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Author Topic: What have done with your Series 2 in October  (Read 15931 times)

TimV

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What have done with your Series 2 in October
« Reply #45 on: October 17, 2019, 05:42:58 PM »
Pulled the seatbox out, pulling the gearbox out tomorrow.
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What have done with your Series 2 in October
« Reply #46 on: October 18, 2019, 01:36:30 PM »
Tried the rear seats for size
Just have to refurbish them now!
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What have done with your Series 2 in October
« Reply #47 on: October 18, 2019, 08:00:50 PM »
Sprayed the bonnet and Tony (Welding) Wood repaired front panel in primer.

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What have done with your Series 2 in October
« Reply #48 on: October 19, 2019, 07:14:46 PM »
Went to the Classic bike show / Jumble at Stafford, bought a smiths temperature gauge for Bob, now making it work should be interesting
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What have done with your Series 2 in October
« Reply #49 on: October 20, 2019, 07:40:58 AM »
I fashioned a new vacuum advance pipe.
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What have done with your Series 2 in October
« Reply #50 on: October 20, 2019, 08:10:37 AM »
Saturday really but spent the morning with land rover and trailer taking rubbish from sons house to the tip as he is moving.

His local tip wouldnt let me in as my land rover doesnt have windows behind the cab (its a 61 year old car with a canvas roof) and so is a commercial vehicle and I didnt have a permit.  It meant an 18 mile round trip to my local tip where there is no such restriction.

No wonder fly tipping goes on

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« Reply #51 on: October 20, 2019, 08:11:55 AM »
Quote from: Romahomepete on October 20, 2019, 08:10:37 AM
Saturday really but spent the morning with land rover and trailer taking rubbish from sons house to the tip as he is moving.

His local tip wouldnt let me in as my land rover doesnt have windows behind the cab (its a 61 year old car with a canvas roof) and so is a commercial vehicle and I didnt have a permit.  It meant an 18 mile round trip to my local tip where there is no such restriction.

No wonder fly tipping goes on
I got a permit for Bob as we have had issues in the past.
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« Reply #52 on: October 20, 2019, 01:01:49 PM »
Swore at the *&%^$ plastic bodied flasher lamp units which are suffering from water ingress related problems again.

Are there any decent quality waterproof auxiliary light units suitable for a late 2A available?
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« Reply #53 on: October 20, 2019, 09:04:38 PM »
Shocked at the cost of a locking mech for a cat flap, I spent the day making my own; bit of forging, fabricating and engineering. Mostly done, just some fettling to make it fit :mr fixit
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What have done with your Series 2 in October
« Reply #54 on: October 20, 2019, 09:24:29 PM »
Stripped the rear crossmember back to bare metal, welded on new brackets then red oxide primed and painted it. Good as new(ish)
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What have done with your Series 2 in October
« Reply #55 on: October 20, 2019, 09:54:30 PM »
Drove it this weekend, First time for a while since welding was done and  all the jobs were sorted that dismantling something this old throws at you. Anyway all good - just hopefully some minor works to go.
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« Reply #56 on: October 21, 2019, 04:48:48 PM »
Fixed a *&%^$ plastic bodied flasher lamp unit which was suffering from water ingress related problems again. To be fair, it wasn't actually the lamp unit itself this time but the *&%^$ twisted joint tape bomb lurking behind it courtesy of some previous owner's idea of wiring.  >:(

Most of the wiring across the front looks of a similar standard but for now it'll just have to make do with as and when attention.....
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What have done with your Series 2 in October
« Reply #57 on: October 21, 2019, 05:47:23 PM »
Fitted a new gauge panel. Now I have the oil pressure, vacuum and various switch on one panel instead of small ones dotted around. But after fitting the vacuum gauge didn't read the usual value. This may have been because I tried fitting an LED lamp that was slightly longer than the incandescent one and it fouled the mechanism. So having checked the pipes and the real vacuum with a spare gauge I took the faulty gauge apart. Nothing untoward was visible so I took the needle off and with the gauge open to air (no vacuum) I refitted the needle to show '0'. It now works again.
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What have done with your Series 2 in October
« Reply #58 on: October 25, 2019, 02:18:00 AM »
tried to line up truck back with bulkhead  :stars
will try again by fitting the roof ..........its a lot different from the standard tub which becomes a datum for bulkhead

 
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What have done with your Series 2 in October
« Reply #59 on: October 25, 2019, 03:05:02 AM »
A tad pedantic, but yes. Should really put one's specs on when tiiipinng.

Hi,

OT ... but take it as a warning.

The legend goes, that an American living on America, employed a French architect, and a local builder. The resulting house was HUGE. The bullder had assumed that all the dimensions were in inches.

The architect had not specified that they were in centimetres.

602

PS. All text in this mail is not 18pt unless specified otherwise. Hmmm ... I wonder if that will work?
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