It Lives Again
 

Engine ran again today(1.8cvh) for the first time in about 18 months.Frightened the life out of me when it fired not least because I had my hand over the carb to try and choke it. I ran around the workshop jumping up and down heart rate at about 120 beats / sec.:D Then had to go outside to relieve the CO poisoning.

I need to tidy the wiring up now then its bodywork.The important thing is a major cycle illogical milestone reached.;)

Ill post some pics of the first run out of the garage when we get a couple of dry days:)

Awesome mate a massive achievement, will give you a bell soon and pop up for a nose

Arfon

Thanks Arfon. I hope you are managing to make some progress.I dug out the long johns so I could work in the garage:D
Ran it again today( must get the waterworks fixed up):o

I can just picture this scenario :D

A huge well done on this major milestone of your build, indeed it is a great feeling ( no, not the CO poisoning ).

Look forward to seeing the video, as I was once told..." no video means it didn,t happen " :p :D

cheers
andy

Just been up to Ayjay's, looking good mate, will definatly have the contact info for the loom sometime. Thanks for the coffee mate and i will bring the needle files and thread file up on monday

Seeing is believing
 

good work fella,
Hope to be able to drive mine out the garage in the next couple of months to.

:cool: Nice one :cool:

cheers
andy

Take off is very " snatchy" poss due to lack of any shock absorbing donuts in the prop shaft.Is this normal ? Prop is D&F .Can the problem be improved?

get a 1.3 capri clutch cable its shorter than the sierra one and can be adjusted to stop the clutch snatching

Cheers Ash:)

Thats brilliant mate, congrats on a great achievement.

cheers Arfon----Check PM s please

Congratulations mate. Sometimes I miss the Facebook's "I like" button here :)

Did you spot your lovely SS braided hoses Sylvain:)

Hardly... but I can see they work : you can stop :)

Just won an auction for a brand new 1.3 Capri clutch cable.
£2.99 + £2.50pp:D :D :D

Looking like a car
 

Got 3 sheets of ali and started to make templates.
Car is now completely clad inside and out in white card.
Looks neat.I'm tempted to paint it-----noooooooo:D

Got my Capri clutch cable yesterday,trial fitted it today .Shorter than the sierra one and has a long adjustment thread to take up slack.A lot better than the sierra one. Good call Ash:)

Found my brake MC has been secretly leaking down the pedal box and floor - ruined the paint and made a right mess:mad:

Ho hum you win some you lose some:o

fuel filler
 

The fuel filler neck from my donor Sierra is a good fit over the filler stub on my ali tank.
Is there any petrol resistant sealant I can use to fit it ?
If so my filler would be accessed by opening the top panel over the rear tub Would that be IVA acceptable ?

Is that a "no" then? :o

At work we use araldite, but the fuel never comes into contact with the glue in the situation we use it. Maybe best to use a piece of proper rubber hose and a clamp. I recall from previous that if your fuel filler cap is in the boot area it needs to be left open and not closed off although I stand to be corrected.

Thanks Oz.
That makes sense .However I cant seem to find a sensibly priced exterior fitting fuel cap that wont break the bank .All the motorcycle type ones seem to be an arm and two legs

I got mine from rally design but there is always ;
Europa spares
Cbs
Burton power
And I think tifosi

Quietly getting there
 

A bit of progress:)

Thats a good bit of tin bashing. Thumbs up.

Bob

Nice As.......
TT

external fuel fillers
 

Ebay: type in deck fillers start @£10 for plastic

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HOLT-YS850...item3f1789c15c

seems cheap, would it do the job

I could be tempted with that, especially at that price

Bargin, wish I had known about that before I bought mine!!

I always understood that the fuel cap needs to be locked.Whats the position on it please.
Those deck fillers look good ---if It will get past IVA !

Any wise thoughts on the above please

just had a quick look at the IVA manual and it seems that if it is not lockable then the cap must be tethered to the tank or body......see below

15. A fuel filler cap must positively locate to the filler neck and incorporate an
adequate sealing arrangement so that a fuel leak is not possible.
16. The fuel filler cap must either be tethered to the vehicle or be of a lockable
type where the key can only be removed when the cap is locked or an
automatically opening and closing, non-removable fuel filler cap
(Post 0 5 / 2009 vehicles only)

so I guess the deck filler would pass if it is tethered in some way.

Just been surfing on the bay and I notice some of these deck fillets actually have a tether fitted and there are some quite nice looking stainless ones (also a pretty cheezy plastic chrome one :D)

Russ

Thanks guys .:)

(I quite liked the cheesy plastic chrome one ):o

It doesn't look as bad as some I must admit :D

Russ

Am I the only one who removed the filler pipe with the lockable filler cap off the Sierra with hopes of fitting it to the roadster?

I am using the original filler pipe at present. I have to lift the rear lid to fill it. However it is not the locking cap because it was the locking flap type. It works perfectly well but as I understand things ,if it is inside the 'boot' then the boot must not be covered.

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