K Series Spares

[apexcone]

This is a list of the spares we carry in our 1.4 SS, as I have said before distances here are huge and no one has ever heard of a K Series. One of the roads that we frequently travel on is 115 miles between towns and fuel stops and you're lucky if you see 12 other cars, so having a comprehensive spares package is essential for us.

Temp sender
Bottom hose
Top hose
Injector
Cam belt
Fan belt
Clutch cable
Throttle cable
Exhaust bobbin
Plugs
Wheel bearing R
Wheel bearing F
Map sensor
Crank Sensor
Coil pack
Water sensor
Cam sensor
Water sensor
Wheel stud
Wheel Nut
Duck Tape
Electrical connectors
Selection of nuts, bolts & screws
Volt meter
Oil
Coolant
Brake fluid

Edited by apexcone on Wednesday 22 April 17:00

[Gingerbread Man]

bks to that. I used to carry tyre foam and a breakdown car. Recently I'm not sure if I have either! Before that i did have a bag with a few odds and sods in; throttle and clutch cable (easyily swapped), zip ties, few fuses, odd length of wire left over from a mod. Nothing that bulky.

Why a bottom and top hose? Some self amalgamating tape would be easier and cover more options. The likely hood of the hose becoming damaged is rare, but completely served requiring a new one?

Edited by Gingerbread Man on Thursday 23 April 08:32

[Moggie25]

Would it not be more convenient to just tow a second Caterham?

[Snake the Sniper]

How the hell do you intend to change a cam belt by the road?!

[spanky3]

Just for the record I've done a sierra one on a petrol station forecourt, and a K series caterham belt is about as easy as it gets - about half an hour if you don't do the waterpump and I guess the OP is thinking more about spares a garage might be able fit if they had them like the wheel bearings. It's still a pretty extreme thing to carry and would probably only be useful if you spotted damage before it gave up completely though.

Edited by spanky3 on Thursday 23 April 14:23

[apexcone]

spanky3 said:

Just for the record I've done a sierra one on a petrol station forecourt, and a K series caterham belt is about as easy as it gets - about half an hour if you don't do the waterpump and I guess the OP is thinking more about spares a garage might be able fit if they had them like the wheel bearings. It's still a pretty extreme thing to carry and would probably only be useful if you spotted damage before it gave up completely though.

Edited by spanky3 on Thursday 23 April 14:23

On the Grizzle Bear Blat that I organized 2 years ago we had 2 cars suffer from wheel bearing issues, that's why I carry them.

[Kenneth Danmark]

apexcone said:

...distances here are huge and no one has ever heard of a K Series....

Do you live in the Gobi Desert?

Most impressive though! Have you ever needed any of the parts, and how do you fit it all in the car?

Makes me start thinking whether I should take more with me; I only have a throttle and a clutch cable in the boot. Especially since my car ('96 K-1.6) must be of similar vintage. Having said that though, all breakdowns I've had have (touch wood) been fairly local (Munich, Germany), and the car performed flawlessly through 2,200 km Mille Miglia watching through Italy 3 years ago (my friend's Triumph TR3 broke down 8 times and we ultimately left it in Austria...)

[Toaster]

Bit OTT and attention seeking posting.... so OK Canada is a big country and can get remote but come on...

The K series is very reliable so as long as its serviced you don't need most of the bits

Temp sender
Not required if it stops on a trip then replace when you get back

Bottom hose
Top hose
Replace with a silicon hose set or just get some hose tape

Injector
You can run on 3 cylinders

Cam belt
if this goes basically your fked
Fan belt
Clutch cable
Agreed but change every 6,000 and you should be OK
Throttle cable
Same as the clutch cable

Exhaust bobbin
What ! these do fail but not bad enough to make you 'break down' also inspect every 3-6000 miles

Plugs
never heard of these failing

Wheel bearing R
Wheel bearing F
These tend to get noisy before failure but lasts thousands and thousands of miles

Map sensor
may as well pack a spare CPU

Crank Sensor
Coil pack
Water sensor
Cam sensor
Water sensor
Why ! these rarley fail


Wheel stud
Wheel Nut
FFS! paranioa or what

Duck Tape
Sensible

Electrical connectors
Selection of nuts, bolts & screws
should have made sure the ones fitted are set to the right torque plus use washers!
Volt meter

Oil
possibly

Coolant
Brake fluid

all alarmist nonsense

why don't you carry a spare de-dion tube these collapse from time to time

[apexcone]

Toaster said:

Bit OTT and attention seeking posting.... so OK Canada is a big country and can get remote but come on...

The K series is very reliable so as long as its serviced you don't need most of the bits

Temp sender
Not required if it stops on a trip then replace when you get back

Bottom hose
Top hose
Replace with a silicon hose set or just get some hose tape

Injector
You can run on 3 cylinders

Cam belt
if this goes basically your fked
Fan belt
Clutch cable
Agreed but change every 6,000 and you should be OK
Throttle cable
Same as the clutch cable

Exhaust bobbin
What ! these do fail but not bad enough to make you 'break down' also inspect every 3-6000 miles

Plugs
never heard of these failing

Wheel bearing R
Wheel bearing F
These tend to get noisy before failure but lasts thousands and thousands of miles

Map sensor
may as well pack a spare CPU

Crank Sensor
Coil pack
Water sensor
Cam sensor
Water sensor
Why ! these rarley fail


Wheel stud
Wheel Nut
FFS! paranioa or what

Duck Tape
Sensible

Electrical connectors
Selection of nuts, bolts & screws
should have made sure the ones fitted are set to the right torque plus use washers!
Volt meter

Oil
possibly

Coolant
Brake fluid

all alarmist nonsense

why don't you carry a spare de-dion tube these collapse from time to time

WOW

[apexcone]

Kenneth Danmark said:

Do you live in the Gobi Desert?

Some times I think we do. In the past 12 years of owning K Series Caterhams either myself or one of my customers has had every electrical unit on the car fail. On the GBB 2 years ago 12 cars consumed the following.

1. Throttle cable
1. Clutch Cable
1. Rear wheel bearing
2. Wheel studs
1. Injector
2. Cam sensors
1. Radiator
1. rear brake calliper
3. Roles of Duck Tape

So being so far away from a local source of K Series parts we think it prudent to carry the most common items.

Edited by apexcone on Thursday 23 April 23:32

[Toaster]

apexcone said:

WOW

WOW indeed so from the stated list it boils down to fewer items even then one wonders what sort of monkey wrench you may be using to break wheel studs on a well maintained car there is possibly only two items on that list that are common failures.

I take it you take the same list of components for all the cars you drive


1. Throttle cable
1. Clutch Cable
The only items that commonly fail


1. Rear wheel bearing
2. Wheel studs
1. Injector
2. Cam sensors
1. Radiator
1. rear brake calliper
3. Roles of Duck Tape

[texr2000]

I just have a AA card and hope for the best

Even at a track day the most i take is a clutch and throttle cable