1968 Singer Chamois (Yamaha R1 Powered) LPV433G

None whatsoever is a bit of a lie… obviously it has an engine loom but I mean in terms of the car there isn’t anything. I’ll start with stuff like cooling fans, fuel and diff pumps etc. A way of starting and stopping the car from the drivers seat without twisting two wires together and tapping another one on some power would be good too! Haha

Coming along nicely!

The assembly procedure for that propshaft must be a nightmare, but I'm sure you'll sort something out.

Oh and going back to your brackets, for the sake of a bit of sheet metal and 20 mins of your time, absolutely close them out while you can! If it can bend, it will.

Ok, if I get time I'll add some side strength to the engine mounts....

Today I spent a long time 4-5hrs on trying to bleed the brakes and clutch.

First was an easy one... sorting blocked bleed nipples on the clutch and front brakes.





I had a few weeping joints so tightened them all up. Issue is that I don't have any swivels so this essentially this leads to me rebuilding the brake system to take out the twists in the line between the T's then re fitting the lines out to the calipers.

After all of this I still had a spongy brake. There were still weeps..... on all of the ports on the recycled T's. The brand new one I bought for the rear was fine. My conclusion is that these old T's have shaped and hardened to the old copper fittings. The copper flared end used to create the seal and all was good. Now that I have braided lines the steel on old brass isn't cutting the custard. I've ordered some new T's to give this a go tomorrow.

As for the clutch I tried for a long time and a few different ways of bleeding the system passing lots of fluid through. I still couldn't get a the clutch to do anything. First thought was that the piston in the master cylinder was stuck so took this apart and it was dirty but ok.


Still nothing so turned my attention to the slave. I had to knock this up with a tap from a hammer... it got stuck up in the cylinder!


However with a press of the pedal it moved and started working well.

About 4pm I finaly got onto looking at some wiring. My gauges arrived... pretty unlikely any of these will function for the gathering.

Engine oil pressure
Engine oil temp
Front radiator temp (engine temp is on the R1 clocks)
Diff oil temp
Volts



I bought a thread adaptor knowing the sensor didn't fit in the diff manifold... well this isn't going work. Doh.


I can see where this is going but making my own is just time consuming.




I came in tonight at 11:30pm having laid all the wires for everything at the rear. I'm already onto my second 100m wire spool.

This is most excellent.

Just noticed in your signature we have a shared live for old Lambo's, are there any pictures on here/somewhere?

P.

Late one... 2am. Here are some pictures...

Some wiring happened.


It still starts so at least I haven't made anything worse!


My parents came over and brought my E30 with them as well as collecting a M52 engine and kit of parts on the way... a new thread for another day.


We have some pretty lights..


At about 11:30pm... dad said "can I wrap the exhaust." I said "crack on the wraps over there )


2hrs later....






Mean while I did more wiring things .... we're getting there.

Dude make time for it, seriously.. they're right there! 

If they flex, which they will, your engine is more or less free to rotate about the vertical axis. That's going to cause havoc with your driveshafts and unless they flex enough to bend permanently you'll be scratching your head trying to work out what the problem is. 

All you need to do is weld in a little square of sheet and that's one less potential headache when you come to drive it. 

Did you get a job lot on white wire???

I know some alarms use all black wire to make it harder to cut it out of the system but clearly your labelling system works!!!!

Starts and runs - has pretty dash - has ability to stop

Add seats drag to RRG and you are done surely?

That's going to be fun to troubleshoot in the future! Although I have seen that you can get label printers that can print onto heatshrink, which is ideal for labelling wires. Could be a job in the future to get a bunch of different colours of heatshrink and go through the loom labelling the wires.

If you fancied rewiring it with coloured stuff at some point in the future, or if anyone else wants to, I've found the best way to get lots of different coloured wires is to head down to your local scrapyard and start pulling looms out of cars there. I've found the rear looms of vans to be particularly useful as you get long lengths of the same coloured wire, but it tends to work out cheaper than buying lots of different colours of new wire (and you get two-coloured wires a lot easier).

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