Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[dougiefourspeed]

Saloons are very rare, I have had my convertible for 5 years.

 

It is a M3 Evo, 321 bhp 6 speed manual and completely civilised.

They certainly are! I love the looks of these. Very understated by the standards of today. I’m very envious!

[Asimo]

Unlike for rattling Gamma, Fingers crossed.

[Six-cylinder]

Unlike for rattling Gamma, Fingers crossed.

 

You just had to remind me!

 

I am going to see my favourite garage tomorrow to see if they can do anything for me.

[hairnet]

sell beemer fix not rusty italian

[Mrs6C]

a flying Reliant came and landed next to me!

 

Here's a short video of this 'flying' - well, lifting off the ground using the rotors in an auto-gyro fashion, being towed behind another vehicle. It looks pretty good until it touches down again and falls over...

https://imgur.com/gallery/WdC8DV7

[Six-cylinder]

Here's a short video of this 'flying' - well, lifting off the ground using the rotors in an auto-gyro fashion, being towed behind another vehicle. It looks pretty good until it touches down again and falls over...

https://imgur.com/gallery/WdC8DV7

 

[hairnet]

Red gsa break

 

Please help

[Six-cylinder]

Red gsa break

 

Please help

 

Where do you need a lift too!

[hairnet]

i need money

 

i dont think hed wait that long - have travels to do first

 

lift is the very easy bit

[Six-cylinder]

My Mercedes W124 200TE heater has been sticking on and freeing for a year or so, but in April it became permanently stuck on full heat and the car became unbearable so I took it of the road for a quick fix. Finally today I took the duo value apart to clean it and was encouraged to fine some deposits on the internal parts. A clean up and reassembly, then disappointment just as before stuck on hot.

 

The man on Youtube says you should be able to hear the solenoids clicking when you take the power off but I can't. I now need to know when power is supposed to be at each connector terminal or just find a replacement valve to try.

[beko1987]

Can't you make it stick on cold then worry about it in September?

[Six-cylinder]

Can't you make it stick on cold then worry about it in September?

 

I guess I could, YouTube told me how to remove the cones to set it permanently on max heat!

 

At this time of year I can use my classics and don't need to drive it so it is a good time to fix it so it is ready for the autumn. I might even put it away until September when it is fixed.

[Mrs6C]

While he was doing that, I was off shopping for waterproof grease to service the hubs on our boat trailer...

 

The local marina chandlery had a couple of older motor cars in the car park, belonging to resident boat owners:

 

 

There was also this nice Ford Consul that was having a wax and polish...

 

Turned out it's a street-legal drag car, with a 402 small block Chevy V8 and supercharger...

 

The exhausts have removable plates in them to let the exhaust (and flames, apparently!) go straight down and out when it's running on a drag strip.

 

The owner offered to fire it up so obviously I said yes. It sounded very nice!

[Six-cylinder]

Following the saga of the Cadillac non starting it still has been out of use because the water pump belt tensioner is broken.

 

There is a plastic moulding tag that is expected to take the pressure of the large spring that tensions the belt and had broken. I had put a small bolt though it as a repair, but this had broken more of the plastic away and exited stage left. This time I inserted a small plate caught the remains of the broken tag and the good not used one the other side. We will see if this works, one day we will have to order a good used one but they are £120.

 

The test tomorrow is a local show at Turweston air field in Northants just 11 miles away.

 

(picture is of a good one I could buy, I was in such a rush to get to the pub last night I did not take any pictures)

[hairnet]

enoough of that

 

gamma update

[Mrs6C]

enoough of that

 

gamma update

Still locked away in a shed, in disgrace...

[Noel Tidybeard]

Still locked away in a shed, in disgrace...

 

what the gamma or cylinder?

[Six-cylinder]

My repair to the Cadillac water pump tensioner seems to be holding and it made it the show, an errand and home again.

 

I loved the variety this show produced Ginetta, Cadillac, MGB, kit, CF van, Ford.........

[Six-cylinder]

Looking for a photo today I found one I had forgotten about, The Vauxhall dealer I worked at for 3 years 1991-1994. I think this photo was taken Sep 1993. 

[quicksilver]

Now that brings back memories. I used to walk past that place all the time when I was at school. Look at all those Cavaliers, but I spy a Montego too.

[Six-cylinder]

Now that brings back memories. I used to walk past that place all the time when I was at school. Look at all those Cavaliers, but I spy a Montego too.

 

The group was mainly Rover dealers so we always had access to Rover products.  

[hairnet]

need a pic of you posing with a 740 in period

[RobT]

Looking for a photo today I found one I had forgotten about, The Vauxhall dealer I worked at for 3 years 1991-1994. I think this photo was taken Sep 1993. 

 

Heaven in Buckingham!  I'll have the £8,499 CDi Cav please.

[Six-cylinder]

need a pic of you posing with a 740 in period

 

I have the individual cars I got to use, but I don't think I have any of the either dealership.

[Mrs6C]

Looking for a photo today I found one I had forgotten about, The Vauxhall dealer I worked at for 3 years 1991-1994. I think this photo was taken Sep 1993. 

Isn't that your Astra convertible in the background? The one you insisted on putting in the garage, so that my Herald 13/60 convertible had to live outside?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Looking for a photo today I found one I had forgotten about, The Vauxhall dealer I worked at for 3 years 1991-1994. I think this photo was taken Sep 1993.

Compare and contrast....

[Schaefft]

Oh look, an Eldorado! If its a Northstar, how bad was it to replace the alternator belt pulley? I've got the instructions but it sounds like a total pita...

[Mrs6C]

Compare and contrast....

The Vauxhall dealership was housed in the old Buckingham cinema, which was a nice Art deco building. It was all demolished to make way for the new Sainsbury store, but the neat thing is that the store was designed to look like an Art Deco building that had been converted into a shop! It is a nice piece of architecture (and a decent store as well) that salutes the past admirably, even though it's entirely new-build.

[Mrs6C]

Oh look, an Eldorado! If its a Northstar, how bad was it to replace the alternator belt pulley? I've got the instructions but it sounds like a total pita...

It is a Northstar and it's the early tensioner pulley, with retaining bolts on the outside of a hefty bracket, which featured only on the 1993-94 model years. When the initial repair was done, it wasn't too hard to move the pulley into a position where I could slip the belt over it.

 

This time, there was a bit more tension on the spring, so it was harder to do. I looped an old electrical flex around the mended tensioner pulley and pulled on that to bring it into position, then pulled and pushed the grooved belt up and across until it was almost into place. Then I used another loop of insulated electrical wire around the belt itself to lift it slightly away from the tensioner pulley and skid it across to drop it into the pulley slots. When it was all lined up on that, I checked that it was straight and in the slots of the water pump and engine pulley wheels. Then I checked that there was some give in the longest side of the (now) triangular-shaped belt loop and that the tensioner pulley still moved freely, which it did.

 

It wasn't that hard, just a bit more awkward than before. I hope I don't have to do it again for a while!

[Six-cylinder]

Then and now