What did you do today?
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Re: What did you do today?
Obtained a used load sensing valve yesterday for the now-needy Corsa and went about fitting it today.
My brake-pipe-fu needs work.
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I find a hacksaw, a hexagon socket and either a reflaring tool or the bits to re make brake pipes are a good alternative to Brake-pipe-fu.Chodweaver wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:31 pm Obtained a used load sensing valve yesterday for the now-needy Corsa and went about fitting it today.
My brake-pipe-fu needs work.
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Does they not have jumping terminals under the bonnet?
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I helped my friend take the wheel cylinders off his scrapper.
I was surprised to see they are of the sliding backplate type, and consequently a doddle to remove. I took the brake pipe as well, if only for the unions.
He is going to send them off to Past Parts and put them on his own car. I wonder what the rear wheel cylinder design is like on my earlier car, as I have never had occasion to find out. I must check the workshop manual.
I was surprised to see they are of the sliding backplate type, and consequently a doddle to remove. I took the brake pipe as well, if only for the unions.
He is going to send them off to Past Parts and put them on his own car. I wonder what the rear wheel cylinder design is like on my earlier car, as I have never had occasion to find out. I must check the workshop manual.
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Mercrocker - the best headlamp setup I have found is the Lucas 700 headlamp with 414 bulb. The trouble is finding them with good silvering on the reflectors, though I think they can be re-silvered. The original wiring is easy to come by for this setup at autojumbles. I think your Minor would originally have had this arrangement, I am sure I read sealed beams didn't appear until 1966. Unfortunately someone has converted mine to sealed beams and butchered the wiring with spade crimps. Fine as they are, when they fail I will convert back to the pre-focus type.
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My Cowley is the same, complete with rotting bowls lashed up with literally papier mache covered in enamel paint! I am going to preserve them when I finally change the lamp units but I haven't eaten into my sealed beam stash very much so far.....I reckon the Minor was converted in the mid-60s judging by the non-standard wiring colour on the terminals. I put the Minor on H4s because at the time I was commuting at night - for a long time it was my only car. They are pretty damn good actually, just a little too white for my taste but a huge improvement in actually being able to see where one is going. Also they have the correct appearance rather than those flat-fronted things people insist on fitting.
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Re: What did you do today?
I'd have kept the ace black car on the road & scrapped the horrible Picasso thing behind it tbhfried onions wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:36 pm I helped my friend take the wheel cylinders off his scrapper.
On the road:
1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6
Running but need fettling:
1986 Honda CBX750F
1991 Maserati 222 SE
1990 Yamaha XJ900F
Tax & MOT-exempt, woohoo!
1982 Suzuki GSX1100SZ Katana
1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6
Running but need fettling:
1986 Honda CBX750F
1991 Maserati 222 SE
1990 Yamaha XJ900F
Tax & MOT-exempt, woohoo!
1982 Suzuki GSX1100SZ Katana
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Re: What did you do today?
Yeah but that black car will probably still outlast that Citroen and still be a spares car long after the Citroen expires.
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