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Re: BAZZA'S IMP'S (LNK, NPN & LYH) - New kid on the block

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No 1 (LYH) needs to be stripped and some body repairs carried out. This will be the really long and drawn out work as I have neither the skills nor the money at present, let alone the time!

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May have to go through a divorce and relocation before proper work can start.

More when I can, just wanted to start this off.

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In time I hope to have a fast road tuned Imp running on the alloys bought from Tim with 175/70/12's. (not any more, got 2 nice sets of 6x13 with 185-60-13 tyres now) Stainless exhaust manifold and system (sport) and better carb(s).

I will fit seats from a Ford RST with matching rear seats and new door trims. I have a nice leather Moto lita steering wheel to go in it but still need a suitable boss (will probably modify a Mountney one).

All new instruments to include Speedo, Revs (mounted in the other large dash 'hole', and combined Oil pressure/Water temp, volts and clock - all in the spaces provided on the standard dash (or a new panel shaped accordingly). New carpets and soundproofing etc. I have a reasonable ICE system ready and waiting to go in.

I really like the smooth look so may do away with the bumpers, maybe adding over-riders like on the rear of a Frogeye. Colour - I've always liked Triumph Midnight Blue from the 60's so I may go that route.

Most, if not all, of the above will probably change as the project progresses, watch this space!

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No real progress at the moment but if I go for green I think it'll be the green GM used for the Lotus Carlton - saw one at Castle Combe and it's just the job, very dark. I'll be getting some nice wide 13" Minilites too so the alloys from Tim Morgan will eventually be up for sale - I may renovate them first though. Still waiting for the divorce papers to arrive so I'm a bit loathe to do anything major at the moment.

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Made a start on the rear and front offside wings, rubbing down previous repairs to bare metal, priming, filling, sanding etc. Looks better already with a single colour.
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I've arranged a deal on a couple of Recaros from an early 1990's Ford, no rips or burns with just one knob missing (easily replaced). Should be picking them up on Saturday. It'll be ages before they go in the car though but it was a good deal so, while I had the money I thought "Why not?"

Looking forward to when I can get my own place with a garage after the divorce so I can continue sorting the bodywork. Won't be for a while though. In the meantime I'll carry on picking up bits and bobs here and there whilst helping Rich with the Rally car et al.

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Not much to add but still picking up bits and pieces along the way, now have a twin headlamp front panel (thanks Tim) so hopefully when the time comes to do the front end bodywork this will be welded in.

I've applied for a local council lock-up as it seems like this divorce business is going to drag on a fair bit and I may need to find alternative accommodation for some stuff.

That's about it for now, more in due course.

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I'm probably going to put the green interior from my other Imp into LNK as it's in better nick. I have RS Turbo seats to go in that one day so the green ones are surplus to requirements.

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Yesterday we fitted new o/s rear brake cylinder and pipe, n/s ok so left well alone!

Tried bleeding brakes using Rich's new toy which sucks on the nipples, no....... really, it does :oops:

Still had problems and the brake pedal wouldn't come back up.

Rich discovered that where the old master cylinder had been leaking it had corroded the brake pedal spindle stopping it from returning. In the time it took me to pop out to the lock-up and back re another matter Rich had the fuel tank out, old pedal box out and the old pedal box from Si's old Sport fitted and ready to go.

So, fuel tank back in, etc etc and we tried bleeding the brakes again. This time Success! We have a pretty firm pedal.

Still got to bleed the clutch, check over the cooling system and give the brakes a final bleed. Then there's a bit of rot in the o/s floor/sill join that needs cutting out and a plate welding in.

Once that's all done, and a new bulb in one of the lights, time for an MOT.

LNK now has wheels/tyres, front suspension and pedal box from Si's old Sport (would have rear suspension too but damper fittings rusted solid).

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Fitted a new battery to LNK today and she fired up no problem. Once warm she ran quite smoothly too. :D

Replaced the offside inner headlamp with a second hand spare, now all lights work as they should. :D Eventually I'll replace all four with modern halogen units.

The temp gauge showed a nice steady temp rise until about 2/3 when the 'stat must have kicked in as it then went down to 1/2 and stayed thereabouts. :D No heat from the heater though, hopefully just an airlock. Unfortunately, there is a steady drip/dribble from the water pump :( . So a new pump is needed, hopefully Rich may have one in the lock-up :D

Once that's fitted and the clutch is bled it just needs a bit of welding before a trip to the nice MOT man........

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Unfortunately LNK will not be ready in time for Uxbridge :( Didn't get the time to do the necessary for the MOT. Hopefully will be done by next weekend though. Also, no insurance docs yet. Nearly got there but not quite.

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I'll still be there though!
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Collected the green set of seats from the garage at the matrimonial home, unfortunately some mice had been at the padding of the rear seat back! Still, I won't be sitting in the back. I'll get around to fitting these at some point, but probably not before the National.

Still awaiting the visit with the MOT man, work and other constraints causing delays :( .

In anticipation of needing to use the Imp soon I have ordered a new set of rad hoses from Malc, should be here before the weekend. The tent I ordered for the National arrived today, so my acommodation is sorted.

Just need to get away from work and get the MOT sorted. Not looking good for Classics on the Green on Wed 1st August though :(. I'll still be there with or without the Imp, likewise the National. Hoping to do WWW as well! :D

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Should be dropping LNK off to get he welding done today (finally). At least it'll be out from under Karen's feet at Rich's place! With any luck, upon my return from the Hop Farm it'll be ready for Mr MOT. :D

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Apart from some tuning and general servicing required LNK ran the 5 or so miles to the body man's workshop with no issues, temp was steady just past half way in hot weather and some stop start traffic plus some faster stuff, oil pressure was good as was battery charge. So hopefully the body will be sorted for the MOT very soon. Have noticed the belts are badly frayed though, I'll see if those from LYH are any better. If not there'll have to be new ones fitted before the MOT.

Small progress then. :)

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Picked up LYH's belts yesterday, the webbing is much better than LNK's but the adjusters and buckles are corroded and don't work. :( New belts it'll be then, not a bad thing really :wink:

Glenn's done a nice job of welding LNK's floor and now I've dropped off a sill he can complete the job. I'll ask him to check for any other bits I may have missed too.

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Phoned Quickfit SB Centre around 2pm today. Spoke to Stuart Quick himself. I explained what I needed. They have developed a fitting kit for inertia reel front belts. I have ordered these for the front and statics for the rear. All in black webbing with 'modern' stalks and latches. Including all the hardware total was £175 inc VAT.

Not too bad I reckon. Even better he said they'll start making them first thing tomorrow morning and worst case scenario is that they will be ready no later than 5.30pm tomorrow.

They're going to give me instructions on where to fit them (the reels apparently go in the rear side bins) and I'm going to do it myself. Otherwise it's around 3-4 hrs labour to fit them.

Hope to collect LNK on Wed or Thu evening and maybe fit the belts over the weekend.

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If I get up early enough tomorrow I'm going to have a good look at the welding Glenn's done and take a few pictures before I apply the Hydrate 80 and stonechip (which I haven't actually got yet!). Luckily he's painted red oxide primer over the bare metal so it should be OK until I can sort it.

Then it's off to sort out the lock-up.

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My son Jack helped me fit a 'clip-on' stainless steel overtaking type mirror thingy on LNK today. Driving back from getting the welding done exposed the lack of rearview mirrors so rather than start drilling holes I opted for the clip-on.

Tomorrow, work allowing, I will be on the phone to Quickfit to find out where my belts are, you remember the ones? They were going to be ready last Tuesday, after previously being told they'd be ready the previous Wednesday, then the Thursday 'maybe'. Well, no call on Tuesday so I was going to call them Wednesday but had to nip off oop north with work and then spent Fri night - Sun morning on South Coast with family before mad rush back to the Smoke to see Jack today.

So it's nearly 2 weeks after I ordered them and was told they'd be done the following day!!!

Also, that lovely Motolita steering wheel in the picture above does not line up at all with the existing boss. Not just the different number of holes, the pcd of the holes is completely different. I'll have to find the boss it came with and try that. Another problem with it is that being a flat non-dished version it's going to touch the dash making it impossible to steer properly! I'll see how it is with the other boss and maybe investigate a 'spacer to fit between the boss and the wheel.

Failing that it may find itself on eBay!

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Hey Baz, I know you said the pics flatter her and that but she really does look good!

I do like those sportspack alloys as well
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LNK's MOT is booked for 2pm today!

Watch this space for the result some time after 3pm.

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Oh the MOT ???

Booked for 2pm.

Left at 1245pm (just in case :wink: )

Broke down on A40 at 1pm - same trouble as last time. Tried everything but still wouldn't start.

Called AA at 1.16pm.

AA arrived at 1.35pm.

AA declared distributer and probably coil both dead at 1.55pm.

Phoned MOT garage to cancel appointment at 1.57pm.

Recovery truck arrived at 2.55pm.

LNK put back under its cover in Finchley at 3.35pm. :evil:

Now is my brand new Lucas Sport coil still in the lock-up or did that go walkies along with numerous other spares of ours when Si's old Sport was collected :? :evil:

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Yeah. C'mon, Baz! Let's get LNK through the MOT! :D

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Yeah, I'm gonna go through my tools and try to double up so LNK and Madge can each have a toolkit on board.

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One 1 1/2 inch will be fine Baz, or how about a 1 3/4 for good measure.

If I were you I would go for an Hs rather than a HIF. Hs has the float chamber on the side liek what you probably be used to Baz, the HIF has an integral float chamber bellow which makes things a little more complex IMHO

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Cool!
Be intrigued to see how you get on with this Baz.

What's the black box bit actually for?
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It's the brains of the electronic ignition, at least I think it is! I think it receives signals from the dizzy and it tells the coil when to do it's thing. Or something like that anyway.

I'm no expert (as you may have guessed from the preceeding paragraph!) and I doubt my own ability to get it running. Still, the dizzy is in much the same position as the old one so hopefully the timing will be close enough for it to fire up, then I can fiddle with it to get a smooth idle etc.

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Well, I fitted the black box to the n/s inner wing and completed the wiring. Due to my chosen location for the black box I had to turn the coil 180 degrees so the wires from the coil would reach. This required lengthening the power lead that goes to the coil.

Once this was done everything was connected and the earth lead re-connected to the battery.

Moment of truth time. I tried to start it.............................................
and it burst into life :shock: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D

It ran a bit rough so I let it warm up then loosened off the dizzy clamp and played around with the timing until it was running as smooth as I could get it. It ran up to full temperature quite happily but semed to be idling quite fast.

I switched off and decided to wire up the tacho I'd fitted a couple of weeks ago. This went really well and before long I again started her up. She started and ran nicely and the tacho appeared to be working fine. I could see that she was indeed idling quite fast - about 1300 rpm.

So I adjusted the idle down to about 800 rpm - again all going well.

So that's ign fitted and working nicely = One Step Forward
Tacho wired up and working nicely = Two Steps Forward

So I still had to wire the tacho into the dash lighting circuit. I found the red wire coming from the light switch and while I was looking for a suitable place from which to take power to the tacho light I realised I'd knocked the indicator switch on. I'd left the ignition on (I know Steve! Always disconnect the battery etc) and the green tell tale light was on but not flashing. Neither indicator would flash with or without the engine running.

Also, I have no dashboard lights. They worked before, as did the indicators. The only wiring I've (knowingly) disturbed is in the engine bay for the ign. I looked but cannot find the flasher unit - then it started raining so I packed up. Where exactly is it usually?

So no indicators means can't get MOT = One Step backwards.

Forgot to take my camera out to the car so pictures will have to wait.

Any ideas re the lights/indicators? I don't want to be stripping out the dash if I can help it. The rear lights are those LED ones. The lights on the car all work normally except the indicators which just come on permanently without flashing.

I might go out to the car tonight and try the dash lights again, just in case they don't show up at all in daylight.

Oh well, I was hoping to get LNK MOT'd in time for Dorset but at this rate I'm going to struggle. Madge is awaiting new clutch cylinders and my modern is due it's MOT in a couple of weeks and tax tomorrow!

Aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!
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Cheers Dave :lol:

I'll try to find it tomorrow but I'm moving all my spares out of Rich's lock-up into a new one. As it includes half a dozen engines and about 10 transaxles and I'm doing it in my Previa, it'll probably take most of the day!

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Cheers Paul, the rears are LED but have always worked fine. At the time of it's last breakdown en route to the MOT about 3 weeks ago they were working. I've not had a reason to try them since and now they don't work. :(

No chance to do anything today and a very busy week ahead at work so unlikely to get anything done before the weekend when I'm almost certainly going to be very busy too :(

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Baz,when I fitted led indicators to my bike,they came with little resistors to make them work.

I know they are available separately,so maybe try a bike shop for some?
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Finished work early today after a long week of early starts and late finishes.

Decided to have a look at LNK's indicators. Started her up (no problem :D ) and switched the indicators on. Just a solid light, no flash. So it hadn't fixed itself then!

Took out the flasher unit from the column shroud (cheers Dave :wink: ) and opened it up. Looked a bit 'tarnished' so I blew the dust out of it and connected the wires. It very slowly began to work, worked even better when I revved the engine. So it works then?!

Then I realised that the ign light does not come on when it should. Ah! That gets it's feed from the small wire in the back of the alternator. So I traced that wire from the alternator across the engine bay towards the battery where it connects to the wire going into the sill and away to the dash. This connection was broken. :!: :idea: Remade the connection and the ign light is working. The indicators are flashing at the proper speed too!!!!

I also noticed that the dash lights were working after all, I'd previously looked in sunlight so probably couldn't make out the feeble glow (either that or they were somehow affected by the broken alt' wire). So I finished wiring up the tacho.

So all appears to be fine again in the world of LNK :D Now I just have to try to find time to get her MOT'd before Dorset.

Finally ordered Madge's new clutch master and slave from Speedy Spares, they're in stock and being despatched today - so, postal strike allowing, they should be here before next weekend which is the first chance I'll have to fit them.

Things are looking better! Let's just hope LNK passes!
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The alternator warning light actually feeds power TO the alternator! It is the exciter wire. Without excitation, the alternator will not generate power. :?

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G1t! :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Well, yesterday she went for the MOT. Ran quite well bearing in mind I've not set the timing properly yet! Most importantly, she didn't break down :D 8) .

A bit of rust on the wheelarch near the sill didn't bother Mr MOT, neither did the blowing exhaust. 8)

Unfortunately, when finished, the word he uttered began with 'F' and ended with 'ail'. :( :cry:

Fortunately, she only failed on a lack of grease in the kingpins :oops: causing slight movement (probably would've got away with an advisory if not for the rot) - new grease should sort that. Plus two small bits of rot on the nearside, one requiring a patch about the size of a fag packet, the other about the size of a matchbox.

If I'm very lucky Glen will be able to do the welding and lend me his grease gun on Saturday. Then I just need to get her back to Mr MOT for a re-test next week in time for her inaugural run down to Poole, Dorset next weekend.

We're getting there, 'baby-steps' and all that :wink:
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Great news, Baz! :D :D Looking forward to seeing LNK some day.

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Good stuff Baz, getting there slowly is much better than not getting there at all :wink: good luck with your welding and retest. Get down to tescos cand get yourself some 99 octane for when you set the ignition timing up and keep using that :D they deserve the best. I figuered seing as its only an extra 40p a week or so its probably worth it.
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I was half expecting much worse, no real reason really, just being pessimistic I suppose. :roll:

99 octane Pat? Maybe, but I've got a full tank of 95 in her at the moment so I'll probably set her up on that for now. Hopefully she'll be getting her 930 fitted in the next month or two! :D
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yeah always a must before the MOT, whack loadsa grease into the kingpins (really thick gooey stuff if its really worn. I bet you could fit a new set and get a fail though!
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Baz if the nipples are blocked soak them in some penatrative oil or heat them up to soften the clogging grease.
Yep 99 octane, most tescos only have 97 I think, but if you are lucky like I am in bristol you can have 99 8) and if you are very lucky you can get 102, I believe there is one in Nottingham that does 102 :D
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Cheers Matt :D

Sell the Clan, keep the Imp :wink:
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Well done Baz.Great news. :D
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Gave LNK a fluid checkover this afternoon and LNK had no fluid in the Clutch reservoir :( The clutch is still working OK so i'm hoping it's just bled a load of air out as I've been driving to and from Glen's and the MOT garage. It's got a new Master fitted so if there's a problem it's probably the Slave. Anyway, I've topped it up and I'll see if its moved overnight.
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Well, LNK continues to surprise me. On Saturday evening, in pouring rain, we took just 90 minutes to do the 100 miles from Finchley to my parent's place in Fareham.

No heater though so bl***y cold toes! It did work, I think the HG is causing it to lose water creating an air lock in the heater - will be sorted eventually.

Last night watched Top Gear at my brother's place in Fareham, left for Finchley avoiding motorways and filling up in Fareham. Got to my digs at 10.35pm - 95 mins including the petrol stop.

And this is with a standard engine with a dying HG on a slowlex and standard (blowing) exhaust! Should be a bit better with a sorted 930 running a sport man and system and 1.5" SU! :D
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LYH was relocated to his new home today. Rich (Actuarius Impetus) provided and drove the tow car and we got soaked to the skin and frozen messing about with trailers. Anyway, he's in his new garage now drying off a bit, LYH that is, Rich dried off at his place!. The mice were in evidence in the old garage so I'll probably put some 'food' down in the new garage to 'discourage' them from eating the car etc. No photos 'cos I forgot to take my camera. :oops:

Just need to hire a van next week to clear a mountain of spares/tools/other belongings etc out of the garage.
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Drove LNK down to Fareham yesterday and the clutch has started to slip quite badly. :cry: Just hope it lasts through the trip to Dorset tomorrow and back to London Sunday evening. :D

Then LNK will be off the road until I've got a new clutch kit and some Comp doughnuts, then it will all get done at the same time as the 930.

Found the boss for my early 60's Motolita steering wheel when I cleared out my garage on Thursday, my Dad has just turned it on his lathe removing the stove enamelled black paint and polishing it up nice :D
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hmmm, i can look and find out when that clutch was last changed, i can safely say in the 1900's not in the 2000's. I believe it was about 1982! Which is probably over 50k miles.

Oh the fuel gauge i calibrated, as the sender is one that i repaired. It runs out bang on empty.
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See now, you keep coming up with all this info now, but you never mentioned it before when I asked you for any info etc a few months back! :lol:

Now think Steve, very carefully, is there anything else you want to tell me about LNK? :lol:
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Here's a picture of the Baz fleet (minus LYH) as of today.

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from the left: LNK (awaiting 930 Sport and new clutch), Madge (running on 3 has spark - compression???), The Previa (awaiting new disc and pads for MOT then eBay), The Passat (replacement for Previa) and the company car (for now). As you can see I have plenty of space for more! :D
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Finally got round to dropping off the Alley Cat style alloys for refurb and satin black powder coat. Price has gone up recently by £5/wheel so instead of £160 the bill will be £180. But that's 4 wheels chemically cleaned, refurbed/repaired where required, powder-coated satin black, my tyres fitted with a new valve and balanced. Still pretty good value IMHO. Same company fsmlittler used for his Clan wheels.
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Here's one of the wheels as collected, the other three are just the same ;)
Once my nice new shiney (one 'n' Chris!) stainless steel wheelnuts arrive I'll put them on LNK and take some pics.
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Just realised Madge has been deleted from this thread :cry: Miserable GTi's! :lol:
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