What have you been doing on your X1/9 since lockdown?

Finally forced into doing something about the drive shaft boots as the driver side decided to make things a little worse!

Is that gearbox oil leaking out?

Sure is! Or I should say was…

Did the relay mod for the wipers, thought it a good idea ahead of the club event in Wales!

I fitted a Lumenition ignition system.

I got fed up with it stopping due to crappy capacitors failing after very few miles, (fewer than 20 miles in one case)

The idle was improved immediately and a small air leak under the carburetor was found and cured.

@Neal - that relay job looks really neat. Are they in a proper holder, if so where did you get that?

Mine seems to be the love child of a GF and SE, so wipers are already on a relay, I think.

I assume you already did the same for headlights. I understand dipped beam goes through the column and headlight switches even on the later models (don't think the changeover relay caters for that, please correct me if I'm wrong, I need to get down and close up to the wiring diagrams). If so, I should do that on mine, intercept the wire as it heads for the fuse box and make that the low current side of a relay (with a small inline fuse I guess), and attach the new power source to the wire that goes into the original fuses for dipped beam.

12voltplanet. www.12voltplanet.co.uk/standard-mini-rel...-with-terminals.html

They clip together along with a fuse holder. www.12voltplanet.co.uk/standard-blade-fu...-with-terminals.html

Yes on my 1300 both dip and main beam goes through the column switch and the master switch so fitting relays to both circuits made a heck of a difference. Just intercept the feed to the headlights in the headlight pods themselves and mount the relays there.