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Post by stirlingmg on Oct 6, 2020 20:15:15 GMT
Well that was short lived.........after last week’s speedo fix & extensive road testing, it stopped working again. Tonight was the first chance I’ve had to look at it & the angle drive I “refurbished” was the cause of the issue, the banking plate, shim & thrust plate had made good their escape from the body of the drive, thus allowing the gear to jump out of mesh, I just mustn’t have staked it enough, but as luck would have it the bits had landed on the crossmember so I was able to pop it all back together.
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Post by stirlingmg on Oct 7, 2020 21:10:49 GMT
Tonight I have connected up my Javelin Ambassador, I had fitted it months ago in place of the broken modern radio my car came with, but I never got round to the difficult task of connecting the live & the speaker wires😆 I managed to get 3 quite strong MW stations & 1 LW, it lights up as well. The rear speaker doesn’t work so I need to look at that, I suspect the wiring isn’t connected as the car appears to have possibly had an amplifier fitted which is no longer there. I also fitted my replacement front picnic table/tool kit mounting frame complete with release lever, the lever was missing on my old one. Also the alternator charge light unit had been bypassed when I bought the car, so I put it back to standard. The reason became apparent when I had the engine out, it is fitted with the wrong alternator. I’ve not been 100% happy with the charging since I got the car back on the road, to get the charge light off required a blip of over 2500 rpm which is not good at 20 past 7 in the morning. So I reinstated the bypass & it is spot on. I will eventually put the whole lot back to standard.
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Post by Steed on Oct 12, 2020 16:41:07 GMT
oh no...... I want that now!
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Post by dmaxwell on Oct 12, 2020 18:49:50 GMT
Well, I finally got my engine (a chevy 4.3L V6) back from the rebuilder and started to reassemble it. Descovered that the pilot bushing was missing from the back end of the crankshaft (pilot bushing is what the transmission shaft rests in to support it, not sure if your side of the pond calls them that or not). Now, I have a spare bushing in my garage somewhere, but can not find it! So I spent the weekend putting everything else back on the engine, exhaust manifolds, carb, had to modify the air filter holder so it wouldn't rub against the top of the distributor (without the wires plugged in!), mounted the distributor, screwed in the fitting for the oil pressure gauge that I'm fitting instead of the idiot light sensor (though I may do both). Inbetween all this, I did a little work on the '63 Dodge D200 truck and cleaned out my 2004 Ford Focus that is going to the wreakers in a few weeks (it finally died on my way home from work on Tuesday and I had to take Wednesday off from work to tow it home as the Auto Club refused to tow it home (after making me wait for 5 hours!). Hoping to get the front seats back from the upholsters this week and then it just waiting for the front calipers and rear brake shoes to be relined to get it all done!
David California
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Post by stirlingmg on Oct 12, 2020 20:21:22 GMT
Well after another speedo failure (angle drive snapped it’s cable again), I do believe I’ve finally cracked it. I cobbled up yet another angle drive using the best bits of the broken ones, made up another input cable & have used the car for a few days, covering about 250 miles yesterday & it is still working🙂 Following my charging system repair the indicators started flashing ridiculously fast, they always were a bit quick anyway, so I bought a new flasher unit, I fitted it in my lunch break today & the speed of the flash is now perfect but I’m very disappointed in the plink plonk, it just hasn’t got that classic sound which has always amused me with the old Hotwire flasher units, I’ll stick with road legal as opposed to amusing though😆
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Post by tarnowl on Oct 16, 2020 14:21:21 GMT
Well, she's off on her way for a bit of pampering. Getting rid of all those rusty rotten bits and replacing them with new metal. It'll be a long job, but the time has come to 'Grasp the Nettle'. All bits bagged and boxed awaiting her return. Take care......
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Post by stirlingmg on Oct 17, 2020 7:49:45 GMT
Yesterday’s project was getting the rear speaker working through the rear volume controller, as I suspected it simply wasn’t wired in, I rewired it & also used a door speaker from a 75 to replace the tired one that was under the shelf. I also chopped out a load of extra wiring from the now defunct alarm system & modern sound system that had been fitted at some point. I also attempted to get the carpet to sit nicer on the rear of the tunnel but failed, also I wanted to get the rear heater console to sit flush with the carpet but failed there as well.
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Post by Sam Bee on Oct 20, 2020 17:50:13 GMT
My front suspension almost finished, and steering rods in place. Just the brake pads and anti-roll bar in the morning, then the wheels can go on for the first time in over 2 years. Attachment Deleted
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Post by Sam Bee on Oct 20, 2020 18:12:55 GMT
The euphoria has gotten to me!! In fact it is only 19 months.
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Post by stirlingmg on Oct 20, 2020 21:11:15 GMT
Wow you’re certainly going for it there Sam, looks fantastic & I like your cross drilled discs
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2020 8:54:52 GMT
Finally got the bonnet gaps as I wanted them Probably the tenth attempt,the bonnet has always rested on the heater,it was high at the back and annoyed the hell out of me. I started from scratch,took the hinges off and straightened them,welded the rib where the hinges bolt to the bonnet which were weak and using a wooden former replicated the curve of the front panel on the top of the bonnet by bending the bonnet placing it upside down on sand bags. Since taking the photo Ive moved the grill up about a quarter of an inch (I dont do metric) and mounted it on rubber. Ive also taken off the front suspension top links and freed off the metalastic bushes.
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Post by enigmas on Oct 24, 2020 9:08:41 GMT
"I don't do metric." Very amusing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2020 9:22:38 GMT
"I don't do metric." Very amusing. Well,feet and inches were good enough for Brunel,Telford,Stephenson and countless other brilliant engineers so they are plenty good enough for me! I still remember my old foreman,who when he was told we were going to embrace the metric system went round cutting off two inches from the end of the metal rulers. Turning them into 'metric' ten inch versions.
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Oct 24, 2020 9:45:03 GMT
Well done Kev Speaking of metric my old friend ran the engineering WS in one of the colleges (he hated metric but the younger engineers were all for it ) took the WS clock down and took it home then painted the dial 1 to 10 put it back and waited it was a day before anyone noticed I have two lathes one metric and the other imperial and my miller is metric when I got the miller it was both!! so that had to be altered!
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Post by enigmas on Oct 24, 2020 11:27:58 GMT
It's interesting that whenever I measure components, assemble engines, machines or the like, I do it all in imperial...moreso in thousands of an inch, which is kind of metric when you think about the divisions. It just makes more sense to me when using a set of verniers, micrometers or dial gauge. Fractions of a millimeter are confusing to my way of thinking. Although if I'm doing woodwork, moreso framing or building, I tend to use metric to the millimeter...it just seems more straight forward than fractions, although I can use both as the systems overlapped for baby boomers!
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Post by stirlingmg on Oct 24, 2020 20:30:43 GMT
A lad I went to school with was born on decimal day, he could fit his fist in his mouth, we always said he was a fraction too small
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Post by dmaxwell on Oct 26, 2020 18:45:28 GMT
Well, I finally got the transmission mated to the engine and the assembly bolted in the car! Always interesting when you're installing something that wasn't intended to installed. I had made some motor mount adaptors to use the P5 front motor mounts on the frame to adapt to the Chevy 4.3L engine mounts. Got the water pump installed along with the alternator too. Next weekend I should be able to get the wiring hooked up and maybe the recovered front seats installed (they look fantastic, the people at the upholstery place do wonderful work!). I just need to get the front calipers and relined rear brake shoes back and I'll have all I need to finish the car. I figure by Thanksgiving (in the US the fourth Thursday of Nov.) I should be able to take it out for a test drive (I really hope!!!!!).
David California
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Post by enigmas on Oct 26, 2020 21:53:47 GMT
Some pictures of this conversion would be interesting David.
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Post by dmaxwell on Oct 27, 2020 18:30:33 GMT
I'll see what I can come up with over this coming weekend.
David California
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Post by Steed on Oct 27, 2020 19:48:18 GMT
....yes please...
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Post by Sam Bee on Oct 28, 2020 20:30:50 GMT
I cleaned up my wiper wheel boxes, tubes and cable. There were rubber grommets above the wheel boxes in the scuttle cutouts which have perished - anyone any ideas on replacements or is it resort to mastic? Attachment Deleted
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Post by Phil Nottingham on Oct 29, 2020 6:36:40 GMT
Mastic is better
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Post by Brendan69 on Oct 29, 2020 9:44:02 GMT
Said hello to my P5B, Roller and Vespa Scooter today. I plan to get them all out soon for a drive before winter sets in on us but i need to get my recent new toy fixed first as its blocking the garage door way. 2002 P38 Range Rover 2.5 TD Westminster. Once she is sorted she will be a minter i am sure.
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Post by velvet on Oct 29, 2020 10:06:28 GMT
Completed this P5 seat that is going in a Ron Arad frame (industrial designer). He made about 100 of them in the eighties, he exhibited in the barbican art gallery, and new yorks museum of modern art amongst others and the concept has even been used on Top Gear ! Although most of the seats used were from a P6 i think the P5 seat is far more adapt and make a great 'Man-Cave' addition! Attachment Deleted
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Post by dmaxwell on Nov 2, 2020 15:15:01 GMT
Well, I got some things done this weekend, tightened up the exhaust pipes to the manifolds, bolted on the coil, coil resister and wired them up partially. Installed an oil pressure gauge and Tach under the instrument cluster (hope the picture attaches!). Descovered that although I did mark most of the wires and where they go, I can not find the 12V to the coil, the lead to the water temp gauge sensor or the backup light lead to the transmission. Might have to do a manual trace from the instrument cluster to the end of the wires! PLus the cutch slave cylinder leaks terribly, tried honing it out but no change so I'll be ordering a new one! Always something. I've added a couple of pictures, enjoy! David California Attachments:
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