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Jan 22, 2024 20:35:12 GMT
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After I build the rotisserie….. just casually tossed in there….🙂
Nice work!
Bit of dry walking and you’ll be itching to get back to it.😛
I hear you on the aches and pains though !
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Jan 16, 2024 21:20:28 GMT
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I'm actually sad that the chances of me ever seeing this in person are so slim. Incredible work. Hmm. Just another good reason to go to NZ 🙂 What a great update. Feels like it’s getting close now. Exciting! I was was especially tickled by your Nissan battery assistant. Good idea. Must confess I’ve always stuck with the MS defaults for injector dead times. Usually pressure test my fuel rails with compressed air and water bath. Our actual bath tub the first one I did. It leaked. A lot. Anyway, crack on. Looking forward to seeing it in and running.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Jan 16, 2024 19:56:15 GMT
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Been seeing this in the Yeovil area for years but this is the first time I’ve been on foot with a camera… Nice. I also regularly see a white Capri Mk3 on the A37 just south of Yeovil.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Jan 13, 2024 21:02:31 GMT
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^^^ what he said.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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🙂 Ah……🤫yeah…. Fair cop. Though as it turns out (and I wasn’t going to tell you this), by a strange quirk of fate, the actual example in the pictures has an LS in the front…. Dirty cheat I know 🤷♂️
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Bit left-field . Only recently discovered they existed and surprised to find I rather like it
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Looks like an ordinary IEC 90 frame motor with B5 flange. Can’t see if it has the usual IEC keyed shaft but seems probable.
When checking out the single phase option note that the need the capacitor start, capacitor run variety which have the better starting torque rating. These are not the cheaper ones. Shouldn’t be very much bigger, though they tend to have very high terminal boxes to accommodate the capacitors.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Um, probably.
You’ll need to arrange the links in the motor terminal box for 220v (delta) there’s likely a sticker in the lid showing it.
As for the inverter, the challenge will be getting enough current for the starting torque. Going up a size with te largest possible overload capacity is the way to go (2.2 or even 3kW for the 1.5 kW motor at least 150% overload). There’ll likely be some witchcraft involved in the inverter set up too but I reckon it should be possible to make it work.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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It’s close! Sitting here, looking at your pic, I suspect it will actually fit if you assemble it in the right order/with right technique. Though maybe you’ve already had a good go at proving me wrong!
Have you actually measured the hole spacing on the 1200 plate vs. the 1800?
Not sure if it helps but you also have 1500 (Wolseley 1500/ Riley 1.5 / MG Magnette) which might provide an alternative plate.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Dec 24, 2023 20:53:07 GMT
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IIIRC one of the Dinitrol products has a rust neutralisation component mixed in with the wax, so in theory you could just get it clean and dry and then just blast that (or equivalent) straight in there.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Turbo time 😛
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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That looks a lot better than the steaming POS Mountfield that I inherited with the house. It’s not old but it very very poorly engineered and build quality is worse.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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^^^ This. Or just leave the manufacturer plate in place unless the number has obviously been intentionally damaged - which raises different questions.
Plenty of trailers running around with no plates as the requirement was brought in relatively recently and not retrospectively applied. The only records are kept (maybe) by the manufacturers and the plates supplied are often low quality and soon become unreadable, as with this one. UK has some of the slackest trailer laws in the civilised (?) world.
Nobody will care.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Same here. iPhone iOS 17. It does actually post though.
Get the same message when trying to follow up notifications.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Those Smiths heater valves are all too capable of stopping almost all flow in all positions while outwardly appearing to work. Check carefully. Copies are available new. The pretend rubber used in the diaphragms is not long-lived.
Also, if both inlet and outlet stubs go into the same tank, there must be (have been) an internal baffle to direct flow through the matrix. If this goes missing, you’ll get very little heat.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Just as well you are multi-skilled 🙂👍🏻
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Nov 30, 2023 21:44:50 GMT
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That looks like a real PITA job to me. Presumably both sides need doing too?
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Nov 26, 2023 19:21:17 GMT
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Like the easy-start suggestion. Have you ever had so much as a cough from it?
We did own a P-plate one of these for several years which was mostly fairly well behaved, but did go through a period of random refusal to restart when hot. That was eventually tracked down to a dry joint on the fuel pump relay/engine management relay (though not before its eviction notice had been signed), so unlikely to be the problem in your case. I don’t recall any ECU pond/wetness issues while hunting down the problem.
Only other thought is that I’ve found dome NGK spark plugs to be rendered useless by a single fuel flooding event. New/lightly-used being worst affected.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Nov 25, 2023 12:29:01 GMT
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You can buy bead sealant goop as well. It works well.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Nov 22, 2023 20:24:27 GMT
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Andy,
We could really do with a pic of the existing motor nameplate. This will give us the power rating, number of poles, supply voltage options etc. We can also work out its running and starting torque ratings.
If it’s sat there unwired then a pic inside the terminal box would help too.
We could also do with knowing whether the hoist is hydraulic. jack-screws or whatever.
The real point about star and delta in this context is that 3 phase motors can be wound/wired either for 3 x 400v, or 3 x 240v. Many of the better ones can actually be swapped from one to the other by repositioning links in the terminal box.
The important thing from your point of view is that it must be 240v capable. An inverter can make more phases, but it can’t make more voltage.
Single phase motors….. in my world of pumps at least are always bad news, usually used by farmers in dank places connected to dodgy rural mains by several hundred metres of damp string (or caravan extension cables) so all kinds of start problems due to bolt drop. Anyhow, the ones with decent start torque are the capacitor-start, capacitor-run ones. These are not the cheap ones.
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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