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May 20, 2024 12:29:07 GMT
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Hey Folks! Another week, another weekly chat, your place for stuff that may not warrant a full thread or stuff that is just going on right now that you want to share. Weeeeeeeellllll that was fun. Or should I say once it got started it was fun, the couple of weeks leading up to the Weekender were hellish, however the show turned out great, the weather was very much on our side (I'm not sure who I owe my soul to now, but I suspect it is some weather god!). So how have you been? Show season is well and truly started, race season has started, there is going to be something on every weekend from now until some point in September (and probably beyond). What you planning? I've got a mountain of work to get back to now, RR 20th Birthday Camp Out event being the most pressing. I REALLY need to get some more updates on the forum layout done, I've been using the improved image uploader for months and forget that others haven't. Also the period after the events where images get shared all over the place has reminded me that we used to have our own galleries, maybe something I need to resurrect so there is an obvious place for people to share their car show photos (more specifically our shows, but others too ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ). Previous Thread: forum.retro-rides.org/thread/226968/chat-thread-swan-wc-29
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May 20, 2024 13:24:17 GMT
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Missed Weekender for various reasons, looked a cracking event as ever. So shall work harder to get to Mallory! Went to Doorslammers at Santa Pod for the day yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it, far more eclectic than a normal race meet I thought. Was weird being driven there and then abandoned to wander around on my own… guess that’s absolute confirmation that I’m old ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) And went to a wedding on Friday for drag racing mate, with aircooled wedding cars from various places, so I’ll add a photo of that
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May 20, 2024 14:31:02 GMT
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Is that the Retro Rides Support Bus I see!?
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misteralz
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May 20, 2024 15:02:46 GMT
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I was over in Norfolk for the first time in a decade this weekend, for an anniversary celebration. I got gifted some ex-REME Bahco tools, which I was really touched by, tinged with an air of 'what am I going to do with these?' as they're all Whitworth. Part of me wants to donate them to one of the WW2 groups around here, as it'd feel appropriate, but I'd also be letting a family heirloom go. If I had the space, I'd just buy a grey Fergie and that'd be the problem solved. I was also half expecting to see something in the ferry queue since it was VW Breakout while I was over. John's post explains this:
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vulgalour
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May 20, 2024 15:48:57 GMT
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Because it's now the daily, there's some concessions to modernity I need to make with the Princess, the most pressing being headlights as the old ones made it feel borderline dangerous to drive at night. New LED units fixed that problem! This weekend I'm hoping the weather is reasonable so I can do a bit more welding repair work, and I'm currently saving up for the new windscreen and the first stage of proper bodywork and paint. After that it gets easier as there's far less big spends to do. Got very mixed feelings about dailying the Princess at the moment, it's perfectly capable of it and I do enjoy using it, I'm just very much feeling like I've reached that point in my life where I don't get as much joy as I did doing all of the DIY on it that it needs. As the car has got older its got harder to find professionals willing to work on it too. I foresee much more of this in my immediate future.
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marcmoss
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May 20, 2024 19:24:42 GMT
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stealthstylz
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May 20, 2024 21:24:05 GMT
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The Weekender gave my head a massive wobble as in the run up I decided I couldn't be bothered modifying the Carlton and was just gonna clean it up as standard because it's very rare/resale value etc etc. Luckily RRW came at the perfect time to remind me I'm not grown up and I don't want to sell it/need the money so I've been putting the finishing touches to the suspension I made for it and I'm just scouring marketplace/eBay for the exact wheels I want. MOT runs out this week so gonna get cracking on with it for RRG.
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adam73bgt
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May 20, 2024 22:07:58 GMT
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Did back to back car show weekends, first the weekender and then yesterday the Collecting Cars Coffee run forum.retro-rides.org/thread/227108/collecting-cars-coffee-run-19Have come away from both missing having a more exciting car on the road so need to pull my finger out. My Bike project is so close to running though, just got some throttle cable woes to sort
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As well as continuing with replacing shoddy work on my project car (rear trailing arm mount held on with a couple of plates around the thickness of Castrol GTX tin, for anyone that can remember when they weren't plastic) I'm trying to track down an intermittent charging problem on one of the working Vauxhalls. Swapped the alternator, no different - car will sit there happily idling at 13.6v, then it'll drop to around 12v for a bit with a faint battery light, then after no intervention, it'll come back up and act as if nothing happened. I just have this concern that one time it won't come back up. Adding a volt meter with numbers on it just gives me one more thing to worry about while driving. Got very mixed feelings about dailying the Princess at the moment, it's perfectly capable of it and I do enjoy using it, I'm just very much feeling like I've reached that point in my life where I don't get as much joy as I did doing all of the DIY on it that it needs. As the car has got older its got harder to find professionals willing to work on it too. I sympathise with that, and went through the same a long time ago. I was running one of my Vauxhalls as a daily driver, had a week off work, and it seemed as if I had to spend every day doing one job or another on it. I took the plunge and bought something quite clean and modern (for the time) and ran that, allowing me to put the other car on one side and work on it when I wanted to, not when I had to because I needed it for work the next day. Now I sometimes think I should have just got on with it and it would have somehow been more "worthy" to have soldiered on with the old car, but it probably wouldn't have. And if there's a job that will take four or five days, there's no way to cram that into a weekend.
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vulgalour
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Maybe a voltage regulator on its way out that's causing issue on the charging? Might explain why it's intermittent. That or a slightly loose earth from somewhere that's fine most of the time and an occasional vibration will knock it off.
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Frustrating few weeks for me, struggling to shake a virus and that's slowed progress with assorted workshop activities. Combined with the ongoing sagas of finding shoddy work that needs putting right plus delays in getting some infrastructure changes around the workshop it's definitely left me feeling rather flat.
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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zeberdee
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This week i’ve made the decision to break up a long term project .
It’s a car I really like & had big plans for , but it’s been off the road for at least 5 years now .
I’ve finally admitted to myself that I’ll never have the money or time to finish it the way i want .
A tough decision but just 24hrs later & i feel like a weight has been lifted .
I think the RRW played a big part in the decision & also maybe focusing the mind on what I really enjoy doing .
The money it generates will go towards tidying up my ‘on the road’ retro & also get me back into motorbike track days .
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Is that the Retro Rides Support Bus I see!? It is indeed.... Quite a saga getting it back on the road after developing a misfire at Bug Jam in 2019 that went from a light refresh into a complete strip down over the course of nearly a year.... ![:|](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/plain.png) Our mate Ady, along with Steve off of the blue Baja in the pictures and johnthesparky did the LORD's work getting it to a state that it could make it to the wedding... Oh, and mustn't forget DarrenW for polishing it to a mirror* shine..... https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7MNhS3IJkT still needs a bit of fettling to make it ready for the rest of the summer - we've got some celebrating to do as in July we've owned it 20 years ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) *as mirror as 60 year old paint gets....
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This week i’ve made the decision to break up a long term project . 👍 Well done - it's not easy, but there's something to be said for consolidating the fleet and putting that money to better use with a more obvious impact. I'm at the point where my capacity is stretched to absolute maximum but I keep putting off the decision about what needs to go because I'm too attached ![:'(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cry.png) Since it's fundamentally a solid car I've been just tarting up the daily A2 I've got some factory-fit reproduction floormats for a bargain £17 from teh bay, fitted a slightly slimmer steering wheel from a Mk1 Audi TT, and I've bought some LEDs to replace the really dim sidelights. I'm also tarting it up with a pair of sequential (I think they're called DYNAMIC!) side indicators - mine only being held in with moss and goodwill currently - and some LED rear numberplate lights as on a recent wash I noticed one was literally hanging out and the clips are broken. I also got around (only after the Weekender, obviously - why do it in a timely fashion before a big drive?) to doing an oil change on the Buick - the oil that came out was pretty grimy and she was about a quart lower than where she should have been, but I didn't notice anything else particularly untoward. Next up is the delightful Cars at The Castle show on 2nd June (https://www.hertford.gov.uk/events-listings/cars-at-the-castle-4/) in which about 80 predominantly classic cars (although I saw a delicious looking Ford Racing edition Puma once) assemble on the green at Hertford castle. It's a parochial little free event and well worth dropping by if you're nearby...although in exchange for navigating the very narrow walls around the grounds itself I actually get an excellent parking space right next to the town ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) I have to admit I missed it last year - I cried off when the weather looked grim...
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Last Edit: May 21, 2024 12:13:39 GMT by Paul
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zeberdee
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May 21, 2024 11:01:13 GMT
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This week i’ve made the decision to break up a long term project . 👍 Well done - it's not easy, but there's something to be said for consolidating the fleet and putting that money to better use with a more obvious impact. I'm at the point where my capacity is stretched to absolute maximum but I keep putting off the decision about what needs to go because I'm too attached :'.. Thanks . It definitely wasn’t an easy decision , but the sense of release within 24hrs says it was the right decision . Onwards onto more fun times , doing more fun things . 👍
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May 21, 2024 11:03:49 GMT
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Maybe a voltage regulator on its way out that's causing issue on the charging? Might explain why it's intermittent. That or a slightly loose earth from somewhere that's fine most of the time and an occasional vibration will knock it off. Voltage regulator is part of the alternator, though, as far as I know - if it's not, then I don't know where it is. There's one for the instruments, but that only covers (I think) temperature and fuel gauges. I've measured the voltage on the battery, and when the instruments say the voltage is dropping, the gauge directly on the battery agrees, so it's not a dash fault as far as I can see. I am intending to swap the warning lamp bulb and check everywhere for dodgy connections and wires. Maybe the battery is on the way out, so I might swap the one from the other car to see if it goes away. Trouble is, it's intermittent, just because it doesn't show up doesn't mean it's fixed.
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May 21, 2024 12:15:24 GMT
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Feeling under pressure at the moment as there is not enough time for everything. The year is almost half gone already and stuff is not getting done. I'm doing the Car SOS pop right now, but I really need to get some work done on mine as its only 3 weeks till it gets driven aruond the lake district for 800 miles and it's desperate for some servicing on the suspension and oil changes etc. The dailys are both overdue oil changes for about 12 months or more ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) and I have a shed to build and I really MUST start the kitchen extension for Mrs blackpop as she's only been waiting 10 years ![P-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/pirate.png) (got my workshop built though) And then Someone else is asking if I can paint their car as well.........
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vulgalour
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May 21, 2024 13:25:25 GMT
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Maybe a voltage regulator on its way out that's causing issue on the charging? Might explain why it's intermittent. That or a slightly loose earth from somewhere that's fine most of the time and an occasional vibration will knock it off. Voltage regulator is part of the alternator, though, as far as I know - if it's not, then I don't know where it is. A bad battery might be it too. The reason I thought it might be voltage regulator is the one in my alternator on the Princess went bad but randomly overcharged instead of undercharging, someone gave me a spare Capri alternator and we built one alternator out of the two and it's been fine for quite a few years now. Hope you find whatever the cause is, intermittent problems are the worst.
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May 21, 2024 17:19:53 GMT
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I've found another old Lucas alternator, which has the benefit of being an old one, not a newly-made one of uncertain manufacture. It's only a 15ACR so the current output will be less, but if it displays the same issue while running, it's probably pretty certain that it's not the alternator at fault. I've raised it with the people I bought the alternators from just in case they have a bad batch, and just had a reply I'll read in a minute.
Closed up the repaired front subframe mount this afternoon, instead of fixing the car I'll need for a show in less than two weeks.
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May 24, 2024 10:57:44 GMT
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Instead of fitting the filthy, old 15ACR alternator I have replaced the ignition warning lamp bulb, in case it helps. I've run the car for ten minutes sitting in the shed without a sign of the old trouble, but as it was intermittent before it's not much of a test. Alternator supplier has been sending helpful suggestions, which was good of them. I borrowed a battery tester which says "replace", as the CCA is down to 56% of the original spec. I did think this might point to the issue, but I tested the battery on the other car - which doesn't have this problem - and that one is older and showing 49%, so not conclusive, certainly not enough to drop £70+ on a new battery. Yet.
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