank. The plans have been to lift the tank to the original height so the diff illumination can be seen from the rear. When the tank was removed it was obvious that there was a fuel leak in the top folded seam, so the intended fix was the clean inside and apply a tank sealant prior to re-fitting. Unfortunately when I started pressure washing inside the tank flakes of resin started coming away. On closer inspection the tank previously had a window cut in the side for a previous repair. The result being the tank could not be reliably repaired/sealed. Given that there were only about 5,000 109/110 forward controls ever made replacement fuel tanks are almost unobtainable and added to that Gog's tank had been further modified for the rear spare wheel carrier. A new replacement tank was fabricated and that is now installed at the higher position.
2. Lamps and wiring. Head, side, indicator and stop/tail lamps have all been installed. The front wiring fitted together with the original terminals to the standard scheme and worked first up (at least worked with the newly installed hazard lamp switch. The rear has been somewhat more difficult. The indicator and side lamps were connected and worked by a system of trial and error. Unfortunately the stop lamp wiring couldn't be identified at the rear even with a test pencil. The result is I've removed the spaghetti junction at the rear of the chassis which had original Land Rover, SADF and post service civilian elements and am now re-terminating all the wires in a logical system. It seems that the SADF installed a 7 function terminal block which would make things easier (if some of the screws weren't stripped). The problem is that the original green/purple wire has been cut at the end of the original Land Rover harness, so this hasn't been operational for some time. There is a secondary harness running through the chassis, which I'm assuming contains the SADF convoy lighting, but so far haven't been able to identify an active stop lamp wire.
Its all a bit awkward doing problem solving when you don't have either an SADF SIIB wiring schematic or even a civilian SIIB wiring schematic.
Currently attempting to identify wires at the front black wire white trace, black wire blue trace, brown wire green trace (runs to rear in secondar harness). Any ideas?
Photos to follow.