Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Six-cylinder]

Would you find one if these offensive? Would need to carefully paint the bezel black:

 

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/motorsport/gauges-auxiliary/smiths-flight-electrical-water-temperature-gauge

 

But it should work well with a modern sender.

It looks good on its own, but not for one out of a set of four.

[Six-cylinder]

Uncertain future for this one.

[Split_Pin]

It looks tidy, what's up with it?

[Six-cylinder]

It looks tidy, what's up with it?

Head gasket and it is engine out on those.

[quicksilver]

There's some strange forces at work here - you bought a Kettle-series MG and now you're reporting OMGHGF but on a Citroen?! That's the ex Hairnet car isn't it? Who owns it now? I've lost track.

[Six-cylinder]

There's some strange forces at work here - you bought a Kettle-series MG and now you're reporting OMGHGF but on a Citroen?! That's the ex Hairnet car isn't it? Who owns it now? I've lost track.

It is the ex Hairnet car, I bought it from JohnK who did not have time to fix it. I trailered it down from Middlesborough yesterday. Its future is uncertain because I don't think it is economical to have the work done, but it would be very useful and cost effective if I broke it for spares.

 

My MG ZR has no head-gasket problems at all, now this is asking for it!

[Split_Pin]

I presume this is the case with all PSA suitcase engines?

[JohnK]

Hope you had an uneventful journey back Chris and apologies again that I couldn't be there. Would be a shame if it gets broken but equally at least it would be getting some use as opposed to sat on my drive on the list of projects needing work.

[Six-cylinder]

I presume this is the case with all PSA suitcase engines?

Yes 1124 cc

[holbeck]

I don't think it is economical to have the work done.

 

 

Where is the real 6-cylinder?

[Six-cylinder]

Where is the real 6-cylinder?

The limit has been reached!

 

Under restoration/major works now –

 

1985 Range Rover

1971 BMW 3.0S

MG Metro Mk1

Peugeot 504 cab

Citroen LNA

Citroen Visa GT

 

Already on the list

 

Alfa Giulietta

Daimler Sovereign, poss 2!

 

Then there is the bit of work list......

 

And the maintenance/MOT List.....

[Six-cylinder]

Hope you had an uneventful journey back Chris and apologies again that I couldn't be there. Would be a shame if it gets broken but equally at least it would be getting some use as opposed to sat on my drive on the list of projects needing work.

Now I can tell you the rest of the Visa collection story, 400 miles towing all very straight forward. Unloading perfect.

 

Then it all went wrong! I did not have the energy to disconnect the trailer from the car, turn it by hand and reconnect it to leave the yard, so decided to charge across the grass field and straight out of the gate. Foot down hard only 200 feet of grass and I made it but the last 20ft! It is now dark the Xantia is just digging itself a hole. Usual stuff builders bag under the wheels and it was just going deeper. I did not have keys to the tool shed so could not dig a way out or keys to any of the equipment such as the Digger! There is a fully working and legal car but again I did not have the keys, enough phone a friend for a lift home.

 

Today I went to recover it on my own as nobody was free to help, the plan was to just give it a pull with my Range Rover. That fell at the first hurdle as the tow eye is screw in and the access panel is wedged into the mud. Luckily I remembered Xantias will get up in the air if asked, next where is the eye noware to be seen so I guess under the car in the spare wheel over the pool of water and mud, non problem I will just use the Rover 75 one that is easy to get too, no just luck wrong thread! Anyway it went on for a while but in the end I did connect it the Range Rover that was on hard standing. Barely off idle and the stuck Xantia complete with trailer came out of the field, the Xantia needs a wash now!

[hairnet]

gt bits to fix the super

 

ps ZOMG

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That's a shame about hairnets visa. It's the sort of thing I find myself taking pity on. I guess though that with all your other Visas and LNA's you can probably recycle almost all of it single handedly right?

[Six-cylinder]

I guess though that with all your other Visas and LNA's you can probably recycle almost all of it single handedly right?

This is the plan, the GT needs some floors panels that are just not available elsewhere.

[Supernaut]

A Xantia getting stuck in your field?

 

That sounds oddly familiar for some reason...

[Guest Breadvan72]

Those shenanigans with the trailer are just the sort of thing that I would do.

[worldofceri]

Those shenanigans with the trailer are just the sort of thing that I all of us would do.

 

(But not all of us might admit to...)!

[Six-cylinder]

(But not all of us might admit to...)!

Just shows how comfortable I am here on this forum.

[Six-cylinder]

Great news today my Yellow Peril the MG ZR has passed its MOT with no advisories, now MOTed until 4th March 2018.

 

It needed a number plate, 3 bulbs and a CV boot. I have also had it serviced. The garage owner collected me in it for the 5 miles to his workshop so I could take it home and it petered to a halt on the road side, neg battery lead had fallen off!

 

In spite of the breakdown he went on to say it was in excellent condition and as I know, drives very well.

[hairnet]

dont bring it to cannock the locals will think it an auction item

[Six-cylinder]

A little car progress today, my friend Ian came over and we stripped the seats, carpets and other trim out of the Visa GT to properly inspect the rust damage. A lot of work, but no more than I was expecting. The next stage is to get it booked with the guy Ian has coerced into welding it for me.

 

Having finished our floor inspection Ian asked me if the GT had been started in my ownership, I told him it was fine because I had checked and the engine is not locked. There was a glint in his eye I would have thought was reserved for his lovely wife and young family, but no his heart lay with getting the Visa started!

 

The only battery I had on site was the LNA so we connected it and the engine spun over but did not fire. We poured a small amount of petrol down each carburetor and it ran, we guessed the fuel was not being drawn from the tank, but a check revealed it was. The conclusion was the fuel is several years old and needs draining, now Ian has booked a day off work tomorrow to get the GT running!

[hairnet]

PERVERET

[richardmorris]

^

I think he's just a glutton for punishment. But it takes all sorts as they say

[Six-cylinder]

We returned to The Visa GT today and found the tank 1/2 full of completely stale fuel/crud but did not have time to drop the tank. So cleaned out the fuel line by pumping fresh fuel though with pick up in a can, then drained the carbs and pumped fresh fuel though. It now starts and runs but sometimes won’t rev and cuts out. I think the carbs need removing and cleaning properly.

 

Unfortunately the exhaust fell off once we got the car running!

 

Pushing the car back to its parking space the conversation went something like this:

 

Chris what have we run into?

Nothing Ian you have just turned the wheel the wrong way.

No I have not, come and look at my wheel.

O-dear!

[hairnet]

Moog will sort you ( not that one)

[Six-cylinder]

In other Visa news 17RD has a new MOT and serviced. It was collected today, then driven around Milton Keynes like an ordinary car!

[Six-cylinder]

As is quite usual my working day had been punctuated by car stuff today.

 

I helped my friend refit the last door on our Bi-Turbo this morning.

 

The Auto electrician came at lunch time to sort the wipers on the Sovereign, he had previously tried to repair the wiper motor as a brush was stuck but could not make it work when he refitted it. He asked me to get a s/h replacement which I did and that did not work either. He then found the corroded terminal block. We now have wipers and a good s/h wiper motor to sell!

 

Next was our Volvo V70 T5 that is in storage and has been a non starter for a while now, that turned out to be the ignition fuse had blown. He thinks the most likely reason is when jump starting the car previously.

 

I used the E reg Visa diesel to get myself to storage and stopping at my friend’s house to collect the storage keys. I found the glow plug light stuck on when I came away. As I had the Auto electrician about I had him check it and sure enough it was feeding the glow plugs permanently. He pulled the plug off for me to get home and some time ago I broke a Visa diesel and had a rely box. The bad new is it broke the power lead stud undoing it on the replacement, so now it is on one thread, no washer and some araldite!

 

Wish me luck I am going to a Triumph meeting in it tonight in Bicester!

[richardmorris]

I have to say that the Gt does look like a rotten pear.

[Six-cylinder]

I have to say that the Gt does look like a rotten pear.

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