A Californian drying out in South Africa
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Ever since I removed the steel heat shield from the space between the twin Strombergs and the silencer to paint it I have had a rattle, not all the time but a rattle none the less.
That shield was The Nuns idea?
It works too!
The 2 k primer I repainted the plate with after stripping to bare metal has had a drip or three of petrol on it but the paint was not affected by the petrol.
I had it in a gloss black finish before but the primer looks better?
Some 3mm shims have repositioned the shield up and away from the silencer and the rattle has gone.
That shield was The Nuns idea?
It works too!
The 2 k primer I repainted the plate with after stripping to bare metal has had a drip or three of petrol on it but the paint was not affected by the petrol.
I had it in a gloss black finish before but the primer looks better?
Some 3mm shims have repositioned the shield up and away from the silencer and the rattle has gone.
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Thanks,The Nun wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:49 pm Check your carpets to see if it's weeping from the front of the master cylinder?
Wear in the rear shoes and not keeping the adjusters up to cater for that will give more pedal travel.
Rear brake slave cylinder not sliding freely on the backplates.
Internal servo seals leaking if you have one, I don't think you do.
If the fluids gone down very slowly over time it's brake lining wear causing it, if it's gone down suddenly, in a day or so there's a leak somewhere.
I now have a separate reservoir for clutch and brake on both my Imps with disc brakes, it quadruples the fluid reserve, I've never felt the standard is really enough, just 2 egg cups full, even with the drums, just 2 pedal pumps of reserve. Not enough.
I have the car in the garage now, so next to jack up the front of the car, remove the wheels and check the disc brakes, then the brake cylinder in the car, its fine under the petrol tank, that was checked yesterday.
I see no sign of fluid inside the wheel rims, often that is a good way to identify a corner with a leak?
With luck its just that the front disc pads have fully bedded in?
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Thanks, that is a large difference!RGWM wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:24 pmSuper unleaded is typically between £1.55 - £1.65 per litre in the North-West (Lancashire) where I am.African Imp wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:04 am I went to the local Engen garage and put some fuel in the cars tank, we pay R24.33 per liter, which is Pounds 1.036 per liter.
What does it cost in the UK?
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Front discs and brake master cylinder checked at the tank underside and inside the car, no leaks found.
I now think that there was never a leak, its just the new Ferodo FBD589 brake pads bedding in, I was warned about this by CV.
I now think that there was never a leak, its just the new Ferodo FBD589 brake pads bedding in, I was warned about this by CV.
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Drivers side was a lot cleaner than the passenger side.
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Because the passenger side is the gutter side where it gets all the filth and grit thrown at everything that side, one always expects the passenger side to be worse and that's the same for the bodywork too as regards stone chips and rusting.
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Yes, understood but when you consider that I have only ever used this car since the restoration and when the roads are dry, I was surprised to see the difference from the one side to the other.
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If your axle stands are supporting the shell it would be interesting to see how much damper travel you have left when the car is sat on the ground. If the stands are under the wishbones then you are ok.
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Whats in a name?
I use Loctite quite often, I see that another brand name uses the same packaging and the contents are also green, could it be that Loctite is selling the same product and under a different brand name?
I use Loctite quite often, I see that another brand name uses the same packaging and the contents are also green, could it be that Loctite is selling the same product and under a different brand name?
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Car was on a hydraulic jack on the one side.
I have fitted Monte Carlo road springs front and rear but with a 12mm shim to raise the car by that amount as I wanted the car a little higher than the Montes give.
Front shocks we made here specially for me, they are basically 15mm shorter than standard to keep the shorter Montes tight in the assembly.
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No someone else is trying to make you think their brand is Loctite, just like the supermarkets sell their own brand foodstuffs etc in packs and bottles with similar coloured labels to the top selling brands but a few pence cheaper, folk pick it up thinking they're buying the real thing through not looking at the label properly, its crafty selling, a bit sly, it's usually cheaper because it's not so good, uses cheaper ingredients, always check and buy the genuine product if you want it to work as you are hoping it does.African Imp wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:39 am Whats in a name?
I use Loctite quite often, I see that another brand name uses the same packaging and the contents are also green, could it be that Loctite is selling the same product and under a different brand name?
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I looked into the brand name Dynatex, its a family owned firm from Kentuckey, started in 1971, seems they have no connection with Loctite?The Nun wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:30 amNo someone else is trying to make you think their brand is Loctite, just like the supermarkets sell their own brand foodstuffs etc in packs and bottles with similar coloured labels to the top selling brands but a few pence cheaper, folk pick it up thinking they're buying the real thing through not looking at the label properly, its crafty selling, a bit sly, it's usually cheaper because it's not so good, uses cheaper ingredients, always check and buy the genuine product if you want it to work as you are hoping it does.African Imp wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:39 am Whats in a name?
I use Loctite quite often, I see that another brand name uses the same packaging and the contents are also green, could it be that Loctite is selling the same product and under a different brand name?
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Break fluid is stable since my last visit, I will look into fitting a larger tank.
Finding one that suits an Imps application may be the problem?
Finding one that suits an Imps application may be the problem?
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Re: A Californian drying out in South Africa
No it isn't. Plenty of similar reservoirs available.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395186972052 ... AkQAvD_BwE
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Finding a larger one that fits in the standard imp position that will do clutch and brakes, you wont find one, you need to fit a couple of larger Girling type remotes on the front inner wing or the heater bulkhead and pipe it down using flex hoses to the master cylinders, that's what most folk do including myself.African Imp wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:14 am Break fluid is stable since my last visit, I will look into fitting a larger tank.
Finding one that suits an Imps application may be the problem?
I removed the existing brake clutch reservoir from the front panel and used that position as a filling point for the screen wash with a water reservoir/bottle under it.
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On the 1973 Hillman Imp that I restored, also with Ford Fiesta front discs I fitted a GUD in line fuel filter under the original reservoir, works fine.The Nun wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:31 amFinding a larger one that fits in the standard imp position that will do clutch and brakes, you wont find one, you need to fit a couple of larger Girling type remotes on the front inner wing or the heater bulkhead and pipe it down using flex hoses to the master cylinders, that's what most folk do including myself.African Imp wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:14 am Break fluid is stable since my last visit, I will look into fitting a larger tank.
Finding one that suits an Imps application may be the problem?
I removed the existing brake clutch reservoir from the front panel and used that position as a filling point for the screen wash with a water reservoir/bottle under it.
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yes, your right!Uncle Henry wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:26 am No it isn't. Plenty of similar reservoirs available.
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This is the brake and clutch fluid reservoir on a Bond 875, 3 wheeler, looks like one unit does both clutch and brakes?, but considering the Bond has one brake less than an Imp look at the size of it.
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My take on it.
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One for each, did you cut out the central baffle inside ?
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I can fit an in line fuel filter, due to the paper filter inside the tank it will not be the full amount but will double the quantity of brake fluid?
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A simple test on my old GUD filter and an even older Imp brake fluid tank shows that the filled capacity is near enough the same.
So an in line filter and it body doubles capacity, I expected more, the volume of the filter paper is the issue.
The glass on the left was fluid from the Imps plastic fluid tank.
So an in line filter and it body doubles capacity, I expected more, the volume of the filter paper is the issue.
The glass on the left was fluid from the Imps plastic fluid tank.
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Actually, the additional one does the clutch, but is looped into one side of the original, so providing a "balance" pipe and extra fluid reserve. A hole through each baffle evens it up. They have Bob Picton aluminum covers over the lids, but now anodised blue.One for each, did you cut out the central baffle inside ?
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I suppose the inline filter would remove any sand, grit and debris that happened to get in when you were filling it too.
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I fitted one to Imp Club member Rob Youngs 1973 Hillman Imp, he had me fill with silicone fluid and has reported no issues, CV supplied front Ford Fiesta disc brakes fitted to his car also.
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I use silicone fluid, it is £50 a litre though so I doubt you'd entertain using it Roy ?
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I did consider it at the time but stripping the entire brake system down to clean it first was what put me off, it was not the cost?
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I did consider it at the time but stripping the entire brake system down to clean it first was what put me off, it was not the cost?
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We live in an ever smaller world, here we have some 13" x 155 x 65 sized Chinese Goodride tyres being fitted to some South African made Rostyle steel rims, I believe the Rostyle rim design was English?
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The Cortina Mark 2 1600 E was one of the first cars to have Rostyle wheels here I remember, that was F reg, 68 model year.
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It was also the year that I arrived in Cape Town, October 1968!
This rim job was done January 19th 2016.
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...and you are showing us photos from 8 years ago because..?
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Maybe to show off how good his filing system is, I doubt I could even find my photos from 8 years ago to post many lost when old computers and phones were thrown out and I didn't bother to download them onto a memory stick because I never had one handy.
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If I could have a filing system to offer a better system than my own memory I would be quite keen to use it?
As things are I have boxes of photos and slides, my dads as well as mine, some go back to the 1960s, dad was a professional photographer and most times carried a camera. I followed on and cameras have been with me for decades, of course with SD cards and digital cameras storage of images is far easier and takes less space.
The two hard drives shown are from a desk top and laptop PC ( I have others ) they are full of images but they are not filed, they may be named, IE: Oli, bumper lights, the Nun, front grill, even a date helps find things, otherwise they are listed with DCIM **** which is the Canon image file number.
Of course there are CDs with images on, plus the old 3.5" MicroDisk's which hold 1.44MB when formatted.
So I have to know the image exists, then find it!
When I have the time I name images, even one being named from a group then leads me to other images taken on the same day?
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