Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - Another win today!

[adw1977]

4 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

I wonder how much I had left as I can’t find a fuel capacity for it.

45 litres = 9.9 gallons

April 1986 brochure

[Six-cylinder]

15 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

45 litres = 9.9 gallons

April 1986 brochure

Thanks that means I had 1.6 gallons left in the tank.

[High Jetter]

46 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

They are nice, certainly, but these on the Mk10 are even better...

I am ashamed at you, reposting such porn! 🤣 

My early years were defined by playing with proper switches such as those.

[Six-cylinder]

Last time I tried to use our Lancia Gamma it ran terribly. I have bought spark plugs, HT leads, distributor cap, rotor arm and coil. Today I arranged for a local mobile Mech to fit the parts. The only problem was his and my spark plug sockets would not fit into the cylinder head, the outer diameter is just a bit too big. I went home to get an old fashion box spark plug spanner, but all I could find was the extra long one for the recessed plugs on the Citroen DS which is far too long because it is a boxer engine. The answer was to saw the bit off that was in the way, but I need a new spark plug spanner for the DS now.

While I was away getting the spark plug spanner the mech fitted everything but the spark plugs and restarted the car, he said it run better but not well. Fitting the new spark plugs made it run well, but I did not take it out because the roads were so dirty a short test drive would have left the white car filthy. I am pretty sure it is now it is ready for it's next outing when the weather improves.

[Noel Tidybeard]

i'm beginning to wonder if the pipe on the fuel gauge thing is an urban myth

[Zelandeth]

4 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Last time I tried to use our Lancia Gamma it ran terribly. I have bought spark plugs, HT leads, distributor cap, rotor arm and coil. Today I arranged for a local mobile Mech to fit the parts. The only problem was his and my spark plug sockets would not fit into the cylinder head, the outer diameter is just a bit too big. I went home to get an old fashion box spark plug spanner, but all I could find was the extra long one for the recessed plugs on the Citroen DS which is far too long because it is a boxer engine. The answer was to saw the bit off that was in the way, but I need a new spark plug spanner for the DS now.

While I was away getting the spark plug spanner the mech fitted everything but the spark plugs and restarted the car, he said it run better but not well. Fitting the new spark plugs made it run well, but I did not take it out because the roads were so dirty a short test drive would have left the white car filthy. I am pretty sure it is now it is ready for it's next outing when the weather improves.

Great to hear it's running well again.  Wonder if it was something as simple as fouled plugs?

[Six-cylinder]

34 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

i'm beginning to wonder if the pipe on the fuel gauge thing is an urban myth

I think you could be right. 

Very few of my cars have ever been left hand fill. The most notable is the Volvo 740/940 and while left fill the hose illustration on the fuel gauge is on the right.

The C15 with left fill, but right illustration could easily be said to parts sharing with the Visa car that is right fill.

My 2016 Range Rovers does has an arrow in the fuel gauge pointing to the filler side.

[Six-cylinder]

20 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Great to hear it's running well again.  Wonder if it was something as simple as fouled plugs?

Yes the plugs were fouled and sooty due to moving it it around in storage without a run.

However it had the wrong coil on it that was obviously quite old, standard not electronic ignition coil that is factory standard on a Gamma.

The HT leads had also become hard and brittle with age.

[hairnet]

old italian cars oof