Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[Six-cylinder]

Sad Day!

 

I have said Good Bye to my Rover 114 SLi and left it all alone in a storage yard.

[dollywobbler]

My brain just can't compute the one-car driveway photo.

 

Just catching up a bit here. Those Bond pics are incredible!

[Six-cylinder]

My brain just can't compute the one-car driveway photo.

 

Just catching up a bit here. Those Bond pics are incredible!

 

The Sovereign was the outcast than nobody wanted at a Citroen show, but at the end of the day a couple of guys who helped me get Citroens home wanted a ride in it, so it did make it to the show ground.

[Noel Tidybeard]

- many shite point for not enough cxness

[Ghosty]

There are worse things to be letting go of than a glorified Metro!

[Six-cylinder]

The S1 Sovereign is progressing slowly, the latest hiccup being no n-s mainbeam and no o-s head light working.  I ending up calling the auto electrician and the short looms that serve each of the headlights and side light/indicator units are in a right state with broken wires and duff earth. I am now having made replacement looms before we try again.

[Six-cylinder]

My Lancia Gamma now has new rear shock absorbers. They are waiting for front brake pads to be delivered and a new fuel pump.

 

I dropped off my Mercedes 200TE for MOT today as I plan to use it this winter.

 

I collected my Vitesse with a fresh MOT today.

They also sorted the poor running that turned out to be large flakes of silver paint in the fuel line between the Mech pump and carbs. It runs very nicely now.

The other problem I had was a power on, power off twitch in the handling. They found this as well, it turned out to be a spilt in a rear outrigger where the radius arm attaches, not rusty just badly made.

It is filthy and I am taking it the Bicester Scramble on Sunday – Where is Beko when you need him!

[hairnet]

you said you werent gonna buy a range rover

[Six-cylinder]

you said you werent gonna buy a range rover

 

That's a sport and not mine.

[hairnet]

That's a sport and not mine.

riiiiiight

[Six-cylinder]

I have been working on the Stag today, both rear brakes were locked solid and after a lot of taping and prizing we were getting nowhere so after advice I got a larger hammer. The good news was I got the drums free from the shoes, the bad news is I broke one of the drums. The linings had bonded themselves to the drum with 10 years of standing still. The car now roles and the plan is to get the car home to rebuild the brakes.

 

 

We also started the “getting it started program” because it will be so hard to push it into position to load it onto a trailer. Stage 1 was to remove the fuel tank and drain it of old fuel which we have done and I pleased to report the boot floor is rust free.  

 

 

We pushed the car outside for the first time in 10 years and I am sure I saw it blink!

 

[Six-cylinder]

In coming!

 

So hands up all those who guessed it was me and I know Angus Toledo did.

 

I have had to wait 16 days for this to be ready for handover to me and keeping zipped has been hard.

 

There were some complaints that I jumped in too fast and did not give anybody else a chance, for the record it was 8 hours and 14 mins before I pressed the buy it button and you had all night to beat me to it!

[Six-cylinder]

It runs really well and just an exhaust blow to attend too.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I got it right! Bonny looking little thing! 

[richardmorris]

My feet don't fit ax pedals. They're worse than the X1/9.

[anonymous user]

Looking at this on my phone I thought that it was a Hare sat in the boot, disappointed to find it's a sagging boot lining.

[RichardK]

My feet don't fit ax pedals. They're worse than the X1/9.

 

 

I... I thought I was the only one...

 

(they're not even particularly big feet, but they're on at a weird angle).

[richardmorris]

I... I thought I was the only one...

(they're not even particularly big feet, but they're on at a weird angle).

 

Your feet or the pedals

[bramz7]

Meh, AX pedals work fine with me and Docs.....

 

Great meeting you Chris and glad you like the car! I think I'll miss it.

[Six-cylinder]

My favourite picture of the AX is as it was delivered this morning.

[SiC]

Looking at this on my phone I thought that it was a Hare sat in the boot, disappointed to find it's a sagging boot lining.

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Glad I wasn't the only one! I was flicking through and had to double take on it.

[richardmorris]

Meh, AX pedals work fine with me and Docs.....

Great meeting you Chris and glad you like the car! I think I'll miss it.

It is odd I grant you. But driving a friend's ax dimension ( s2 so maybe different), even wearing my fiat driving shoes I had to look down to check i had the correct pedal. The first time I went to change gear i came to a dead stop and stalled when I hit the brake not the clutch. I expect this would be overcome with familiarity.

[dougiefourspeed]

I was sorely disappoint to have missed out on the AX. But I’m glad it’s gone to a good home! Top work.

[bramz7]

It is odd I grant you. But driving a friend's ax dimension ( s2 so maybe different), even wearing my fiat driving shoes I had to look down to check i had the correct pedal. The first time I went to change gear i came to a dead stop and stalled when I hit the brake not the clutch. I expect this would be overcome with familiarity.

 

 

As an owner of an S1 the pedals are identical! The only big differences are the noise proofing and oddly, the ride quality.....

 

I'll admit, first time I drove an AX, I kept crunching the gears attempting to jam it into reverse. Turns out I had my foot on the brake and not the clutch. Never did that again.

[Six-cylinder]

Back on the Stag today, new fuel filter and the pump points cleaned and we had petrol to the carbs, but no spark. Just furry points so a good clean up and that was sorted. 

 

When we first turned the engine by hand we had removed the plugs and two of them were very stiff to remove, but had not taken there threads out with them. Today they would not screw in so we did not force them. We thought we would just give it a go and it started on SIX! The noise of the open too plugs frightened me and I shut it off. A couple more ginger goes and I put it in gear (auto) and it moved forward under its own power!

 

It felt like a great achievement and I have now ordered a M14 1.25 tap to clean the spark plug holes out for next time. 

[PhilA]

Nice! Good job on the Stag. Yes, a running engine minus a plug or two makes a huge racket.

 

Only car I've driven that was comparable to controls being designed not for humans was the Fiat Cinquecento, though I did somehow manage to drive that wearing Canadian snow boots. That was fun*

 

Phil

[Six-cylinder]

The Stag moves 30 miles!

 

Today I refitted the two missing spark plugs in the Stag, I had bought a 14mm spark plug tap but when it came it was 14mm at the end and then after 8mm became 16mm, this meant it was too short to really do the job properly.

 

With the 8 plugs in it started easily after the fuel pump had a tap. I had to turn it around in the drive and drive it down a private lane to get to the trailer and all seems well. I drove it onto the trailer and it even has brakes.

 

I used my jump pack to start it and it runs fine from the alternator, interesting when we had loaded it and switched off, the boot light was on. Is the 10+ year old battery going to recover?

 

It has been moved to my friends garage only 3 miles from me and tomorrow we will wash it and form a plan. 

[Six-cylinder]

I decided the 14mm plug tap was not as described and I would return it, after a couple of message and an extra photo to the seller it was sorted. The thing is now I would like to thank him but can not find any way to contact him again.  Ebay have become so protective to stop people making deals outside ebay that normal stuff is affected.  

[beko1987]

Decent chap! Find one of his other listing a d ask an 'other' question, that jumps straight to the write a message screen

[BeEP]

Or from your messages tab, below "more options" there is still the "find and contact member" option.  I haven't tested it to see what limitations their new 'let's piss off all users' policy might have imposed though.