Fumbler Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 54 minutes ago, R1152 said: There's also an excerpt on the YooChoob taken from The Sweeney of a 16 being chased by Regan's Granada Ghia. It's quite eye-opening. Indeed the tripodding R16 made my father and I go "ooh!" when we watched that episode last week. R1152 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R1152 Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 As a first car, it was quite something to own and the body roll used to amuse my mates somewhat. Yet, as has been asserted elsewhere, they don't come unstuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Same with deux chevaux; they're on 125s and stick like shit to a blanket despite heroic levels of lean. LightBulbFun and chaseracer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJY Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Thank you chaps. Stock it is then. might as well get the wheels powder coated at the same time Not looking forward to hand painting in the inserts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 On 2/20/2021 at 8:20 PM, R1152 said: Correct - a 'standard' tyre has an aspect ratio of 80%. The tyres on the family Mk. IV Zodiac were 185 HR 14, my old 16 was 145 SR 14. "S" was about the lowest speed rating you got: as the Zodiac could (just) top 100mph it had H-rated tyres. Current car is 225/50 R 17 94W, the latter three characters being weight/speed loading. Not quite correct, let me get my anorak on and comfy... "Standard" profile where the tyre is, for example, 165R13, is 82%, rather than 80%, but the difference is so tiny that you are or were legally allowed to mix 165r13 and 165/80r13 tyres on the same axle. R1152 and Talbot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R1152 Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 Every day a schoolday... 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 7 hours ago, M'coli said: Not quite correct, let me get my anorak on and comfy... "Standard" profile where the tyre is, for example, 165R13, is 82%, rather than 80%, but the difference is so tiny that you are or were legally allowed to mix 165r13 and 165/80r13 tyres on the same axle. The difference is tiny and also overwhelmed by manufacturing tolerances which are often larger than that; molding round black things out of squidgy stuff is a bit of an art. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faker Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 On 2/20/2021 at 7:16 PM, MattJY said: The tyre is a 145 SR R13 The SR style height equivalents to 80% of the 145 width (116mm) it’s just back then it was simply known as an SR and not: 145 80 R13 165/70/13 are exactly the same radius and diameter. Also easier found than 145/13 nowadays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJY Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 On 2/20/2021 at 7:16 PM, MattJY said: The tyre is a 145 SR R13 The ST equivalents to 80% of the 145 width it’s just back then it was simply known as an SR Yes I am tempted with the 165/70’s, bit less weedy looking and a bit more stability, I just don’t want to ruin the steering at low speed. I might just bung a pair on the fronts and see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJY Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Went for 5 145 80 R13’s in the end. Wheels off ready to go to powder coating.  Had my first proper nose round underneath. Brake hoses all shot 1 outer CV gaiter split 1 inner CV to diff seal leaking gearbox transfer case gasket leaking 1 hole found NSF inner wing, easy fix with wing off.  Very good really.  The only concerning bit was the expansion tank is nearly empty and I can see glycol around one of the downwards facing core plugs. No mayonnaise on the oil cap or in the expansion tank it may simply have evaporated. Rad not wet. I’ll fill it and run it up.   Joey spud, LightBulbFun, adw1977 and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 500tops, Split_Pin, Parky and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJY Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Well, I’ve made a start. Wheels are back from powder coasters, new tyres. I have to paint the black inserts. Tyre guy said they were too small to balance, gona need to find someone with an old machine, maybe a caravan service place. Moved onto the split NSF outer driveshaft gaiter, all came apart pretty easy but going to need the dugga dugga gun from work to get the hubnut off. On closer inspection the flex brake lines are not cracked and look good. have been round everything with WD40 in prep for a strip down. Saw my mate in France last week whom I have been sending parts too so now have a new Solex twin choke and a new TS front grill Its progress! anonymous user, Dyslexic Viking, Yoss and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Excellent stuff man. Glad to see there's still a 14 on here, it's basically what I joined for back in 2008. LightBulbFun and mk2_craig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJY Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 The good thing about old Renault is there are loads of parts about. Got a new set of chrome wheel nuts (12) off eBay for £9.99 delivered. I also had a bit of a spend on Autodoc. Bought a massive box of stuff, brakes, multiple oil, air and fuel filters, dizzy parts, leads, 2 sets of spark plugs, driveshaft gaiters and seals, cooling parts, stat and pipes and loads more like full engine gasket set £150 plus vat, criminal cort1977, Coprolalia, Lacquer Peel and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richbraith Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 When this is finished I want to touch and smell it. The Horizon is as near as I'm going to get to a real R14, though my R19 is a direct descendent. mk2_craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 On 9/15/2021 at 4:57 AM, MattJY said: The good thing about old Renault is there are loads of parts about. Got a new set of chrome wheel nuts (12) off eBay for £9.99 delivered. I also had a bit of a spend on Autodoc. Bought a massive box of stuff, brakes, multiple oil, air and fuel filters, dizzy parts, leads, 2 sets of spark plugs, driveshaft gaiters and seals, cooling parts, stat and pipes and loads more like full engine gasket set £150 plus vat, criminal I think you are right there, loads of old spares shops wind up or the owner retires. The one near us ended up with loads of odd stuff like Talbot Solara distributor caps or Peugeot 104 fanbelts etc. I think most went in the bin after about a thousand relists on eBay. Somebody though eventually is going to be looking for a Solara distributor cap and out of frustration they’ll have all gone in the skip. beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Back in my Halfords days, a huge amount of old stuff went into the skip whenever the chain was sold off by Boots Group around 2002. My store had only opened in 1998, but we still had shelves behind the parts desk crammed with redundant stock: gasket sets for Mk1 Cavaliers, shims for Maxi brake pads, alternators for Renault 18s, and sump washers for Alfasuds. All things that we never, ever sold since these cars were all but extinct in Northern Ireland. It was a shocking waste, but I recognised that none of it was ever going to sell over the counter in a retail park store. Still felt wrong, mind. It took weeks to remove it all from the stockfile, too. I might* have saved some air filters and other stuff that would fit on my HC Viva, though. Faker, egg and ChinaTom 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 6 minutes ago, Datsuncog said: Back in my Halfords days, a huge amount of old stuff went into the skip whenever the chain was sold off by Boots Group around 2002. My store had only opened in 1998, but we still had shelves behind the parts desk crammed with redundant stock: gasket sets for Mk1 Cavaliers, shims for Maxi brake pads, alternators for Renault 18s, and sump washers for Alfasuds. All things that we never, ever sold since these cars were all but extinct in Northern Ireland. It was a shocking waste, but I recognised that none of it was ever going to sell over the counter in a retail park store. Still felt wrong, mind. It took weeks to remove it all from the stockfile, too. I might* have saved some air filters and other stuff that would fit on my HC Viva, though. Was there no system for transferring these parts over to branches in England? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 All branches across the UK were bucking their parts out too, in exactly the same way. The new owners just ran their eye down the stockfiles and any parts that were shifting less than a certain number of units across the company were deleted, with the products left in-store to be destroyed. There's a huge amount of waste generated from any multi-national - we'd get memos through to withdraw and destroy stock all the time, often just because there was a slightly newer version coming out with different packaging. It was cheaper just to write odds and ends off at store level than arrange for returns, re-stocking and bulk disposal from the Redditch warehouse. We'd be ordered to chop up bike frames and roof bars with a hacksaw before skipping them, because staff taking these written-off products home was strictly verboten. Such a waste. Longbridge Apologist and Lacquer Peel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJY Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 So the brakes are now all rebuilt after failing and making me miss Shitefest which I am still gutted about. front callipers  stripped, new piston, seals, pads and flexis Rears, new shoes, cylinders, bearings, brake pipes and flexis. Just the bleeding to do then going to stick it through an MOT, egg, RobT, wuvvum and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 I'd forgotten all about this! Glad to see you're still going with it. Matty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJY Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 I am. Went to France a few weeks back on a parts run, got two TS interiors, 1.4TS engine and 5 speed brand new bonnet, NSR door, car  engine loom and all the electric windows and locks. Oh and a tinted glass set 500tops, Dave_Q, LightBulbFun and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJY Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Brakes fixed and bled, it’s a runner again. LightBulbFun, Mrs6C, Remspoor and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 1 minute ago, MattJY said: Brakes fixed and bled, it’s a runner again. Photos and video would be super. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 5 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: Photos and video would ensure I'd well and truly crash the yoghurt truck repeatedly by bedtime. FTFY. But in fairness, I'd echo that request... Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJY Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Off to Greece for a week I will oblige upon my return. Dick Longbridge, RayMK and Datsuncog 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 8 minutes ago, MattJY said: Off to Greece for a week I will oblige upon my return. You've slipped away, then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJY Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Update. Been cleaning and checking the new 1.4TS engine. 40 years of grime but all the bolts came out lovely. Stuck a new clutch in as it was £50, new gaskets and seal, bit of paint and put my brand new carb on.  Before  Dick Longbridge, somewhatfoolish, RobT and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJY Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 A few hrs later trigger, Coprolalia, HillmanImp and 34 others 37 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Watching with great interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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