bstardchild
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Jan 27, 2012 15:40:29 GMT
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This is the oil I used I suppose there are various oils I could have used so asked the question on the Autbahnstormers forum as it is dedicated to the Vauxhall/Opel straight 6. I liked one guy's reply so went for the 20W50 in the picture and the car is running great on it but I suppose could be running great on many different oils. The older CIH engines don't much like running modern thin oil - ABS is a good place for advice I use Millers 15/60W in my 24V Monza
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Jan 27, 2012 23:08:42 GMT
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If its got hydraulic lifters, 10w40 semisynthetic is the oil to run in my experience. The lifters doesnt like mineral oil, wich makes the engine rattle a bit
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foxy99
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darrenh yeah it was in this thread so you are right. Just different colours really Hope it goes to a good owner bstardchild, MadMaxx I'm pretty sure mine doesn't have hydraulic lifters. I should know this! Wish I could paste up the advice I got on Autobahnstormers but I changed my toolbar to Google Chrome this week and lost all my favourites and can't get back into the forum as I can't remember my username
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Last Edit: Jan 28, 2012 2:09:11 GMT by foxy99
1974 Daimler Double-Six VDP 1965/67 Hillman Imp pick-up 1984 VW Polo breadvan 1970s Yamaha Twins (4) 1976 Honda SS50ZK1
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bstardchild
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Jan 28, 2012 11:42:13 GMT
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darrenh yeah it was in this thread so you are right. Just different colours really Hope it goes to a good owner bstardchild, MadMaxx I'm pretty sure mine doesn't have hydraulic lifters. I should know this! It does Wish I could paste up the advice I got on Autobahnstormers but I changed my toolbar to Google Chrome this week and lost all my favourites and can't get back into the forum as I can't remember my username Well it will be your real name for starters with your membership number in front of it... Oh and the other thing wouldn't be a good idea
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foxy99
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Jan 28, 2012 18:31:03 GMT
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hydraulic lifters....who knew About the user name. I can't remember the number but know my password Am thinking of emailing someone in the club and they can tell me my number from last post I made. You still in it BC?
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Jan 28, 2012 20:21:33 GMT
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Think they switched to hydraulic lifters in the late sixties actually My `67 Rekord has mechanical lifters, my `70 Rekord Caravan has hydraulic ones, and they are both 1.7n engines Easy to spot the difference, the mechanical lifter ones will not stop rattling no matter what you do with the oil ;D I`ve found that even the cheapest 10w40 i can get around here is allright for my Commodore with a `86 2.5E engine, when on mineral oil it rattled and leaked quite a bit, when on semisynthetic its quiet(er), and doesnt leak
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Last Edit: Feb 4, 2012 0:41:41 GMT by foxy99
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Totally forgot to fling up a picture of my Senator, its the later facelifted model, but still not a bad looking car. No comment on the mug of the fellow in the picture though ;D (yes its me )
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Feb 18, 2012 16:38:11 GMT
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Interesting to see the Senator with the Royale-type Ronal wheels MadMaxxSmall update today. Well, not really an update more of a query: I went to change the air filter the other day and had a nosey round the carb and air filter housing. It is surprisingly similar to the first car I owned (1982 Polo 1043cc). That is perhaps not too surprising tho as altho the cars aren't connected in any way they were both built in Germany about a year apart and have Solex carbs. Before everyone starts saying 'best thing you can do with a Solex is bin it' etc etc I don't hold with that. I believe when a car is built they go thru stringent checks in all conditions and they do work before being released on sale. Problems can arise later and due to lack of knowledge/skill on the part of the person working on the car its easy, but not always correct, to blame the original design. I have had Polos run like sewing machines on the Solex PIC(T) carb and also had nightmare problems with them but that is partly due to myself and mechanics not having a clue how they work. I had around 10 mechanics try to sort the idle fault on my Polo and it turned out the problem had been caused by someone fitting the wrong jet to the outside of the carb. I also heard that all the drillings are so small they get clogged up and the petrol can't get thru so the carb has to be scrapped. I decided to investigate this and butchered a Solex carb (still have it) and removed all the lead plugs from the passageways and they were all clean as a whistle. The idle problem on the Polos is more to do with having the wrong points gap believe it or not. Anyway. Back to the Royale. You may notice inside the air filter hosing there is a little orange gadget. A thin hose connects from this to a suction operated flap on the spout part which lets warm air in from the exhaust manifold. The gadget has 2 connectors. One has nothing attached to it on the Royale. On the Polo there was a small rubber hose that lead to a connection under the throttle plate. I think the idea was that the flap mechanism only workes at idle when the vacuum under the plate is high. If the throttle is opened the vacuum collapses and the flap in the air cleaner spout falls down again. Anyone know if there should be a hose on this connector for the Royale too? 2nd observation is that the new air cleaner is a lot bigger although it does still fit inside the housing. 3rd thing I noticed (but can't be captured on picture) is that the stop lever on the auto/thermo choke flap mechanism is very loose rattly. Can't see that this would in itself be a problem but it just seemed a bit strange. air cleaner lid removed. reddish plastic gizmo at bottom of shot controls flap in inlet horn which allows hot air from manifold into housing old filter on top of new. is it really that much bigger?housing removed reveals mushy end to breather hosebreather hose goes in here. hi-techBad Boy 4 barrel unpopular Solex carbthin plastic pipe connects gizmo to aanother vacuum gizmo on spoutmetal flap in closed positionif you suck hard on hose the flap opensabove circular thermo-choke housing is a little lever which abuts against something at 5 o'clock to halt its travel. mechanism is strangely loose
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Last Edit: Feb 18, 2012 16:58:14 GMT by foxy99
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That little orange unit is a thermo vac switch that senses the air temp in the housing. It has a vac feed from the carb to the switch, then out to the flap. When the engine is cold and then started the switch opens and allows vacuum to open the flap allowing the warm heat from the exhaust manifold to warm the incoming air helping to vaporise the fuel.
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Hows that breather hose held into the valve cover? It looks like a fitting is missing!
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bstardchild
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Mar 14, 2012 13:16:28 GMT
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About the user name. I can't remember the number but know my password Am thinking of emailing someone in the club and they can tell me my number from last post I made. You still in it BC? PM me your real name and I'll sort it out with the admin team
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bstardchild I got back into the site a while ago. I've now written my membership no. down so I won't have the problem again. Thanks for the offer jetfiremuck Yep. I reckon there must be something that connects to sensor to the carb. Would be interesting to see what difference it makes if it was re-connected. Its not summer yet so I may still experience flap assisted warm air carburation. I'll check the parts list and see if there should be something connecting the hose to the rocker cover....some type of oil trap perhaps. Incidentally I now have an electric aerial (from an early Senator) which I will fit to my wing when the weather brightens up and I tackle the dent/paint from the bump it took back in October. aerial sourced thru Autobahnstormers from an early Sentor not quite same as old one but should fit fine. was only £10 inc P&P
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Last Edit: Mar 19, 2012 1:37:01 GMT by foxy99
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bstardchild
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Mar 16, 2012 19:50:45 GMT
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bstardchild I got back into the site a while ago. I've now written my membership no. down so I won't have the problem again. Thanks for the offer Excellent - see you on that side too
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jetfiremuck I have taken a snapshot of the parts list re the cranckcase breather (I assume this hose coming out rocker cover leading to air cleaner is classed as the cranckcase ventilation system). It suggests there was some sort of clip. The illustration plate for that section doesn't really help.
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Last Edit: Mar 20, 2012 3:00:53 GMT by foxy99
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Not a progress-post as such this time. More of a question....
Where can I get (black) 1K acrylic paint?
I know you can get celly quite easily - which I might be forced to use, and I'm def not using 2K - but I want to try 1K acrylic.
In the US you can buy it with the correct thinners etc (brands like Sherwin Williams or PPG Autocryl) but you can't seem to get it in the UK.
The irony is that the rattle-can celly that you can by here is invariably actually acrylic.
My Royale still has a lot of its original paint and the brochure says they were painted in acrylic (TPA) so it would make sense to use that. Also I have painted my motorbikes with Metalflake brand 1K acrylic and it is geat stuff imo.
As far as I know nitrocellulose lacquer hasn't been used in car production since the 20s/30s. Before 2K it was thermoplastic acrylic (TPA) that was on cars so it seems strange that restorers/DIY use cellulose.
The rust on the sills etc of the old beast is looking shameful just now and, against my better judgement, I've decided to sandblast them and get some paint on as soon as we get some dry weather.
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Last Edit: Mar 22, 2012 2:20:38 GMT by foxy99
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Anyone know how I could get this little circlip off the distributor shaft? A long time ago I posted how I fitted new points and felt the screw threads strip.... Well, I got a new distributor quite cheaply and nothing up the top end of it is damaged but it has a bent shaft - God knows how that happened. My car has recently started idling at around 2000rpm so I feel a 'plugs, points, carb' tune up coming on therefore I decided to have a look at the 2nd hand dizzy. I think I posted a pic a while ago of the bent shaft and I figured I could maybe make best one out of two. Everything came apart quite easy until I got to this small circlip inside the advance/retard mechanism. There is no room or scope to get circlip pliers in and I've tried levering with tiny screwdrivers etc to no avail. I'm thinking perhaps its like a CV joint circlip in that the knock the component over it so it pops inside the groove in the shaft and lets the object ride over but perhaps not..... tiny brass coloured snap ring inside advance/retard mechanism. how do you remove it?can't argue with a teutonic part no.May 1979?
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Last Edit: Apr 7, 2012 16:25:32 GMT by foxy99
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Last Edit: May 16, 2012 2:22:18 GMT by foxy99
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