kev's Fleet, TR7V8,Lotus Elan, Morris Minor, Range Rover, MX5, StreetKA and Fiesta

[kevins]

Range Rover Passed MOT with the usual advisories (wax on brake pipes, rusty springs, slight fraying on seat belts and minor oil leaks)

Heated seats are also connected up and working on Fiesta.

After not being used for 4 or 5 months I also went and got the minor started, after a bit of input from the Rangie it started easily.

I need to get it home and give it a going over, issues I know about are:  clonking from front somewhere, leaking rear dampers(have telescopic kit to fit), rear springs sagged (have a pair of Traveller ones), its losing brake fluid, smokes at idle . ( I think the last 2 may be linked via the servo).

There are also a couple of body bits which need doing before it heads up to my son in Scunthorpe, the paint on the roof is very thin in places, and there is the common issue of a crack at the waist line just behind the door.

As they are both doing 1000 miles a month a service for the fiesta and Street Ka are first on the agenda though.

Need to get the new wheels / tyres on the TR to.

 

[mercedade]

10 hours ago, kevins said:

Range Rover Passed MOT with the usual advisories (wax on brake pipes, rusty springs, slight fraying on seat belts and minor oil leaks)

Heated seats are also connected up and working on Fiesta.

After not being used for 4 or 5 months I also went and got the minor started, after a bit of input from the Rangie it started easily.

I need to get it home and give it a going over, issues I know about are:  clonking from front somewhere, leaking rear dampers(have telescopic kit to fit), rear springs sagged (have a pair of Traveller ones), its losing brake fluid, smokes at idle . ( I think the last 2 may be linked via the servo).

There are also a couple of body bits which need doing before it heads up to my son in Scunthorpe, the paint on the roof is very thin in places, and there is the common issue of a crack at the waist line just behind the door.

As they are both doing 1000 miles a month a service for the fiesta and Street Ka are first on the agenda though.

Need to get the new wheels / tyres on the TR to.

 

CALENDAR SHOT

[kevins]

went and had a look at the TR which also hasn't been used since well before xmas,  connected the battery, turned the key and hey presto.

Thats steam not smoke!

Must get the wheels/ tyres done so I can take it for a drive..

[Semi-C]

First class antics kevins, just caught up with a year's worth of your thread and it is highly rated.

11/10, with distinctions for the window ratchet and fiesta sill.

 

[kevins]

spent a day on the Street Ka, its recently had plugs and brakes from a service point of view it was just an oil change, and check the oil filter.

For some time its had a stumble when you tip in from a light throttle,  as they are cheap I changed the throttle potentiometer.

Had to remove the air cleaner and throttle body but all easy enough and went back together with no problems, not sure it's much better but its not any worse!

Also wondered about this in the aircleaner,

seems to be a restrictor, left it in for now  but wonder what removing it would do.

 

next up was the grumbly rear wheel bearing, again easy enough, the bearing races were blued and the grease smelt rank, spindle and hub were fine though so easy enough job.

fine afterwards.

finaly a simple one, the boot lid didn't rise and barely stayed open, new gas struts fixed that.

 

 

 

[kevins]

one thing i forgot on the KA was this.

the thermostat housing is leaking. its already been replaced once and the worst of it seems to be coming from between it and the block which probably has some corrosion, though looking a the photo the sensor on top seems to be leaking too.  It's not losing much coolant but you can smell it. As a temporary fix I've added a bottle of kseal, when its not being used again (probably easter daughter is trainee teacher)  I'll change the housing (not to  bad at around £50 for a new one).

 

 

[kevins]

k seal seems to have worked on Street ka, its done around 1000 miles since and not lost any coolant.

In fact its now being used even more simce my Daughters partners modernish mazda 6 seems to have shat a DMF.

I've ordered  a load of parts, bits to repair pas pump, new water pump., belts and fan hub for the range rover all the parts to do the cam belt  and a new air con condensor from rockauto for the mazda.  Range rover will be first as I plan to take it away on holiday for a week soon.

Between all the ongoing building work I did manage to get the TR out and fit the new wheels and tyres.

need to peel the MG stickers off the centres and paint them, might have a go at 3d printing some new ones with the TR7 or Triumph logo one day.

with new rather than a mixed set of ancient tyres it drives really well to.

[kevins]

finaly got round to gettng the new tyres mounted and fitted the new wheels to the TR7

with half decent tyres it also drives much better.

I also made decent clamp  for the battery in the boot and cleaned up some rust on the inner wing (low down in single skinned bit so will be a easy repair)

Next thing is to look at the starter(it has always been very slow to crank) weld up some pin holes in the downpipes and fix the gearbox leaks (or at least top it up for now)