Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[High Jetter]

2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Even our 652cc Special has a 100 mph Speedo

It's good to have aspirations!

[Six-cylinder]

20 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

It's good to have aspirations!

100mph would be 7,350 rpm!

[Six-cylinder]

Today the 230TE was put to work!

A local window company has some pallet wood to give away. The good bit is some of the spars that hold the windows in a lorry are screwed together and therefore much easier to recover the timber for my shelves than breaking up regular nailed pallets.

[hairnet]

richard blizzard right there 

 

[Six-cylinder]

I collected my MGB GT today from service and rear brake overhaul.

As some of you may know the brakes were strange, sometimes there was normal brake travel other times none. It turned out to be a rear brake adjuster had seized and jumped in and out of place. Also the hand brake was not working. All done now including a replacement wheel cylinder as one was weeping.

I reported the ns headlight was dim and that turned out to be a corroded scotchlock.

Also the instrument lights sometimes didn't work, that turned out to be the headlight switch. They did not have one and left that to me to order.

[RayMK]

14 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I collected my MGB GT today from service and rear brake overhaul.

As some of you may know the brakes were strange, sometimes there was normal brake travel other times none. It turned out to be a rear brake adjuster had sized and jumped in and out of place. Also the hand brake was not working. All done now including a replacement wheel cylinder as one was weeping.

I reported the ns headlight was dim and that turned out to be a corroded scotchlock.

Also the instrument lights sometimes didn't work, that turned out to be the headlight switch. They did not have one and left that to me to order.

So nice to have a car that's fixable without chasing error codes, sensors, ECUs and software updates!

[chadders]

And a fuse box with a total of 4 fuses in it.

[Zelandeth]

That fault does indeed make sense given the symptoms.  Glad they were able to get to the bottom of it.

Couple more photos from the BL Day (120 film)/previous FoD days (110) as the films are now all back.  In no particular order as I'm busy packing for our return trip home tomorrow.

 

[mitsisigma01]

Wow 😲

[Six-cylinder]

1 hour ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Wow 😲

Poverty is not even having no clock!

[Six-cylinder]

A Morris Oxford Coupe may not be everybody's cup of tea but I had a nice road run in mine along with a friend in his Morris Oxford Convertible today. We attended Osselli's Open Day which is 10 mins from me but we found a route so it took 1 1/2 hours just for fun!

[Six-cylinder]

If I could have borrowed any car for a drive out from Osselli's today it would have been this Maserati Ghibli.

[Six-cylinder]

@MiniMinorMk3 I have moved the discussion about Motorist Discount Centre away from Andyrew's Panda thread  so not to pollute that.

I joined MDC (RC Hartley Ltd) in Oct 1979 during there London expansion, my training was in the Pinner shop and as they were very short of staff it was not long before I was given my first Manager job at Pinner. I then moved to Slough Divisional HQ. I was given the new branch in Aylesbury and bought a house in the town, then was asked to go back to London and manage the busiest shop of the 420 at there peak. As the company was going down I ended up In Oxford preparing the two shops for a possible sale. Spring 1985 I was made redundant and the whole company went in to liquidation.

The outside picture is Slough shop and the Passat TS was my car at the time that was only 5 years old.

We still have an odd item branded MDC and the Battery charger is in regular use because if a battery is dead flat it is much better at reviving it than a smart charger. 

[Yoss]

On 10/14/2022 at 6:09 PM, chadders said:

And a fuse box with a total of 4 fuses in it.

That's two more than my Triumph has. It has one for the stuff that runs through the ignition and one for the stuff that doesn't. Except the headlights, they're not fused at all. Technically there is a third fuse but that's just a spare that sits in a little recess between the other two. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

I started at Tunbridge Wells in  May '82. I was only there for a couple of weeks and then got moved to Tonbridge.  The company always felt as though it was on the brink of disaster to me as orders started to not get filled. After a year I decided to go back to college and waste a couple more years in education.

[RayMK]

4 minutes ago, Yoss said:

That's two more than my Triumph has. It has one for the stuff that runs through the ignition and one for the stuff that doesn't. Except the headlights, they're not fused at all. Technically there is a third fuse but that's just a spare that sits in a little recess between the other two. 

Same with my '61 Reliant Regal.

[Six-cylinder]

3 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I started at Tunbridge Wells in  May '83. I was only there for a couple of weeks and then got moved to Tonbridge.  The company always felt as though it was on the brink of disaster to me as orders started to not get filled. After a year I decided to go back to college and waste a couple more years in education.

I think the slide started at Easter 1982 when sales were below target across the company. It was all built on bank money and then we could not buy the advance seasonal stock to get best price and more and more supplies put us on stop. The figure that was banded about in 1985 was the company went down for 11 million pounds.

 

[Six-cylinder]

11 minutes ago, Yoss said:

That's two more than my Triumph has. It has one for the stuff that runs through the ignition and one for the stuff that doesn't. Except the headlights, they're not fused at all. Technically there is a third fuse but that's just a spare that sits in a little recess between the other two. 

My 1970 Triumph Vitesse has two fuses in the main fuse box and a factory in line fuse under the dash left side. 

[Mrs6C]

Interesting. Triumph Heralds only had one fuse, in-line for the headlamp flash circuit... 

[Yoss]

Ah well, the 1300 is a limousine in miniature* hence having two whole fuses. 

 

*or so the period adverts tell me. You might struggle to convince people of that today. Especially if you show them my one. 

[hairnet]

we're all whippersnappers compared to the old duffers on this thread

 

[richardmorris]

I bought stuff from motorist discount centre in Wrexham in the 1990s- same company or a spin off?

 

edit: I’m still using the battery charger I bought there in 1993!

[LightBulbFun]

amusingly despite my car only having only 2 main fuses 

I have been told its over-fused, as everything (except the high current starting lead going to the dynastart) on the car runs through those 2 fuses  

theres also a 3rd fuse in the engine bay to protect the charging circuit, and amusingly this of a European style!

 

are there any other cars out there that use 2 completely different styles of fuses?  

[Six-cylinder]

53 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I bought stuff from motorist discount centre in Wrexham in the 1990s- same company or a spin off?

 

edit: I’m still using the battery charger I bought there in 1993!

There were a few Motor Accessory Business called Motorist Discount Center or Centres, the one I worked for went bankrupt in 1985.

Was the battery charger branded like ours?

[richardmorris]

34 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

There were a few Motor Accessory Business called Motorist Discount Center or Centres, the one I worked for went bankrupt in 1985.

Was the battery charger branded like ours?

 

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

 

Not the same.

[richardmorris]

As a 20yr old I had no money and I remember my gran gave me the money for my birthday to buy it.

[Six-cylinder]

My treat today was to borrow my favourite garages Triumph 2000 estate fitted with a 2.5Pi engine for a TSSC meeting this evening. I don't have to give it back until Thursday!

[wuvvum]

A Mk1 2500 estate is near the top of my classic car want list.  Decent ones are sadly out of my price range these days though.

[hairnet]

been there

it was rustier than the mx5