Stratton Jimmer
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That's a lovely shade of dark green on your Vit JohnD.
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You must have been burning the midnight oil as your clock indicates that it's 12:25. Too early in the morning for me!
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Craig has advised today that the January meeting will take place on Tuesday 11th at the Foxham as usual. He will be arriving late, circa 20:30. Rose and I will be there from about 20:00.
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I last did this job about 1982 on a girlfriend's GT6 Mk2 non OD. I did as Wagger did and disconnected the propshaft. I seem to remember that there was a bit of a difference between the length of the rubber on the new and old bushes but the old ones were starting to break up.
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Welcome indeed Brian. Anyone with a love for old bikes and Triumph cars has got to be a top notch bloke! I only ever had one Velocette and that left me back in the mid to late 70s when coincidentally I also sold on my last Vitesse when I "upgraded" to a Mk1 GT6.
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On 06/01/2022 at 16:45, Stratton Jimmer said:
it was a 3/8 UNF.
That should have read that it was a 3/16th UNF!
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12 hours ago, PeteH said:
What your water like? (hard soft), how often do you need to washout?.
Our water is extracted under licence from the River Ray only some six miles from its source but between there and us there is a Thames Water treatment plant which processes the waste from the 200,000 or more individuals that live in the Swindon area. The water in consequence is very hard and high in nitrates. One of my colleagues who was a metallurgist with the CEGB specialising in turbine blades had the water tested and developed a scheme for water treatment. Use of this scheme is open to the owners of each locomotive and one in particular refuses to use it. His loco regularly develops leaking tubes, suffers from regulator blow through and has had the steam brake fail due to calcium deposits building up in the brake valve. It also primes a good deal. He tells us that "I know best what's good for my engine". He's an idiot!
His loco requires washout every seven or eight steamings while others which use the water treatment regime go as many as twenty steaming between washouts.
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One of my Mk3 GT6 sun visor bolts had a sheared off head. I drilled it out and it was a 3/8 UNF. In doing so, I damaged the thread and so I re-tapped the hole with a 1/4 UNF and used an Allen dome head set screw to refit the visor.
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20 hours ago, Pete Lewis said:
a good hand pull on a normal spanner will get you a good night sleep
Very true! Spanners are the size they are to limit the torque that can be applied with one hand for a bloke of average build and strength. We have tapered washout plugs on our steam locos (I volunteer on the S&CR as a loco fitter and driver). We only allow a small number of qualified staff to remove and refit these as it is so easy to cross threads or damage them by over tightening. These plugs are often of gunmetal and the only sealing compound allowed is graphite grease.
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Is Chrome available for Apple Macs? If so, I would download that and use it for the forum - always excellent! Editing but I just googled it and Chrome is available for Mac machines.
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Lovely photos and a great help thanks Peter.
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4 hours ago, Wagger said:
Has loads of useful Vices, unlike me.
I have loads of vices but none of them are useful!
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Thanks Pete. I figured they were CDSE versions but never having had a car with these fitted, hadn't a clue how to go about adjusting them or connecting them up. I looked in the Haynes manual (filed under F for fiction) and it is rather ambiguous as it doesn't show a pair with all of their interconnecting pipework etc. If anyone has these fitted to their engine, I would really appreciate a few photos showing all of those interconnections.
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1 hour ago, Pete Lewis said:
see the uj mod done on the stromberg post this week
I did see that thanks Pete. It looks to be a very tidy job. I do have an old pair of CD150s which are intended for another project and might think about using those instead of the SUs. I can't remember where these came from but most likely from one of my brothers or from an autojumble at Stafford. I'm not even sure what they are off. Here's a couple of pics...
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My engine is allegedly a "Triumphtune" unit so should have a harder cam but without dismantling it, there's no way of being sure. The PO told me that the car was taken off the road for conversion to a race car before that project was abandoned and he got hold of it and returned it to the road. At that time it was initially painted black but the PO repainted it in Delft Blue. I know that's irrelevant to this thread but it just goes to show how important it is to have a decent history file with your car. I'm shooting in the dark really! Mind you, I would still sacrifice a little top end power for improved reliability. These carbs were fitted with K&N pancake filters which were damaged to the extent they were useless. And the car was advertised as being "VGC"! I'm just pleased that I didn't pay anything near the asking price. Burlen advertise a choke and throttle linkage kit but the HS4 version is only suitable for MGB. I wonder if the HS6 version would fit the HS4 carbs?
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Cheers Clive. Burlen here I come...
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Dave Clark Five wasn't it Pete? Looking at the Rimmer's catalogue for the Spit, they show the attached which is what seems to have been fitted to the front carb. I think I will get a kit and fit that plus a new set of linkage for the choke and a new throttle link too as I can then reroute the throttle cable to enter the fray across the engine rather than vertically where it gets kinked by the bonnet. These jets will be right for a Spit but not for a 2.0L so that may be a problem. A pal has a Haynes manual all about SU carbs. He's going to lend it to me so I can see what they say before committing to a false purchase. Does anyone have HS4 carbs on a 2.0L engine? If so, what jets and needles are you using?
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Thanks everyone for your responses. I will reply in more detail later as the boss has chores for me this morning.
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1 hour ago, Mathew said:
Is the jet gummed up or bent? Thought hs6 would be better , for higher revs. But if it runs well don't fix whats not broken!
If I disconnect the choke assembly, the jet moves up and down quite freely. It seems to have been modified while the rear carb's jet is an original.
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The GT6 was fitted with a pair of HS4 SUs by the PO. I'm enclosing two pictures of the result. Having finished the gearbox remote rebuild and the CD driveshaft mod my next task was the non-working OD which I found to be a caused by a bullet connector being open circuit. So this week I moved on to the carbs. Removing the two pancake filters which were holed, revealed that the two carbs have different jets. Only the front carb is connected to the choke cable and there is no linkage between the two. The jet on the rear carb is held in position by the fuel line as the choke arm is not connected nor is it connectable. The beast was running rather rich and I have turned the jet stops back to the weakest position possible.
The front carb's choke didn't return to an off position when the choke knob was pushed home. It didn't do it when the mechanism was manually moved either. There appears to be some stiction causing the jet to stick in a slightly lowered position. A slight upward press with a finger seated it properly. The carbs have not been balanced nor the mixture adjusted accurately. Now despite all of this, the engine runs quite sweetly and motors along very well with a good throttle response. Starting isn't as good as I would like it but with choke only working on half the engine that is to be expected. I think the way forward is to change the rear carb jet to match the front, get a new set of choke linkage bits and start from scratch. The throttle cable is also an issue as it enters the fray vertically from above! Does anyone have any thoughts as to why the front jet doesn't fully rise with the choke cable slack?
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An advertisement has appeared in the local Facebook "for sales". It is for a Mk1 Vitesse - C reg 1965 with a note saying it is sound but in need of some TLC. The owner has advertised the price at £3500. If anyone is interested, contact me and I will endeavour to put you in contact with the vendor.
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Love this thread. That is very perceptive work Josef.
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I too run around in a 1200 Jazz which is now 13 years old. Its original set of rear tyres lasted 56,000 miles and fuel economy is typically around 44mpg around town but can go up to 60ish on a run. The current wife has a 2.0L Golf mk6 Sportline Estate which averages 56mpg but once when travelling Swindon to Hemel Hempstead via M4, M25 and A41 with cruise control set at 60mph, recorded 81mpg according to its trip computer.
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I finally managed to get to talk to Richard. His landlord is vastly upping the charge on the premises which makes running the business from there unaffordable. He is looking for alternative premises but is doubtful of finding any. In consequence, he is taking the steps described to sell off his stock. If anyone should know of a suitable barn or warehouse in the vicinity of Swindon, Wiltshire, let me know and I will pass on the details to Richard. He is a difficult chap to contact at the moment as he is contracting at the Post Office.
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We used to catch those MR buses between Birmingham and London quite frequently when I was a boy. They were designed to do 100MPH and did so often. At least one of them had a repeater speedo which could be seen by the passengers showing that the magic "ton" had been achieved.