1978 Citroën GS Club

I f*ckin love this car, my parents both had GS's when I was young, my mum had a bright yellow saloon & my dad had a pale blue estate, & years later they bought a cream GSA hatchback (super quiet, in mint condition). My dad always said they handled like they were on rails, super roadholding, & yes, the seats don't like sunlight. I always wanted to get one & see if I could fit an alfa romeo flat 4 water cooled engine in it? Lovely car though, & I'm all for keeping these things original, well done.

Would like to know if it's possible to translpant alfa lump, as I remember some citroens had belt driven hydraulic pump which would make it easier. I showed my dad these pages, for a moment he thought it was from the "cars for sale" section & got all excited. He's also well into his motorbikes, so got suitably excited when he saw the citroen works bike with GSA engine. Good luck with the hydraulics work, these older systems seemed to be better put together than the later ones, but everything's a bit harder to get to.

Besides taking the hydraulics apart I also did some work on the carburator. This is what it looked like:

Really dirty float chamber, low mileage isn't good for everything...


And this is what it looks like now

For Citroen hydraulics hoses "Ligarex" pliers are recommended. I ordered them from a Citroen webshop in the Netherlands. This is what they look like:


And this is what you can do with them:




Well, I put everything back together and the first problem I had was that my engine was running badly. The CO reading was 7% and it wasn't at all affected by turning the mixture screw on the carburetor A quick Google for Weber carburetor picutures revealed that the one spring I had left over should have been behind the accelerator pump membrane

So I put it back and tuned it to the right idle speed and 2,5% CO. Car runs much better than it ever did, and it never ran bad to start with. Result!

Unfortunately, the next morning there was hydraulics fluid under the car. Well, it seemed I have another problem... what happend is that when I took everything apart I cut a 5cm long hose that connects a plastic piece of tube to a metal piece of tube thinking that it was just a hose. Unfortunately its inner diameter is about 4mm on one end, and about 2mm on the other end I hoped to fix it by using a longer piece of normal 4mm hose and multiple clamps but it turned out that really was wishful thinking. Well, I'll have to find a proper solution to it.

In the mean time I've fitted my towing hook :-)

That has to be the coolest boot i have ever seen.

If you fancy a small detour via northern Germany on your way to the Netherlands you´re more than welcome to stay at "Oldbus garages" ;D

Love those cars. Yours looks awesome.
In 1996, in NZ, I did an appraisal on a very very cool and bright orange GS Estate with full orange vinyl interior, the guy wanted too much for it unfortunately the deal fell apart.

That is a really cool car, and the colour is just so right

I registered this back in traffic use now that the snow has melted (at least of the roads) and hopefully taken all the salt with it. I had some problems as after running the engine warm I found that I couldn't select any gear as the clutch wouldn't disengage. This is probably due to my storage being to humid. Unfortunately other cars with snow on their roofs driving in and out of the parking garage all the time and then melting down means that it would have had an easier time standing outside in the freezing (dry!) cold.

It took me a while to figure out the right way to force the clutch to come loose, but I finally realized that the only way is to select first gear with the engine switched off, and then try to start the engine with the clutch pedal depressed. After a small jump forwards the clutch popped loose and the car now drives just like it always did...