petermcpete

Hi chaps,

I've got a Mobylette which I'd like to carry around on the back of my 2cv like a proper Frenchy.

Any recommendations for bike racks that can fit on a towbar? Dave Cooper racks appear on Google, are they any good?

Could a mod change the title to wanted: MGB or similar?

Sadly he's not too keen on the above - looking for a bit less work, I think something with good bodywork would be ideal, but in need of some mechanical fettling.

Specifically he's keen on an MGB or similar - any of those knocking around on here or is it time to brave eBay or the like?

Cheers all, I will pass them on!

Hi shiters,

Got a friend who is interested in getting a car project - fancied an MGB but open to suggestions!

What have you got?

Yep, give Hagerty a call. They insured me a foreign car on the VIN number with no restrictions on timeframes to register.

I'd also suspect valves: you've changed all of the ignition system components to that plug, and you still have the same consistent problem.

 

Not hard on that engine to whip the rocker cover off and see what the clearances are on that cylinder.

 

However, if that plug is actually not sparking at idle then you've not found the ignition component causing the problem. I would go through changing the components one at a time again, methodically, and also try a different condenser if you have one.

 

Is the distributor body tightly clamped, ie can it be turned? Could the timing have slipped in that way?

OK. I'd still do the things I suggested in my previous post.

 

What's the battery like? Is the engine earth lead in good condition? Is the battery earth lead good?

The distributor cap? Each cylinder uses a different section of the cap - is the stud for that cylinder damaged?

 

If the points gap has closed up it MAY be that tolerances between the 4 cam lobes allow 3 sparks but not the fourth and just at low speeds?

 

Me? I'd check the valve clearances next.

Thanks all, I've checked the valve clearances and they all seem good.

 

It's got an electronic ignition, so no points gap to be checked.

 

I've tried a couple of spare dizzy caps, same end result.

 

All engine earth cables are good.

 

My thinking is it must be the grounding of the spark plug (based on the video below attached), as it fires when grounded elsewhere - but what can I do apart from clean the thread (which I've already done), try a different spark plug, check connection between HT lead and plug is good, check plug gap...? Confusion...

 

 

 

UPDATE: having written this out and waiting for a file to upload, I cleaned the plug holes again and cleaned the end connections on the leads...now it's all good! Took for a test drive and it quickly relapsed, but another clean and all good again...think I'll be replacing those leads (again)...

Thanks all and merry Christmas!

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Whoops - wrong one before - this is the engine at idle (occasionally fires).

Yes, I was thinking that there was something that was causing the distributor cam/points follower heel to ‘wobble’ at the same spot on each rotation.

With the engine running can you get the lead to the non-firing plug to spark? This would eliminate the ignition as being the source of the trouble.

Squirrel2

Yep - when the lead is swapped to a different plug, it fires every time. Just doesn't seem to like this plug/cylinder combo.

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Occasionally firing at idle.

 

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Fires when given a bit of revs.

Valve clearance closed up and not sealing? Is the head unleadified?

I'm using lead additive, but I don't think it's this, I think it's electrical - there's clearly no spark at idle, but there is at higher revs...

Is there any play in the distributor shaft? I.e. is it floating around and upsetting the points gap at idle?

 

Squirrel2

Seems alright - the rotor doesn't wobble if that's what you mean?

Try swapping the plug with one of the others........

Yep, done that, swapped with a plug from another cylinder - no luck.

I've taken the Toledo 150 miles south for Christmas, but am now faced with a bit of an issue.

 

As a present, the Toledo has given me 3 plugs firing, 1 plug not.

 

The engine (1296cc Spitfire MK4) has started misfiring at idle. It's only the one plug, and it seems to start firing at higher revs - I've had the spark plug light tester thing on it.

I've tried a few different plugs, a different HT lead and a different rotor and dizzy cap - but still exactly the same on that cylinder! Any ideas?

It's still drivable - I just have to not let the revs drop at junctions - but it's certainly not ideal!

MOT achieved!

 

Super rare Solex 6000 flash. Not cheap at £400 but you will win bragging rights as it is shaft drive and has a disc rear brake.IMG_6209.JPG

Runs and rides and will hopefully get a dating certificate this weekend ready to register it.

 

 

Atala Califfone - with MOT - £200 - Surrey -

 

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Very much a shed. But the PC50 donkey alone would sell for £60

Still has its number plate.

I've applied for a log book for the NVT but not the Novio.

 

Anyway £40 would buy the Novio off me if you or anyone else want it. The NVT frame and log book I'm keeping but it can be pillaged for bits.

Sent from my PRA-LX1 using Tapatalk

 

Thanks chaps, much appreciated. However I've decided to go for Junkman's Mobylette - it's a sexy beast and it'll fulfill my french mechanical fetish!

Will post an update here when it's collected and back on the road.

May have gone over the top with the pictures

 

 

Pre and post restoration/recommisioning (SORN from 2002-2015, many hours welding required)

 

Breakdown on way to first MOT

 

Changing the alternator belt by the side of a French motorway near Bordeaux

 

Some French landmarks

 

Off-roading part 1 - easy

 

Off-roading part 2 - stuck

 

The 900 mile weekend - Midlands to Ben Nevis and back

 

Peaks

 

The beast  with friends

£40 of your earth pounds would buy you a mostly all there but rough as a badgers arse 1970's Honda Novio with PC50 engine. And by rough I mean bloody rough.

I can get some photos tomorrow as its behind the NVT 50 in the shed

 

Sounds interesting, I like a challenge.

Where are you based, and do you know which parts are missing?

I've got an unjustifiable, unexplainable craving for a 'pedal and pop' type moped (Mobylette, Puch Maxi, Honda Camino etc), from the 60s/70s/80s to pooter about on.

 

Anyone on here got one that's not being use and fancy freeing up some space?

Not fussy on either a perfect one or one needing a bit of work...

 

Can you please add me as 4th in line, this looks amazing!

The clutch on the Porsche 924s I'd just bought wouldn't engage. I thought it was a problem with the actual clutch plate mechanism, so took it apart (gearbox, drivetrain out etc).

Took me a few weeks and turned out it was actually just the slave cylinder - an hour job and about £50. Oops...!

Me and a friend are potentially keen, I'd be in the 2cv or 924S (depending on which gets me in for free) and he'd be in the Triumph Toledo.

Well, we made it back to the Midlands, 1700 miles in 8 days going through 12 countries (Italy, Vatican City, San Marino, Switzerland, Liechenstein, Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland & England) with many issues along the way sorted out (with help from here much appreciated!). 

 

 

 

I'll do a proper write up soon, when recovered!

Are you nearly here yet?

In Bruges!

 

 

The bearings are holding up great, no heat whatsoever from them. The one pad on that side is now really ropey though, nothing left on it. Ferry back to England is tomorrow morning though, just going to nurse it back as I don't have the parts to fix it here.

Will update when back!

Spa 6 heures warm up, thankfully not competing but took it round for 6 laps and then had a slap up meal courtesy of the FBVA! Managed to practice my Franglais too.

 

Some great chod and non-chod there: