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Jun 21, 2020 14:10:19 GMT
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Temperature sensor. Other end operates a small Bourdon style assembly that regulates the valve to keep the same cabin temperature (apart from min/max that lock it fully closed or fully open). Phil I’ve said it before, but the Yanks were miles ahead of us weren’t they. Well, two factors at play there. First, an artificial booming economy being heavily bolstered by the government and second people here spend more time in their cars because of the additional distances covered due to there being a greater amount of geography here. So, in the upper end of the market there was call for more creature comforts- by the early 60's a car like this would have been power-eveything. Windows, seats, locks. If you were in a position to afford it, luxury was becoming the norm by then. Cars like mine paved the way, with automatic gears and luxury items (power steering and boosted brakes were at that point sold as assistance for those who needed it- plenty of wounded not long prior returned from the war) but by about 1956 they were being offered as an ease of use comfort item instead, for all to enjoy. Phil
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Last Edit: Jun 21, 2020 14:12:57 GMT by PhilA
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Jun 21, 2020 17:31:20 GMT
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Wow, that's pretty cool for a 60 year old car - almost like modern day climate control.
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Jun 21, 2020 17:36:36 GMT
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Earliest UK car I owned with that feature was my '71 Vauxhall Victor FD.
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Jun 21, 2020 19:58:36 GMT
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After an inordinate amount of pfaff I threw my flashlight across the garage. It broke. I managed to fit and adjust the air control levers so now air goes places that it should (mostly).
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Jun 21, 2020 23:27:58 GMT
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After an inordinate amount of pfaff I threw my flashlight across the garage. It broke. Sounds like it thoroughly deserved it!
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Jun 21, 2020 23:49:12 GMT
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I don't like abusing tools but it deserved it.
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I hate wearing them, but sometimes headlamps have their uses..
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I hate wearing them, but sometimes headlamps have their uses.. Same, same, but when I was doing a full brake overhaul in a gloomy multi-storey car park, it was a godsend!
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The lighting in my garage is modest, but up under the dash an inspection lamp is either too bulky or too hot. Those headlight things would get knocked off on the first pirouette to the floor you have to make to get in under the steering wheel though.
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Got sticky oily glue all over my fingers unraveling the looming tape to the alternator. Gonna replace the small gauge wire with something a little more beefy. Still too hot in the garage. This hot weather came in suddenly over the last week, up until now it's been unseasonably mild. Phil
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Jun 22, 2020 12:10:23 GMT
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A mercury switch and a 21w bulb under the bonnet is a useful addition.
I use the magnetic rechargable LED lamps - bloody useful.
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Jun 22, 2020 12:31:51 GMT
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A mercury switch and a 21w bulb under the bonnet is a useful addition. I use the magnetic rechargable LED lamps - bloody useful. It should actually have a lamp under the hood, operated by a switch. It used to have one, p/o removed it. Photos from 2015 show it in place. On a sprung reel, pulls out to use places and also sticks to the car with a red color on one side to act as a warning beacon if you break down at night on the highway. Trunk has mercury-switch operated light. Phil
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Jun 22, 2020 16:09:13 GMT
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Damnit, stop making me go look at eBay.
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Jun 22, 2020 16:21:29 GMT
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Jun 22, 2020 17:41:58 GMT
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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Jun 22, 2020 18:18:20 GMT
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I have this: It's not bad but suffers from Stupid Power Switch syndrome (probably a result of the damp, it's been behaving better since it's been stored inside). Good for area illumination but awkward in some situations because it illuminates sideways. (Read: rolls round perfectly to shine in your eyes because the heaviest bit wants to be downwards).
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Last Edit: Jun 22, 2020 18:34:20 GMT by PhilA
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Jun 22, 2020 21:11:26 GMT
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Glenn, a very good, but extremely depressing book about the British car industry is "Wheels of Misfortune: The Rise and Fall of the British Motor Industry" by Jonathan Wood. The small mindedness, lack of investment, terrible management <> labor relations and overall lack of vision will all ring true but make you wonder, "if they had just gotten their act together....where might we be now?"
Of course, America's companies also became fat, dumb and mediocre ... Enter the Japanese, with a mindset of constant improvement preached by an American, W. Edwards Deming, who'd tried coaching Detroit but had been comprehensively ignored.
Pride goeth before the fall, etc. John
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Jun 22, 2020 22:50:35 GMT
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Crimped and soldered a suitable o-ring into the end of the new wire I bought. Soldered up a couple more connectors that didn't need to be connectors any more, heat shrink covered them and then started to loom the wiring up. Redid the parallel resistance for the GEN light and got that tucked away under the dash. I had disconnected it in the last video which is why it took a fair number of engine revs to get it to begin to charge. Phil
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Jun 23, 2020 16:11:05 GMT
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I need to remember to run purple circuit out to where the under-hood light should be (on with all lights on).
It made me think I should run the Chief off the brown circuit. Dimmable (dash lighting circuit) lol
Phil
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Jun 25, 2020 18:11:45 GMT
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Having thoughts now about converting the ammeter to a voltmeter. The dash is marked BATTERY so volts would work (rather than the plastic being stamped AMPS or somesuch).
Thought here is to get another ammeter (the backplates are shaped differently for each), redo the face calibrated to 6-12-18 perhaps and then buy a temperature gauge, swap the guts out, replace the field coil with a permanent magnet, rewind the variance coin for 12V and have it work that way.
No, they didn't do a volts meter that fits for the year, and if they did, it would be 6V. Next question.
--Phil
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