found a brand new stick for you to save any woes...

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the replacement Ali indicator stalk arrived, not bad for around $20 inc delivery.
It did have a dry joint on one of the earth wires, but 2 seconds with the soldering iron fixed that.



 
And for future reference, I found this stalk wiring diagram from the Group 4 website, who make replacement loom plugs also.
 
 

while Marty rockets along with not 1 but 2 rebuilds, i'm redoing stuff again, the headlights.
The repo stalk was fine, plugged everything in and it operated as expect, including horn, and even self cancells which wsa the main reason to replace the old one. Plus it has light icons I can see, so 1/2 step forward.
 
I'll admit to fitting the headlight adjusters and rings all wrong, but that was partly because i had a generic headlight kit. The headlight stampouts in the Express Panels are larger than the size of a generic headlight kit, so you really need to use actual Escort buckets, which plus they also hold the grill too.
By this stage, I'd butchered mine making 1 kit from 2, which got the light fitted, but properly.
 
So now, decent globes, with parkers, and correct buckets in:

 
One question though, its a bit hard to see, but at the outer edges of the grill, is it held in just with screws through the bucket, or is there a spacer or plug missing? The grill easily pulls in to meet the bucket, and so those side gaps wont be as obvious. Once this is sorted, I can get those spot brackets positioned in under the grill.
Very slow progress on this channel!