henry
Rover Rookie
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Post by henry on Jan 23, 2018 21:14:12 GMT
Hi, can someone start a section dedicated to hosting how to videos please.
Reason for asking is that one of my cars is a double choke set up, which has the 2 into 1 cable set up.
Having spoken with JR Wadhams, a replacement set up is over £100.00 which includes vat and postage, which seems a tad excessive given that you're talking about 3 cables.
Earlier today I purchased 4 bicycle cables and have spent the last few hours filing down two of the nipples in order that they will fit into the plastic link tube.
These 4 cables cost me £15.00.
I appreciate the fact that Wadhams are in business to make money but surely there's a limit as to how much parts will cost.
It's bad enough that a set of sills will set you back £300.00, but 100 for a choke cable? Really!!!
I've been taking pictures and shooting video sections and once on the car I will cut it into a how to / tutorial video.
I personally think that pants should only be pulled down when you're about to use the toilet and only by the person wearing them!
There has to be plenty of tricks and tips covering a multitude of issues when it comes to fixing these cars so why not share said knowledge.
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Post by enigmas on Jan 23, 2018 21:32:57 GMT
Hi, can someone start a section dedicated to hosting how to videos please. I personally think that pants should only be pulled down when you're about to use the toilet and only by the person wearing them! Hi there Henry...you're 'someone'...and here's a video (search youtube) to get you started. I'm a bit perplexed as to the context/meaning of the pants reference! Fitting Rear Leaf Springs to a P5B m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5YMmfRs9b4
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Post by barryr on Jan 23, 2018 23:21:22 GMT
Enigmas I think Henry's pants comment related to the price of 3 choke cables as in previous comment!
One tends to sympathise!!
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Post by ozriderp5 on Jan 24, 2018 6:00:54 GMT
I agree with Henry, it would be great to have a 'sticky' for a 'How To' section.
Either for Videos, pictures or Step by Steps.
I've always found this sort of thing helpful on bike or car forums.
Our own Ed China section....
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henry
Rover Rookie
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Post by henry on Jan 24, 2018 6:02:40 GMT
It's not something I can do as I don't have admin controls of this forum.
But... a main section heading of "How to videis"... and inside that you can have sub-sections that cover the whole car.
Engine. Gearbox. Interior. Suspension. Bodywork etc.
And yes, "Pants down" is aimed at some of the prices we have to pay... if 4 cables cost me 15 pounds, a plastic coupling, a pulling handle and two foot of cable sleeving is worth 85 pounds. Even on eBay a straight forward single choke cable is fifty quid and that's a five quid cable with a pulling handle / knob at one end.
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Post by ozriderp5 on Jan 24, 2018 6:26:45 GMT
The cost thing is dependant on whether you want original or functional.
I needed to move my manual auto transmission kick down which required a longer cable, something with writing on it would have cost me a bomb, aftermarket generic choke cable cost me $10 of eBay. As it's no longer in the same spot, I wasn't fussed about originality.
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Post by petrolhead allan on Jan 24, 2018 8:15:03 GMT
"Earlier today I purchased 4 bicycle cables and have spent the last few hours filing down two of the nipples in order that they will fit into the plastic link tube." Well Henry, I think that you have solved the mystery of the price differential. 'A few hours' x A reasonable hourly rate = £75? £100? I'm a great proponent of doing it myself rather than pay someone, but I do try to value my time. At my age, my 'hourly rate' is becoming increasingly valuable to me.
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Jan 24, 2018 8:49:00 GMT
I wonder who they could be Vince Yes a video of whatever is great so do what Glenn did and add a link
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Jan 24, 2018 12:05:30 GMT
"Earlier today I purchased 4 bicycle cables and have spent the last few hours filing down two of the nipples in order that they will fit into the plastic link tube." Well Henry, I think that you have solved the mystery of the price differential. 'A few hours' x A reasonable hourly rate = £75? £100? I'm a great proponent of doing it myself rather than pay someone, but I do try to value my time. At my age, my 'hourly rate' is becoming increasingly valuable to me. If you go to a good motor bike shop they sell inner cables and outer cables in various thicknesses by the metre also various nipples
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henry
Rover Rookie
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Post by henry on Jan 27, 2018 21:04:56 GMT
The cost thing is dependant on whether you want original or functional. Not really... this is an issue of cables. Aside from the pull knob inside the car, cables can be cut and spliced, which means to all intents and purposes it remains original. And aside from that, the only way you'll ever get genuine original parts is by borrowing the tardis from doctor who..! JR Wadhams are good in what they do but they are not Rover.
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Post by ozriderp5 on Jan 27, 2018 21:19:51 GMT
The cost thing is dependant on whether you want original or functional. Not really... this is an issue of cables. Aside from the pull knob inside the car, cables can be cut and spliced, which means to all intents and purposes it remains original. And aside from that, the only way you'll ever get genuine original parts is by borrowing the tardis from doctor who..! JR Wadhams are good in what they do but they are not Rover. Yes I agree cables can be repaired or re engineered but unless you can do it yourself it is an expensive option. A mate here found that out on his AMC Javelin when he got a bill for hundreds of dollars to 'repair' a couple of original cables rather than replace them. As far as aftermarket replicas goes, small run stuff will be expensive to reproduce. NOS is rare and hard to find. If I could borrow the Tardis Rover parts would be last on my list
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Post by Warwick on Jan 28, 2018 9:36:57 GMT
Yes I agree cables can be repaired or re engineered but unless you can do it yourself it is an expensive option. ... Not in the good old days. In the mid '70s when I was working on my Bolwell Mk.7, I needed to make up some hand-brake cables. The car had an 1968 Holden HR drum-brake rear axle, with the standard Holden cables connected. I had fitted a modified Ford Cortina hand-brake lever to the side of the deep console, and I'd made up an equalizer lever assembly to mount on the chassis ahead of the axle. Then I had the inner and outer hand-brake cable from a Peugeot 403 to interconnect it all. But this all required proper swaged nipples fitted to various ends, in place of the existing ones, so that all the unrelated parts would interconnect. I couldn't buy the nipples I needed, and besides, I wanted them swaged properly. I went to a couple of brake places and they couldn't help, so I rang the Repco brake parts factory in Melbourne. It was actually right in the city in those days. I thought they may be able to supply the parts. The receptionist put me through to the workshop foreman, who suggested I bring in all the pieces for him to look at. We arranged a day and a time, and I was instructed to go to the rear employees entrance and knock on the door. This I did, and he ushered me inside and into their development workshop at the back of the factory. I showed him the parts and what I intended to do. He disappeared for 5 minutes and returned with some nipples. He then set up a machine, assembled and swaged everything, and handed it back to me. That was it. No charge. Happy to help. This was the factory that made most of the brake parts for most of the cars built in Australia at that time. And that reminds me of another time when I ordered a Goodrich Spacer Saver spare tyre. Again it was in the mid-'70s and for the Bolwell. The car was a fastback but they don't have hatches. The heavy standard spare wheel sits in a well moulded into the floor behind the high-backed front seats. It's a struggle to get it out. Goodrich had just introduced the first space saving spare tyre and I'd recently seen one at the Melbourne Motor Show. It was displayed with an ill-fated Australian developed car, the Ilinga. The car was not yet in production, and these tyres were newly released in the US, and no-one else was using them here. I figured that if I had one of them, I could fit it under the bonnet of the Bolwell. So I rang the Goodrich factory and asked if I could buy one. I was put through to the Australian product development manager who said he would add one to the next order that Ilinga placed. But Ilinga never ordered more, so the guy at Goodrich eventually added one to a few that they airfreighted over from the US for their local R&D department. When it arrived I was told to go to a specific tyre service with my rim, and they would fit it for me. After this was done, I asked how much it cost and the tyre fitter told me that he was told there was no charge; for the fitting or the tyre. That wouldn't happen these days, would it.
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