What have you done to your car today......

[Byker28i]

Oh nothing much. Just filmed a friends Tuscan from it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygnSbHyMXmY&t=...

[gruffalo]

Left it in Belgium after the clutch master cylinder failed on Sunday.

[Jhonno]

gruffalo said:

Left it in Belgium after the clutch master cylinder failed on Sunday.

Bugger!

[Byker28i]

Jhonno said:

gruffalo said:

Left it in Belgium after the clutch master cylinder failed on Sunday.

Bugger!

Oh st! Was that why you weren't out on track? No recovery options?

[gruffalo]

Byker28i said:

Jhonno said:

gruffalo said:

Left it in Belgium after the clutch master cylinder failed on Sunday.

Bugger!

Oh st! Was that why you weren't out on track? No recovery options?

ADAC comprehensive cover but the Belgian chap they sent took one look at the car and said "non" to even looking at it and stuck it on his Lorry to be returned to the UK.

We were mid trip as well so I had to visit the Somme cemeteries in the passenger seat of my mates Audi A8 which I have to say in V8T guise is an impressive piece of kit, never been on a long run in it before.

[Byker28i]

We had a chimeara break in Ghent last year, the cobbles broke the carbon brush in the centre of the distributor cap.
Recovery said they couldn't get to us as the music festival was on, which was rubbish, you could drive in until 2pm. Wouldn't even help us find a motor factors - any cap would have done to be canibalised.

The owner ended up buying one from TVR parts, getting it shipped over and fitting it on the Tuesday when it arrived. As the recovery was awful, he got them to pay out for the additional hotel rooms, changed crossing, inconvenience etc.

[Mr Cerbera]

TwinKam said:

Existing liners (and pistons), this is 'just' a refresh with new rings in honed bores.
Block was aqua-blasted and Cerakoted by
http://www.hi-speccoatings.co.uk

Thanks for the Linky

[TwinKam]

Mr Cerbera said:

TwinKam said:

Existing liners (and pistons), this is 'just' a refresh with new rings in honed bores.
Block was aqua-blasted and Cerakoted by
http://www.hi-speccoatings.co.uk

Thanks for the Linky

You're welcome, Wesley and Andy are unassuming craftsmen in a world of loud mouthed bodgers,
I'm a fussy bd but I'm very impressed with their work. I'll post pics when it's all assembled, before it gets fitted and mostly hidden from view.

[gruffalo]

Byker28i said:

We had a chimeara break in Ghent last year, the cobbles broke the carbon brush in the centre of the distributor cap.
Recovery said they couldn't get to us as the music festival was on, which was rubbish, you could drive in until 2pm. Wouldn't even help us find a motor factors - any cap would have done to be canibalised.

The owner ended up buying one from TVR parts, getting it shipped over and fitting it on the Tuesday when it arrived. As the recovery was awful, he got them to pay out for the additional hotel rooms, changed crossing, inconvenience etc.

So the "can't be arsed" attitude is normal and not just reserved to this time. The woman from the ADAC was very apologetic and implied they have real problems when they have a call out in Belgium.

Oh well the car will be home in a couple of weeks and the very widely available seals will be replaced for the huge cost of £1.04 for the set.

[FarmyardPants]

Picked it up from APM with new clutch pack, master, RP slave, service and MOT.

Fixed my rattly driver's window, fixed the window microswitch and resoldered the wire to the tweeter.

Just a buzz/rattle from passenger side vent area to track down and she'll be right as rain

[Byker28i]

gruffalo said:

Byker28i said:

We had a chimeara break in Ghent last year, the cobbles broke the carbon brush in the centre of the distributor cap.
Recovery said they couldn't get to us as the music festival was on, which was rubbish, you could drive in until 2pm. Wouldn't even help us find a motor factors - any cap would have done to be canibalised.

The owner ended up buying one from TVR parts, getting it shipped over and fitting it on the Tuesday when it arrived. As the recovery was awful, he got them to pay out for the additional hotel rooms, changed crossing, inconvenience etc.

So the "can't be arsed" attitude is normal and not just reserved to this time. The woman from the ADAC was very apologetic and implied they have real problems when they have a call out in Belgium.

Oh well the car will be home in a couple of weeks and the very widely available seals will be replaced for the huge cost of £1.04 for the set.

Hopefully ADAC will pay all expenses, otherwise whats the point in having it. That's poor
I haven't had to use my AA breakdown as yet, but at £70 it's good insurance, considering when I checked it was £300 to be recovered to Calais and then they might not let you on the train.

[The_Edge]

Toned down my alloys... went from brilliant silver/original, to something a teeny bit more subtle. Not as dark as graphite or gun-metal but wanted them a tad more subtle.

Loving the refurb either way

[Wolvesboy]

Farmyard Pants: what did you do to stop the rattle window? Mine are pretty poor.

[Juddder]

Took the Cerbera to Silverstone and back - a nice stretch considering the brakes still need bleeding, and stayed around 90 / 95o the whole Motorway and back road journey

Only hit 105 / 110o on the queues back into London and then the water in the brake fluid boiled and it all went spongy but at least I was expecting it and a few pumps of the pedal and it was fine

I have a MegaRaizin Voltage Stabalizer now rigged up on the battery which I will do a post about - seems to work well with the electrics and starting (*no quantifiable difference but seems to help)

[purpleliability]

4.7 said:

There you go.. Same both sides.

I've been looking for some additional bracing for ages, did you make them? If you bought them where did you get it from if you don't mind me asking?

[NilsP]

gruffalo said:

So the "can't be arsed" attitude is normal and not just reserved to this time. The woman from the ADAC was very apologetic and implied they have real problems when they have a call out in Belgium.

Oh well the car will be home in a couple of weeks and the very widely available seals will be replaced for the huge cost of £1.04 for the set.

¨
You should've contacted me!
If anyone ever comes ever to Belgium, please feel free to ask for my number.
I know quite a few places that work on tvr's/have parts. I still have a few parts myself and I'm always happy to help.

[TwinKam]

In for a penny, in for a pound...
The engine bay 'refresh' continues with me now removing the rack in order to paint the chassis tubes around it...
I never intended to go this far, but while the engine is out it just makes sense.
The rack is a bit of a chinese puzzle to extract but there is no need to remove the track rods nor the valve body as others have, just the copper pipes. Important to clarify, as I have read on here to move it to the right... (we don't refer to right or left as it all depends on your viewpoint...) you move it fully to the NS until you can lift the OS trackrod end up through that large centre triangle, and out it comes.


...the entire front half of the chassis from gearbox mounts forward is now bare metal!

[ukkid35]

TwinKam said:

The rack is a bit of a chinese puzzle to extract but there is no need to remove the track rods nor the valve body as others have, just the copper pipes.

If you replace the copper pipes with braided hoses (like the later racks), extraction and re-installation becomes much easier indeed.

[GT6k]

Had a nice ride on a recovery truck courtesy of RH Insurance's very efficient recovery service after the clutch slave decided the fluid would be better on the outside.

[FarmyardPants]

Wolvesboy said:

Farmyard Pants: what did you do to stop the rattle window? Mine are pretty poor.

The glass was rattling against the door (the GRP itself) at the front. There were two main problems - firstly the glass wasn't seated in the leading runner properly, allowing it to flap about, and secondly the glass was too close to the GRP. The brush that should in theory push the glass away from the GRP does bugger all.

It seems the runners are too widely spaced for the glass. Either the glass is seated in the front runner and not the back, or vice versa. But since the runners are mounted at an angle like this: / / , if you lift the leading edge of the glass slightly and/or lower the trailing edge, you can get it to sit in both grooves. I lowered the rear of the glass a couple of mm by cutting the rubber that the glass sits in, so that the glass sits directly on the collets and not on the rubber. I lifted the front of the glass a bit by loosening the allen bolts, shifting the glass and re-tightening.

Also, my runners have 3 screw holes but only 2 are used. I found that by using a different pair of holes I could move the runners slightly closer together.

Finally, to move the glass away from the GRP at the front, I put a couple of washers between the runner and the door.

Now the window is solid and the door shuts with a nice 'thunk'. Previously it sounded like a cross channel ferry duty free shop.

As an added bonus, probably due to the washers pushing the glass against the door seal a bit more, putting the window up at speed now seals properly, no more wind noise.

Edited by FarmyardPants on Sunday 4th June 21:21

Edited by FarmyardPants on Sunday 4th June 21:21