Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Six-cylinder]

I collected the Maestro with a fresh MOT today.

It needed a small hole in the sill welded , the tracking done and the choke idle reduced.

It runs nicely , but they never added a 5th gear!

[richardmorris]

2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I collected the Maestro with a fresh MOT today.

It needed a small hole in the sill welded , the tracking done and the choke idle reduced.

It runs nicely , but they never added a 5th gear!

Four speed in 1989?

[Six-cylinder]

The other job for today was a fitting the JCB tyre.

@Talbotmessaged me this morning to say he was willing to give fitting the tyre he nursed down from the north a go this afternoon. A quick rearrangement of the day and we were at it, yes all right Talbot did the hard work but I gathered the stuff together and held the camera!

It all went well except one problem Talbot could not see where he was going due to the failure of out contracted digger window cleaner @beko1987!

[richardmorris]

How did you break the bead and get the new one on?

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

How did you break the bead and get the new one on?

Club hammer to break the bead and then tyre levers and crowbar to get the tyre off.

[richardmorris]

2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Club hammer to break the bead and then tyre levers and crowbar to get the tyre off.

Sounds fun! Keeping you warm in the end of November anyway.

[Talbot]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

How did you break the bead and get the new one on?

Tubed tyre.  The tyre was almost a lose fit on the rim and the rim has a reasonable amount of rust on it, meaning it wasn't so much "break the bead" as "push the tyre off".  The worst aspect of the job was the fact that both the old and the replacement tyre are fairly elderly, meaning the rubber is quite hard and hence fights you all the way.

Also not having any brakes on the front axle made levering a little "interesting"  I would have taken the wheel off, but I think that would have taken longer than just doing it in situ... the studs and nuts look fused with rust.

I did exactly the same on my 9X16 FC land-rover tyres a good few years ago, so I knew it was possible.

[Mrs6C]

@Slowsilver Please let MrsSlowsilver know that the 'car creeper cushion' performed an excellent job today, keeping Talbot insulated from the chilly ground and comfortable while he took the tyre off the JCB! 🙂

[adw1977]

19 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Four speed in 1989?

Still four speed in late 1990 if you went for a bottom of the range 1.3:

Full brochure

 

[dollywobbler]

Good stuff. That JCB needs some working wipers! That'd do it.

[loserone]

Crikey, well done @Talbot!

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, adw1977 said:

Still four speed in late 1990 if you went for a bottom of the range 1.3:

Full brochure

 

How depressingly unadvanced.

[Six-cylinder]

24 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

How depressingly unadvanced.

In 1990 I had a brand new Volvo 240 DL company car, 4 speed and carburettor!

[Mrs6C]

4 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

In 1990 I had a brand new Volvo 240 DulL company car, 4 speed and carburettor!

FTFY!

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, Mrs6C said:

FTFY!

I got it to tow my race car!

[hairnet]

need pic of six cyl in racing suit plz

 

[richardmorris]

34 minutes ago, hairnet said:

need pic of six cyl in racing suit plz

 

Pervert.

[Talbot]

2 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

JCB needs some working wipers

I did briefly look at the front 4-bar-chain wiper and wonder if there was any chance of it working.  Then realised it's completely siezed.... so that'll be a "no" then.

First thing it could do with is some working brakes.  Piloting something that big and heavy that can do quite as much damage as it can with no working brakes to speak of is mildly worrying.

[wuvvum]

I had a 1995 Citroën AX which had a 4-speed 'box.

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

I got it to tow my race car!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jQ_bOP0HfY

*puts nerd away

 

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, wuvvum said:I had a 1995 Citroën AX which had a 4-speed 'box.

Even more depressing. I know I have a four speed 2cv,  but it’s not exactly modern. Mind you one of the founder members of the Thames Tortoises 2cv group I run was know as Pam the 3rd as she had her car for 6months before realising it had a 4th gear!

[dollywobbler]

12 hours ago, richardmorris said:

How depressingly unadvanced.

Says the owner of a car that was in production until 1990, has kingpins, a feeble attempt at a heater and the crash protection of a wet paper bag. 😉

[dollywobbler]

10 hours ago, Talbot said:

I did briefly look at the front 4-bar-chain wiper and wonder if there was any chance of it working.  Then realised it's completely siezed.... so that'll be a "no" then.

First thing it could do with is some working brakes.  Piloting something that big and heavy that can do quite as much damage as it can with no working brakes to speak of is mildly worrying.

Yes, I have tried that wiper myself. Sad times.

My 11-year old stepson didn't have an issue with the lack of brakes. 😉

[Six-cylinder]

12 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I had a 1995 Citroën AX which had a 4-speed 'box.

You are right, I was still selling them in 1996 after Saxo launch.

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, dollywobbler said:

Yes, I have tried that wiper myself. Sad times.

You have missed my birthday so I guess I need a go fund me page to get a wiper of my digger!

[Talbot]

3 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

My 11-year old stepson didn't have an issue with the lack of brakes. 😉

Could that be due to his lack of appreciation of the utter carnage that thing could do if it fails to stop when needed to?    circa 7 tonnes with two large spikes sticking out the front and zero braking scares the willies out of me, and I'm not one to normally get all "H&S" about anything.  Those forks would go straight through anyone or anything in it's way.  I drove it in 2nd/3rd gear at barely above idle (IE walking pace), with my hand on the lever ready to shove the forks into the ground as an impromptu anchor, just in case it all went wrong.

The lack of any directional accuracy due to the front wheel nuts being about 1/2" loose (and siezed in position) just adds to the hilarity* of driving it.

[worldofceri]

I think most adult tractor/digger operators have a lack of appreciation of the utter carnage they could cause if they fail to stop when needed.

See OMG epic construction fails on Teh Internet for details.

[dollywobbler]

To be fair, we were driving it very slowly around the main field. I have driven it through that tight section though, and it does focus the mind.

[Mrs6C]

Mostly the JCB sports a front bucket rather than forks; they were put on for the scrap Gamma loading episode, I think.

It certainly wouldn't hurt it to have working brakes. We have the right size die now to get the wheel studs cleaned up and a socket of the correct size for the wheelnuts, so the front hubs can get some TLC in due course.

[wuvvum]

Brakes are overrated.  The tractor doesn't really have any brakes either and nobody's crashed that yet.