Project Rusty Triumphs in Scotland - To gas or not to gas(less MIG) - 09/11/24

[Eddie Honda]

Query: When did they changeover the rear wheel cylinder size on the Acclaim from 11/16" to 3/4" bore?

[captain_70s]

How does the panel compare to the Dolly club ones?

Dunno, never seen a TDC panel in the metal although they are reported to be good. This one covers a lot more arch area though, far better for the repair I'll need to carry out. The other side is half decent, I'll probably get away with drilling out the rivets and re-using the repair panel.

 

 

Query: When did they changeover the rear wheel cylinder size on the Acclaim from 11/16" to 3/4" bore?

Not a clue. The advert for it said "VIN from X", given my car is an Mk2 from '83 I figured it'd use whatever was used on later cars so I took a gamble.

 

Ze Acclaim is now fixed. Threads are metric fine, so the pipe on the car was perfect, bleeding was easy due to my cheap one-man-bleeding contains/tube thing.

 

 

Quick spin around the block with a few emergency stops, all feels good, no signs of leakage or usage of fluid.

 

Now I can enjoy my weekend in the knowledge I'll be coming back to a functioning car to take me to work on Monday.

[SiC]

Very good news that you're back on the road without too much hassle!

[mk2_craig]

Well done! Bet you feel a bit better about ordering that replacement cylinder seeing as it turned out to be required after all.

[LightBulbFun]

Woo

 

happy to see you where able to fix the Acclaim

[junkyarddog]

Have you checked the other side too?

[Amishtat]

I'm just happy you're back on the road

[vulgalour]

[insert Portal 2 reference here]

[blackboilersuit]

Awesome news <does happy dance>. Remember to keep the old cylinder as the pistons and seals are perfectly usable. And buy a jubilee clip to replace the cable ties on the mounting bracket before you forget! 

[JeeExEll]

blackboilersuit ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑

A star, who helped a 'Shiter mate who was skint broke and in genuine difficulty. At short notice.

[blackboilersuit]

Aw shucks, thanks JeeExEll but it was nothing really. Tools and materials were "in stock", I had the evening spare and the good Cap'n was only a short drive away. Anyone prepared to run two old Triumphs from a busy Glasgow street with no money and limited tools deserves all the support we can give. The world needs more people with those levels of resourcefulness and optimism   

[Eddie Honda]

 

 

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Query: When did they changeover the rear wheel cylinder size on the Acclaim from 11/16" to 3/4" bore?

 

 

Not a clue. The advert for it said "VIN from X", given my car is an Mk2 from '83 I figured it'd use whatever was used on later cars so I took a gamble.

 

Ze Acclaim is now fixed.

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Not that I wish to take a dump on your brake-fixing triumph, but something caught my eye that might be an issue down the line. I say might as we all know that aftermarket parts catalogues are not infallible and are the motor factor equivalent of the Haynes manual, but...what you have extracted has has "3/4" marked on it, aka 19mm.

 

Well the catalogues that do offer two choices (the ones that only offer one for all years offer the later larger size) say that the early cars up to 12/1982 (< ch.121262) are 17.5mm (11/16"). The later ones from 01/1983 (ch.121263>) are 19.05mm (3/4"). [You can mibbie see what's coming now]

 

That Moprod box has MWC372 on it. A lookup of that number suggests that has a 17.5mm bore. I hope the catalogue was telling lies.

 

No big deal as you're mobile now, which is what counts, but may prove interesting on the rollers come MOT time.

 

[captain_70s]

Hmmm, sadly nothing stamped on the new part at all. Not a major job to change it if I need to anyhow, the parts are cheap!

 

 

 

blackboilersuit ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
A star, who helped a 'Shiter mate who was skint broke and in genuine difficulty. At short notice. 

 

WHS. Couldn't have gotten is sorted without his help.

[captain_70s]

Video update of shit that happened ages ago:

 

[dozeydustman]

I'll have to save the video for a little later, but it's good to see the Acclaim is back on the road with help from a friendly fellow shiteist.

[LightBulbFun]

Thats some serious rust poking

 

pretty sure if I had a Job and was at work, it would not be safe 

 

Keep up the good work and the good videos!

[junkyarddog]

Excellent vid Captain!

[Broadsword]

Another excellent video. I’ve been here myself a couple of times prodding at rust and finding I’m having to sweep a good potion of the car away in a dustpan. Really slightly depressing!

[dozeydustman]

Watched the video in the small hours this morning. Those arches were properly bodged. I'm surprised there were no torn up bits of Player's No.6 packets in with the wob.

[captain_70s]

 

Random garbage content. I've run out of money so nothing of interest is happening.

[LightBulbFun]

throughly enjoyed the video

 

happy to see things have been fairly event free and working well with the Tronda

 

(probably exactly what you need right about now given the life situation if im reading things correctly!)

[captain_70s]

(probably exactly what you need right about now given the life situation if im reading things correctly!)

Er, yeah. I think the technical term is "fiscally fucked". 

 

I'm hoping the Acclaim passes it's MOT with little in the way of major overhauling needing to take place as the backup car is fucked, and the backup backup car has been fucked for 4 years... While running an old car isn't really much more financially draining than running a modern on finance it doesn't require quite a bit more physical effort, and I can't technically afford run a car at all...

 

The Acclaim did get it's proper wash of 2019 t'other day, with me doing all inside the door shuts and blacking the plastics back up. From a few yards it still looks half decent..

 

 

The 1300 has inexplicably burst a fuel line while doing fuck all and has pissed petrol all over the street. The 1850 was moved t'other day and pissed all it's water out of the radiator in retaliation.

[JeeExEll]

Acclaim's looking good. Once warm weather comes it it might be worth recoating undersealed areas.

The Dolly's an ungrateful little shit for pissing out it's petrol, but at least it didn't happen in heavy traffic or right when you really needed to be somewhere.

[SiC]

How do you secure your camera to the headrest/seat back when doing filming while driving?

[captain_70s]

Acclaim's looking good. Once warm weather comes it it might be worth recoating undersealed areas.

The Dolly's an ungrateful little shit for pissing out it's petrol, but at least it didn't happen in heavy traffic or right when you really needed to be somewhere.

 

Aye, dependant on it's MOT passage next month it'll be getting some love.

 

How do you secure your camera to the headrest/seat back when doing filming while driving?

 

With the world's shittest flexible mount tripod thingy. I just jam it onto the seat in such a way it is vaguely secure, easier on the Acclaim due to lack of headrests.

 

 

I seem to recall it was about £10 from Amazon...

[Conan]

Aye, dependant on it's MOT passage next month it'll be getting some love.

 

 

With the world's shittest flexible mount tripod thingy. I just jam it onto the seat in such a way it is vaguely secure, easier on the Acclaim due to lack of headrests.

 

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I seem to recall it was about £10 from Amazon...

 

Makes me feel a bit ashamed for this set up, really.

 

 

The video is superb!

[cms206]

I've painted a bus now I'll paint fucking anything*.

 

Body repairs are sadly not a strong point...

 

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[captain_70s]

Nothing of interest has happened of late. Although I did decide to play with some video settings on my camera as I have a few video essay/mini documentaries I fancy filming for which I will need slightly more professional video footage (and a tripod, evidently).

The test footage features shite.

 

[SiC]

When do you reckon you'll get the replacement engine in?

[captain_70s]

9 minutes ago, SiC said:

When do you reckon you'll get the replacement engine in?

Summer.

Not sure which year yet, but it'll be summer.