The LMC - Breakdown Thread
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Just back from the Le Mans Classic, a trip not without incident 
Our gang set out on Friday morning, by 6.15am the Porsche 912/6 met us at Cobham Services running sickly on 5 cylinders, solved it on the other side in the car park of a Calais Citroen dealer.
A few hours later my TVR Chimaera had a relay go down just outside Rouen which took me an hour to diagnose and another hour to bypass. One of those high stress moments where a clear head and my multimeter saved the trip.
Then the texts start coming in from the Porsche 912 team again, "brakes locking on - help".
Arrived at Le Mans (very late) to find the Porsche had made it (just) but the Sunbeam Alpine had driven into a deep pothole entering the camp site resulting in its fan smashing into the rad & losing all its coolant (soft engine mounts).
Repaired it on Saturday morning with a combination of the epoxy putty & K-Seal I carry in my bag of emergency breakdown spares.
Departed Le Mans Sunday afternoon, ran the Porsche to a local supermarket where I found there was zero free play between the brake pedal & master cylinder, trimmed the little ribber pedal stop to allow the piston to reveal the return port in the master cylinder and away we went to Honfleur.
Four breakdowns on three of our five cars (& one motorcycle), the Sunbeam did hit 105 degrees as it arrived in the London stop/start traffic but I'm pleased to confirm we all made it safely home.
In the words of the great Brian Hanrahan....
"I counted them all out - and I counted them all back"
What an epic trip
Post your breakdown stories here......
Our gang set out on Friday morning, by 6.15am the Porsche 912/6 met us at Cobham Services running sickly on 5 cylinders, solved it on the other side in the car park of a Calais Citroen dealer.
A few hours later my TVR Chimaera had a relay go down just outside Rouen which took me an hour to diagnose and another hour to bypass. One of those high stress moments where a clear head and my multimeter saved the trip.
Then the texts start coming in from the Porsche 912 team again, "brakes locking on - help".
Arrived at Le Mans (very late) to find the Porsche had made it (just) but the Sunbeam Alpine had driven into a deep pothole entering the camp site resulting in its fan smashing into the rad & losing all its coolant (soft engine mounts).
Repaired it on Saturday morning with a combination of the epoxy putty & K-Seal I carry in my bag of emergency breakdown spares.
Departed Le Mans Sunday afternoon, ran the Porsche to a local supermarket where I found there was zero free play between the brake pedal & master cylinder, trimmed the little ribber pedal stop to allow the piston to reveal the return port in the master cylinder and away we went to Honfleur.
Four breakdowns on three of our five cars (& one motorcycle), the Sunbeam did hit 105 degrees as it arrived in the London stop/start traffic but I'm pleased to confirm we all made it safely home.
In the words of the great Brian Hanrahan....
"I counted them all out - and I counted them all back"
What an epic trip
Post your breakdown stories here......
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