Work Restarts on 67 GT Junior
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Hi all,
I have posted a few things asking for a bit of advice on here for my GT Junior (Reupholstering and Wheel related)
Well, after a difference of opinions with the OH at the weekend I locked myself in the garage to work out why women are so unreasonable, and why I shouldn't I be allowed to buy a TVR.
Anyway, whilst pottering around I decided to try and see where the fuel leak was coming from - I suspected a hose had worked loose or a fuel pump seal.
Tried to track it down with no joy, so took the carbs off. Looking OK, not great and need a clean up. What the hell, I ordered two sets of Weber 40's servicing seals and gaskets and will give them an overhaul.
Put them to one side and carry on looking for the fuel leak.
Thing is, it took so long to get the carbs off (Italian mechanics must have really tiny hands to get at the two inner lower locating studs on the bank of carbs) I cannot see where the fuel was coming out of.......
So, as nothing seems to have been disturbed from the day the car left the factory some 42 years ago, and I cannot face putting the carbs back on to trace the leak, I think the time is probably time to renew/refurbish the lot. Fuel line, pump, filter and flexi-pipes.
Well, hell if i'm doing that perhaps that set of 45's would be worth consideration......
Along with removing the frankly silly air filter box and replacing the rubber carb mounts with some lovely billet aluminium jobs and trumpets.
And then I looked at the radiator/water hoses - so a new set of those is on order.
Now the point of this post.
Does this EVER stop? I am losing count of the number of last jobs I keep coming up with.
I'll try and get some pics as I go along if anyone is interested.
I have posted a few things asking for a bit of advice on here for my GT Junior (Reupholstering and Wheel related)
Well, after a difference of opinions with the OH at the weekend I locked myself in the garage to work out why women are so unreasonable, and why I shouldn't I be allowed to buy a TVR.
Anyway, whilst pottering around I decided to try and see where the fuel leak was coming from - I suspected a hose had worked loose or a fuel pump seal.
Tried to track it down with no joy, so took the carbs off. Looking OK, not great and need a clean up. What the hell, I ordered two sets of Weber 40's servicing seals and gaskets and will give them an overhaul.
Put them to one side and carry on looking for the fuel leak.
Thing is, it took so long to get the carbs off (Italian mechanics must have really tiny hands to get at the two inner lower locating studs on the bank of carbs) I cannot see where the fuel was coming out of.......
So, as nothing seems to have been disturbed from the day the car left the factory some 42 years ago, and I cannot face putting the carbs back on to trace the leak, I think the time is probably time to renew/refurbish the lot. Fuel line, pump, filter and flexi-pipes.
Well, hell if i'm doing that perhaps that set of 45's would be worth consideration......
Along with removing the frankly silly air filter box and replacing the rubber carb mounts with some lovely billet aluminium jobs and trumpets.
And then I looked at the radiator/water hoses - so a new set of those is on order.
Now the point of this post.
Does this EVER stop? I am losing count of the number of last jobs I keep coming up with.
I'll try and get some pics as I go along if anyone is interested.
davemac250 said:
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Does this EVER stop? I am losing count of the number of last jobs I keep coming up with.
But you do have to be careful, sometime you can find when you add up a series of little jobs that it just makes senses to do while you are in there anyway that you've run up a rather larger bill than you were ever intending.
On the subject of women and TVRs
1) Mrs Hex (B8) was always coming up with long lists of reasons why I couldn't have TVR. But since saying "YOU CAN'T HAVE a TVR" wasn't likely to be a good negotiating stance, she couched it in terms of reasons why I couldn't have a two seater open topped sports car. Then one day we were standing in the local Jaguar dealers, we had gone there to look at a X300. I was dutifully looking at the X300 when I glanced round to see the misses drooling over and XJS convertible, with a look on her face like a 16 year old school boy who'd just seen Pamela Anderson walking down the street naked.
The conversation in the pub that night was quite amusing
(me) You said I ...
(her) but...
(me) And you said I couldn't ...
(her) but...
2) The other technique I tried, the local TVR dealer used to have a sales lady as well as the usual salesmen. The misses asked her whether she thought TVRs were a good car for a woman to drive. Her response was something along the lines of "Oh YES, you get one with the BIGGEST engine you can - then you go out hunting sales boys, see if you can make their dicks fall off"
Christ, I know what you mean.
So far this little fuel leak that should a be a seal or a length of fuel line is now standing at over £200 in parts.
And that is before I start weighing up bigger carbs, uprated fuel pump, fitting an oil cooler as it sits under the carbs nicely etc.
As for the TVR, she wants a sports car. She has driven the TVR and loved it, she is just being bloody unreasonable because I wrecked the daily driver the other day.
I have a feeling she may think I did it on purpose, which I didn't. I just didn't see the width restriction as someone else had wiped out the reflective post, unfortunately the 8" kerb was still in place.........
So far this little fuel leak that should a be a seal or a length of fuel line is now standing at over £200 in parts.
And that is before I start weighing up bigger carbs, uprated fuel pump, fitting an oil cooler as it sits under the carbs nicely etc.
As for the TVR, she wants a sports car. She has driven the TVR and loved it, she is just being bloody unreasonable because I wrecked the daily driver the other day.
I have a feeling she may think I did it on purpose, which I didn't. I just didn't see the width restriction as someone else had wiped out the reflective post, unfortunately the 8" kerb was still in place.........
Nope, it always seems the same start a small job and it escalates into a bigger and bigger job.... always happens.....
Bit like swapping to 45's... on a 1300 you will then need bigger valves, hotter cams, better pistons, better exhaust, better crankshaft.... just stick with the forties unless you go the whole hog you would be wasting your money.
If you want more power just drop a 2000 lump in instead.
Bit like swapping to 45's... on a 1300 you will then need bigger valves, hotter cams, better pistons, better exhaust, better crankshaft.... just stick with the forties unless you go the whole hog you would be wasting your money.
If you want more power just drop a 2000 lump in instead.
OK I have sorted out a few pics.
I picked up the Alfa getting on for 8 years ago. Previous owner was a mechanical wiz and had intended to restore her completely, however he was offered a job preparing Astons for a race series.
The car came to me with the engine converted for unleaded with the parts being used IMO way over specced. The engine bay had been painted whilst he had taken the engine out to work on it. I have no idea why he did that he just did!
This was the state of the car when I picked her up, although I had slapped on some red oxide as he had rubbed down the paintwork but wasn't going to get time to address it, I knew I wouldn't be doing that until I had spent some time getting the brakes up to scratch, connecting the choke assembly and making the heater/fan work.
She was MOT'd (just) in this condition and I took he home and started to dig a bit deeper.
Over the next three years the brake pipes were renewed, heater stripped and refurbished and the car given a bare metal respray
She ended up looking like this. Sorry for the pic explanation to follow.
Afraid they are about the only pics I have from the respray etc. There was a full folder taken step by step of the process that was lost when my Laptop died. The car was 'finished' 3 days before my wedding (I also lost all the honeymoon pics, which didn't go down well) but still needed the wheels refurbishing - being done as I type - and the interior sorting out - on the to do list.
That is the state she is in at the moment.
I started her up with a view to using her over the summer whilst trying to sort the interior as I went along as the next stage. However, there was a fuel leak from somewhere under the carbs. I suspected that one of the flexi hoses had perished/come loose over the winter, but cannot see anything amiss. The carbs are on a work bench waiting for Alfaholics to dispatch a gasket/seal kit and I'll look at them in the next couple of weeks.
The sump nut has also just decided to start to weep oil, so that needs looking at.
As the car wasn't going to be going anywhere I had the wheels off and they are being stripped and refurbished as well.
I am still trawling the classifieds/ebay for bits and pieces and need to find the following.
Interior - this car has the very rare red interior, mine is in a very very sorry state and either it gets replaced or re-upholstered. She need a new switch assembly on the steering column and the headliner could do with a refresh. They are now all in the future.......
I need to drop the rear axle and suspension out and have a tidy up, getting rid of some surface rust. Mechanically the gearbox needs some attention, but only with respect to synchromesh on 2nd
The body is sound with no rust anywhere and before the fuel leak she pulled very strongly.
About another 3 years then.......
I picked up the Alfa getting on for 8 years ago. Previous owner was a mechanical wiz and had intended to restore her completely, however he was offered a job preparing Astons for a race series.
The car came to me with the engine converted for unleaded with the parts being used IMO way over specced. The engine bay had been painted whilst he had taken the engine out to work on it. I have no idea why he did that he just did!
This was the state of the car when I picked her up, although I had slapped on some red oxide as he had rubbed down the paintwork but wasn't going to get time to address it, I knew I wouldn't be doing that until I had spent some time getting the brakes up to scratch, connecting the choke assembly and making the heater/fan work.
She was MOT'd (just) in this condition and I took he home and started to dig a bit deeper.
Over the next three years the brake pipes were renewed, heater stripped and refurbished and the car given a bare metal respray
She ended up looking like this. Sorry for the pic explanation to follow.
Afraid they are about the only pics I have from the respray etc. There was a full folder taken step by step of the process that was lost when my Laptop died. The car was 'finished' 3 days before my wedding (I also lost all the honeymoon pics, which didn't go down well) but still needed the wheels refurbishing - being done as I type - and the interior sorting out - on the to do list.
That is the state she is in at the moment.
I started her up with a view to using her over the summer whilst trying to sort the interior as I went along as the next stage. However, there was a fuel leak from somewhere under the carbs. I suspected that one of the flexi hoses had perished/come loose over the winter, but cannot see anything amiss. The carbs are on a work bench waiting for Alfaholics to dispatch a gasket/seal kit and I'll look at them in the next couple of weeks.
The sump nut has also just decided to start to weep oil, so that needs looking at.
As the car wasn't going to be going anywhere I had the wheels off and they are being stripped and refurbished as well.
I am still trawling the classifieds/ebay for bits and pieces and need to find the following.
Interior - this car has the very rare red interior, mine is in a very very sorry state and either it gets replaced or re-upholstered. She need a new switch assembly on the steering column and the headliner could do with a refresh. They are now all in the future.......
I need to drop the rear axle and suspension out and have a tidy up, getting rid of some surface rust. Mechanically the gearbox needs some attention, but only with respect to synchromesh on 2nd
The body is sound with no rust anywhere and before the fuel leak she pulled very strongly.
About another 3 years then.......
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