Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - Love for a member of the collection.

[Six-cylinder]

A picnic  in mid September! 

Today was a Citroen Picnic in remembrance of Andrew Brodie a well know Citroen figure who specialised in SM's. He passed away 9 years ago.

Coats on, 15 of us sat in a field at Harrold Odell Country Park. We had 8 Citroens and some other non Citroens. We got to eat lunch, then around 2.30 pm the rain arrived.

The last picture was on way home in one of my favourite photo spots, but it was between down pours and dull so no sparkle to the photo. 

The bad news, the heavy use of the Ami wipers today has caused them break and now they have 6 inches of play and reverse at random places making a banging noise.

 

[hairnet]

21 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

 

The bad news, the heavy use of the Ami wipers today has caused them break and now they have 6 inches of play and reverse at random places making a banging noise.

 

 

but it never rains in da sowf

[Dobloseven]

Somehow most car related outings seem to involve food!

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, Dobloseven said:

Somehow most car related outings seem to involve food!

It is a problem!

Last weekend was Milton Keynes Classic club at a Brewery Friday night, breakfast with MK Modern Classic's Saturday morning and breakfast with the Milton Keynes Mini Club Sunday morning, so light this weekend with just one picnic.

[hairnet]

but we never get invited

[Six-cylinder]

19 minutes ago, hairnet said:

but we never get invited

Next week, Tuesday is  local Triumph club evening, Local Classic meet Wednesday night at Deanshanger and Thursday is a Local Citroen club meeting, you are welcome to come along. 

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

making a banging noise.

I take it that's not in a good way? 😀

[Six-cylinder]

Tonight was a local meeting at the Beehive, Deanshanger. winter has come and not too many cars this evening.

I took my Fiat Seicento this evening because I did not fancy driving the Rolls Royce in the dark with 36w headlights and my Citroen Ami 8 has a problem with its wipers and it was raining lightly when I left home.

[barrett]

On 14/09/2025 at 17:52, Six-cylinder said:

The bad news, the heavy use of the Ami wipers today has caused them break and now they have 6 inches of play and reverse at random places making a banging noise.

Sounds terminal, I'm happy to take it off your hands to save you any more heartache

[Six-cylinder]

Today was a change of flavour day from our 1974 Citroen Ami 8 Break to our 1968 Morris 1300 2 door.

The motivation was two fold, the wipers on the Ami were broken and 28^th Sep is BL day at Milton Keynes Museum and I am planning to take the Morris and wanted to make sure the 1300 is running well before then.

The good news is with Slowsilver’s help we fixed the wipers on the Ami. After getting advice from the Citroen community, I got the dash apart to access the wiper motor and as I suspected the motor was falling off its mounting. One bolt had fallen out completely and the other was loose. Difficult to reach but after many swear words, we got the motor screws fixed back in.

[richardmorris]

Faithful old retainer looking more like Lurch every day! The good thing with 2cv and Ami etc. is that they are quite simple ( if not easy access) to work on.

 

ps. Do feel free to send me pics and instructions for the Ami repair. I need stuff for the Citroenian.

[hairnet]

On 14/09/2025 at 17:52, Six-cylinder said:

 

 they have 6 inches of play and reverse at random places making a banging noise.

its the squirrels trying to escape

[Six-cylinder]

Yesterday Morris  got a run out to the Loose alliance breakfast at the London Gliding Club Dunstable.

It really is a delightful little car.

 

[richardmorris]

The scimitar looks good.

[Six-cylinder]

Today was a visit to a car friend who wanted a Ride out in the Rolls Royce. First time on a Motorway, just a short distance but cruises great on the Motorway.  The 20/25 comfortably climbs Aston hill (A40 road up the Chiltern escarpment) in top gear. 

We then invaded Thame  @beko1987 where I was relegated to Ocado delivery vehicle! 77 miles today and it runs beautifully.

[hairnet]

so much tart

[richardmorris]

15 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Today was a visit to a car friend who wanted a Ride out in the Rolls Royce. First time on a Motorway, just a short distance but cruises great on the Motorway.  The 20/25 comfortably climbs Aston hill (A40 road up the Chiltern escarpment) in top gear. 

We then invaded Thame  @beko1987 where I was relegated to Ocado delivery vehicle! 77 miles today and it runs beautifully.

If you're giving lifts to friends who want a ride, I am sure my neighbours would be delighted to see it!

[Mrs6C]

3 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

If you're giving lifts to friends who want a ride, I am sure my neighbours would be delighted to see it!

Do you think the folk up at the big house would let us recreate the opening sequence from To the Manor Born?

 

[richardmorris]

10 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

Do you think the folk up at the big house would let us recreate the opening sequence from To the Manor Born?

Well this is the entrance you can use. 

10 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

 

 

[Weird Car]

@Six-cylinder can we have some Error404 news please? 😌

haven't heard anything about it in a while 

[Six-cylinder]

51 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

If you're giving lifts to friends who want a ride, I am sure my neighbours would be delighted to see it!

Giving a ride to friends is no problem, but they need to come to me as I am not comfortable traveling far from home at the moment. 

I guess it will only be a month before it is put away for the winter.

[Six-cylinder]

35 minutes ago, Weird Car said:

@Six-cylinder can we have some Error404 news please? 😌

haven't heard anything about it in a while 

This year not much had happened with getting cars out of storage to use or traveling very far from home as I have not felt up to it. Hence no FoD open weekends.

This has meant error 404 has not moved. As far as know the only thing it really needs is a brake servo. As these are very expensive it has been suggested I just plumb in a generic servo and that seems a good idea.

[Zelandeth]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

This year not much had happened with getting cars out of storage to use or traveling very far from home as I have not felt up to it. Hence no FoD open weekends.

This has meant error 404 has not moved. As far as know the only thing it really needs is a brake servo. As these are very expensive it has been suggested I just plumb in a generic servo and that seems a good idea.

Assume rebuilding the original isn't on the cards or that's what would already have been done.  I do remember it looking a really, really odd arrangement when I saw it.  

What sort of setup are you looking for?  Imagine a remote servo would probably be the easiest to retrofit as the bits you're having to fit to stuff that can't be moved are small and easily manipulated, and the servo itself can just be stuck anywhere it fits easily.  Don't recall space really being at a premium in there, but do admit it's been a while!

[Six-cylinder]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Assume rebuilding the original isn't on the cards or that's what would already have been done.  I do remember it looking a really, really odd arrangement when I saw it.  

What sort of setup are you looking for?  Imagine a remote servo would probably be the easiest to retrofit as the bits you're having to fit to stuff that can't be moved are small and easily manipulated, and the servo itself can just be stuck anywhere it fits easily.  Don't recall space really being at a premium in there, but do admit it's been a while!

The brakes worked fine and I could even lock them if needed, but were very dead and heavy feeling.

The servo was/is available at 400 euros + tax + shipping.

It is a while since I have looked as well, I was told it was just a case of finding vacuum connectors that matched up and some new brake pipes. I guess some sort of bracket will also be needed.

[Zelandeth]

Looks like it already is a remote servo then which makes life a bit easier as you can leave the master cylinder alone beyond likely replacing that somewhat crusty looking line.  I'd forgotten this had that absurdly huge vacuum accumulator in the engine bay.

Does look to be a hydraulic brake light switch there so you would need to include a suitable T for that - but there's a bunch of common cars used that setup (Beetle to name one) so it's not critical to use the original one.

[Six-cylinder]

38 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Looks like it already is a remote servo then which makes life a bit easier as you can leave the master cylinder alone beyond likely replacing that somewhat crusty looking line.  I'd forgotten this had that absurdly huge vacuum accumulator in the engine bay.

Does look to be a hydraulic brake light switch there so you would need to include a suitable T for that - but there's a bunch of common cars used that setup (Beetle to name one) so it's not critical to use the original one.

Also Triumphs and Jaguars have hydraulic brake light switches.

[hairnet]

https://www.bestpartstore.co.uk/peugeot/404-1963/6697/10125-brake-booster

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

https://www.bestpartstore.co.uk/peugeot/404-1963/6697/10125-brake-booster

Non of those look like mine.

[Zelandeth]

3 hours ago, hairnet said:

https://www.bestpartstore.co.uk/peugeot/404-1963/6697/10125-brake-booster

Hmm...AutoDoc's parts lookup system for a car more than ten years old, I'd trust anything it's suggesting about as far as I can throw it.

The ones on that page (based on about 10 pixel wide images anyway (I'm on my phone, and that website is aggressively mobile unfriendly) all look to be local rather than remote servos like the one on the car.

Again though, given my experience with them those photos mean absolutely nothing so it's not impossible one of them is right...but given what an utter arse returning anything to them is I'd want to be bloody sure before ordering anything from them.

[LightBulbFun]

14 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

Also Triumphs and Jaguars have hydraulic brake light switches.

Model 70's also for what thats worth, Lucas 34619, not like they have floor mounted foot pedals to activate a normal pedal switch