Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Floatylight]

53 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said:

Nothing planned so far,  got to get down there at some point this year!

Ditto!

[Six-cylinder]

@Andyrew visited this afternoon and said he would fix something for me so I gave him a list 3 pages long!

He choose my Morris 1300 which had started to misfire again, particularly after roundabouts. We cleaned the float chamber which was not bad, topped up the damper oil. Put in new plugs, HT leads and cleaned the points. It is great to win sometimes, not one misfire now.

[wuvvum]

On 19/06/2024 at 09:51, Six-cylinder said:

Yesterday I borrowed my friend's Triumph 2000 Estate fitted with a 2.5Pi engine for a TSSC meeting.

A Series 1 manual estate with a 2.5 PI engine is absolute peak Triumph 2000 for me.  (Unless we start getting into Stag engine conversions of course.)

[Six-cylinder]

Hay has been cut at the FoD. 

Rowing up today ready for bayling 

[Six-cylinder]

A tractor has laid eggs in the FoD! 

 

[hairnet]

Dugga dugga

Was heading from helens bay back to near the airport

At a set of lights and theres yer maun on a fergie going the other way on the dual carriageway

[Six-cylinder]

Yesterday morning the S1 Sovereign got a trip out to a local gathering but the car park was full so I parked in the road. A group member took this picture and it was used in the title shot of a 3 minute video of the event.

[Six-cylinder]

Thank you to @MrsJuular & @juular the Saab 95 now has its fuel tank fitted. It inches closer to returning to the road.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Six-cylinder said:

Yesterday morning the S1 Sovereign got a trip out to a local gathering but the car park was full so I parked in the road. A group member took this picture and it was used in the title shot of a 3 minute video of the event.

 

That's weird! Watched an edition of the Hotel Inspector last night where Alex revisited The Dukes, did wonder if it was near you!

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, High Jetter said:

That's weird! Watched an edition of the Hotel Inspector last night where Alex revisited The Dukes, did wonder if it was near you!

About 16 miles away, 1 gallon!

[hairnet]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

1 gallon!

of oil

[chaseracer]

Chris @Six-cylinder, did @Slowsilver get the Maxi handbook?

[MAF260]

8 hours ago, High Jetter said:

That's weird! Watched an edition of the Hotel Inspector last night where Alex revisited The Dukes, did wonder if it was near you!

We've always called it the Pukes after some unpleasant experiences there involving hygiene and terrible service 🤣

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Chris @Six-cylinder, did @Slowsilver get the Maxi handbook?

Yes he has.

[Six-cylinder]

20 minutes ago, MAF260 said:

We've always called it the Pukes after some unpleasant experiences there involving hygiene and terrible service 🤣

I have only ever had a bacon roll. Some of the guys commented there's had taken a long time to be prepared.

[Slowsilver]

16 hours ago, chaseracer said:

Chris @Six-cylinder, did @Slowsilver get the Maxi handbook?

Yes I did but wasn't sure who had kindly left it for me. Thank you.

[Six-cylinder]

Just because I can. 

 

[hairnet]

merc ftw

[Drumtochty]

Nice Merc and Volvo.

[Six-cylinder]

Today @Andyrew came over for a coffee and as usual I was in a better position by the time he left.

First he fitted a battery to the Mercedes E320 Coupe I had, as the original one failed over the weekend.

Then we went to storage to try and open the bonnet on the Renault 4 that has defeated me for 3 months. Andyrew performed the Heimlich Manoeuvre on the Renault and the bonnet popped open! Well not quite he just identified which knob opened the bonnet and which one adjusted the heater air direction!   

[Six-cylinder]

Today was the first move to get the Sigma back on the road.

The first cylinder head is off and shows no catastrophic damage.

Next week the mech will come back and lift the other head, fingers crossed.

[High Jetter]

Ah Gwan, how hard can it be?

[hairnet]

R4 want

[Six-cylinder]

15 hours ago, hairnet said:

R4 want

Needs wipers fixed.

[hairnet]

21 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Needs wipers fixed.

will move to arizona (or aylesbury)

[Zelandeth]

18 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Today was the first move to get the Sigma back on the road.

The first cylinder head is off and shows no catastrophic damage.

Next week the mech will come back and lift the other head, fingers crossed.

Oof, at least you can see where it's leaked pretty clearly.  I'd say likely the head was warped but know you had them checked.  Worth making absolutely sure the block is flat before anything goes back together.  

Let's hope it was just something daft but annoying like a flake of rust that settled in the wrong spot while it was being assembled that was responsible for it not sealing properly.

[Six-cylinder]

29 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Oof, at least you can see where it's leaked pretty clearly.  I'd say likely the head was warped but know you had them checked.  Worth making absolutely sure the block is flat before anything goes back together.  

Let's hope it was just something daft but annoying like a flake of rust that settled in the wrong spot while it was being assembled that was responsible for it not sealing properly.

I have never previously had the heads off. The problem stems from a rubber hose that runs cooling water through the oil filter housing leaking. Unfortunately I was on the A41 dual carriageway and by the time the temp gauge told me there was something wrong I still had 2/3 mile to get to a safe place to stop as there is no hard shoulder. The AA man put a hose on, but it was pumping water out of the header tank.

[Zelandeth]

1 minute ago, Six-cylinder said:

I have never previously had the heads off. The problem stems from a rubber hose that runs cooling water through the oil filter housing leaking. Unfortunately I was on the A41 dual carriageway and by the time the temp gauge told me there was something wrong I still had 2/3 mile to get to a safe place to stop as there is no hard shoulder. The AA man put a hose on, but it was pumping water out of the header tank.

Oh, my bad then.  I had in my head that this car had already had head gasket issues so they'd already been off.  Ignore me then!  Hopefully it will all be good with everything cleaned up, light skim if needed and fresh gaskets.

[Six-cylinder]

Yesterday @Slowsilver and @Andyrew came to help me extract the car most difficult to get out of storage. Thank you.

[Six-cylinder]

Today the Morris 1300 has been my car of choice and it is delightful to drive.

I have just topped the fuel tank after 183 miles and found it is doing 32.4 mpg.