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"Royboy66"
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posted Tue 29th Jan 2008
"Royboy66"
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From re building a 2.5 lump a couple of years ago, to pics of the car out and about, all to follow! posted Tue 29th Jan 2008
"Royboy66"
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Howdo!

All new to me this Blogg stuff! I will try to post some interesting stuff about owning and running an Old Triumph Gt6 mk1!

Roy posted Tue 29th Jan 2008
"heraldcoupe"
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I've just received the first production batch of oil filter adaptors, part number 471C, to fit Heralds and other Standard-Triumphs with the 948 and 803cc engine. There's more detail in my earlier post, but to summarise, these will allow the smaller engines to use the readily available GFE150 filter, in place of the rare and expensive Crosland 471 or AC SA filters.

I'm delighted with these, the production part has a nice radiused edge where the prototype had a square cross-section.

All customers who've pre-ordered will get theirs sent out this week, with stock available for regular mail order and show sales.

As you'll gather, I'm very pleased with the work done by this machine shop. There will be more to come from the same source through 2008. posted Mon 21st Jan 2008
"heraldcoupe"
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Electric Washer Conversion for my Herald
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I should soon have one of my Herald 948s back on the road. This one hasn't been in use for some time, and always had trouble with the screen washers.

The car hasn't been on the road for a few years, the washer system was substantially rebuilt but was always slow to prime after standing for any length of time. Having been idle for a few years, I can feel pressure but there is no movement of water, I suspect the non-return valves in the jets have become stuck in the open position.

The first picture shows the original type installation, albeit with a non-original knob on the pump.

I've never been too happy about fitting a modern replacement electric screen washer system, so I used some spare components to produce my own drop-in replacement.

The switch mounting bracket is an original one, albeit turned 180 degrees. The mounting hole has been opened out to fit a momentary contact switch. The switch itself is one commonly used as a button starter - well over-spec for driving a washer pump! I would prefer something which more closely resembles the original plunger arrangement, but I've not found anything through my suppliers yet. When I find something more appropriate I will replace the bracket with another original one, turned back to it's correct orientation.

The washer pump is currently mounted on a hand-cut piece of flat aluminium sheet. That's not pretty, but it will mount using the same holes as the switch bracket, placing the pump out of sight behind the dashboard.

The ground connection to the pump is made with a ring terminal to the bracket mounting screw, which locates to the lower dashboard's metal rail - a good ground point!

The live feed uses a piggyback connector from the heater blower switch. I need to check the current rating on the switch feed before installing the assembly.

At the moment it's snowing, and the car which is receiving the pump conversion lives about four miles from here along a single track road! When I get the kit installed I'll post an update.
 posted Thu 20th Dec 2007
"Jonny-Jimbo"
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Estate check over.
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Right then, Karl at KD Triumph checked over my Estate yesterday. All was going well until we got to the chassis, but more of that later.

Bodywork: No major rot in the body panels, and the 13/60 bonnet is in near mind condition! Doors are good, back wings good, tailgate good, bulkhead okay, valances good. All the floors are good with the exception of the passenger footwell, although this will be one of the last parts to be welded. The roof is also in great condition.

Interior: The interior is in amazingly good condition, considering that the car hasn't been used for around 10 years or so. It's blue (shadow?) with black carpets. It also has the original dash board that is uncracked and not sun damaged at all.

Mechanically: Engine runs and pulls extremely well, again with consideration that it hasn't been used for 10 years or so. Gearbox is a bit lumpy and reverse is a bit hard to find, but no more so than other cars I've driven. Brakes didn't bite too well, but once used with force and they were biting well. There was no noticeable noise from the diff, prop or half-shafts. Steering is a little hard to judge for reasons I will go into.

Not your usual Herald, as it's a Powder Blue Estate, and I can't say I've seen many of these ever. Also as far as I know it is an original 1971 Powder Blue Estate, so must have been one of the last I guess. A quick check on the DVLA shows it was first registered on 01-05-1971.

Now onto the chassis, or lack of it.
It's not the worst horror story ever, but equally hardly a fairy-tale.

The side-rails are a bit gone, as are the front riggers and tie-rod rigger. It's because of the tie-rod rigger that steering is hard to judge as the car is a bit wobbly. The main-rails aren't too bad but may fail an MOT in a year or so, so they will also be plated up well, although in time a new chassis will be sought and bought.

All in all it's a very decent car that is let down by it's chassis, which all in all is not a particularly hard repair to make.

Roll on those black Revolutions, Spit 1500 + Overdrive, lowered, nice 'zorst pipe and a good radio.
Will it be done in time for the Historic Counties? Who knows, I can but work and work and work.
Thanks again to KD Triumph for the inspection, advice and a nice cupper on a cold day. You can see their webpage at www.kdtriumph.com .




 posted Fri 29th Dec 2006
"Ellis"
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Bedford CC Mini rallies - related pics
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A piccie of the car once the additional lighting had been mounted...


A piccie taken before the April rally (also present Tim Bancroft's Grey Mk.I 2.5Pi and Dale Barker's Herald 1200 conv.)

 posted Mon 31st Jul 2006
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So what else has been going on over the last year...
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Well... one of the main reasons I bought the Bus was because of it's strong engine and strengthened body... makes for a good road rally car... something I've always wanted to try. Bedford Car Club gave me the answer when members of Club Triumph were invited to participate in their navigation rallies. You learn a lot on your first rally...

We turned up on a bitterly cold February Sunday evening in a layby just outside Olney where we met with about 4 other Club Triumph crews. We received our clues and set about trying to solve them in order to plan our route and reach the finish, a pub in Lavendon.

It was at this point Keith C-B and myself started to learn very quickly.
1. when doing a rally on a cold evening, remember to take a flask of tea to drink whilst plotting.
2. you cannot plot using interior lights or even a proper map light - OS Landranger maps are far too big.
3. navigation rally organisers are evil (in the nicest possible way) and will try and trip you up - beware !!

After about an hour of plotting we finally got underway - 5 minutes in and we seemed to be going well, picking up the control boards as we went (confirming we were on the correct route - at that point anyway). It was about that point when everything went dark... We lost main beam - now bearing in mind we are going down single track roads in the middle of the country at night, this isn't good... (later inspection showed the indicator stork had cooked itself). Anyway, somehow we managed to get the car to the end in one piece, but missed a few control boards along the way through mis-navigation and just pure not concentrating. Still, we enjoyed it and voweled it wouldn't be our last.

I knew there was another rally in March, so decided to put right some of the problems experienced...
I re-wired the all of the lights through relays and fused them all seperately. This also included installing the Cibie Oscar+ driving lights and Hella 160 Fog lights I had bought. (see seperate post with diagram).
I purchased a twin flourescent tube 12v light to stick up in the car for plotting the route. Flourescent light is by far better than any other for this as it is a pure white light, white roads look white and yellow roads look yellow... (if you don't know what I mean, take a map out to your car when it's dark and try to distinguish between white and yellow roads using only a torch or interior light... you can't).
For the March rally, I had Dale navigating for me and we ended up being the only Club Triumph entrants. Before we'd even got to the start, we'd already started getting worried... 3 OS maps were required. Keith and I had problems handling one on the last rally, let alone three !! The start was near Milton Keynes, by Shenley Wood. Navigation seemed slightly easier this time, but didn't stop us going wrong a couple of times - but we were enjoying ourselves. The Bus was absolutely flying and the lights made a huge difference, not only with the addition of the driving lights, but the standard units were so much brighter. On the last of the four stages, we had to go through a ford... I drifted the car in carefully, keeping the revs high, gently let the clutch up to get some drive and yep you've guessed it... it stalled. Tried re-starting, no chance. I'd forgotten to stick it in 1st before bringing the clutch up and it didn't like trying to pull in third... d'oh... Anyway, 10pm, freezing cold water all around us and up to the bottom of the doors, there was only one thing for it... get wet. We got out of the car and pushed her out of the water. Dale wound the spark plugs out and turned the engine over a few times to blast the water out of the engine. I spent most of this time bailing the interior of the car out (which had accumulated about 3" of water). Amazingly after about 10 minutes drying, timed by Dale smoking 2 fags, he wound the plugs back in reconnected the HT leads and the car started first time. OK, she was spluttering a bit, but respect was earned that night !!! We reached the finish with eveyone wondering what had happened to us and unfortunately too late for what would have been a much needed beer. Oh well...

Over the course of the days following the March rally, I removed the entire interior to wash everything and allow the car to dry out properly... but it was evident, there were still a few issues, namely noisy bearings. Before the next rally, I replaced both front wheel bearings which had dried out as a result of the off road experience... the best was still to come though...

April's event, Keith C-B back in the navigators seat and we were determined nothing would go wrong this time... and to be fair aside from a couple of plotting errors, we should have been spot on, just didn't quite follow the route we'd plotted on the road, hence we had a few penalties.

The season starts again in October and I can't wait to get the Bus out there in the thick of it again... posted Mon 31st Jul 2006
"Ellis"
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Unfortunately, with the delays and weather closing in, we couldn’t make it to the Stelvio run, but did venture onto the Splugenpass. This was brilliant and we made great use of the SatNav, with me calling the corners to Darren in a rally stylee… just a bit hairy when we rounded a hairpin bend leading the pack of cars and were faced with a cow in the middle of the road.


As we came down the pass, everyone was getting low on fuel and we were pleased to find a little village with a fuel station/café. Everyone re-fueled and some emergency work was carried out on a few cars before continuing into Liechtenstein, Austria and then Germany.


We arrived at the Nurbergring after a few interesting detours whilst following one of the other cars who was “leading the pack”. Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to venture onto the circuit, have to save that one until next time.


On to Luxembourg and to complete the 10 countries, Belgium where we stopped for the night.


Following a great BBQ with the other crews and a well earned rest for the night, we set off for Calais and the journey back to Blighty. We surprised a few Mercs and Beemers on the M20 after filling up with some 99 octane super unleaded and then finished at the Plough, near on 2000 miles around Europe in a long weekend – Marvellous.

A huge well done to Martin Randle and all his work to organise the event and to everyone that took part as that's what makes the event.

I only hope the next one is as good - cause I'm organising it... gulp !!!

posted Mon 31st Jul 2006
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The 10CR… seems so long ago now – but my word what a weekend. The car was pretty much faultless for the entire trip…

We helped one of the other crews on the way to the ferry who had over heated. This saw us miss the early ferry that most crews had caught, so once reaching France, we were on catch up. The car was really pushed and by taking some faster roads, by the time we reached the first fuel stop, we had caught the other cars.



Soon after the overdrive switch began to play up. Thankfully, this happened just as we pulled into a fuel station and I was able to fix the problem (wiring on the switch).

We headed into Switzerland and some great roads Martin Randle had planned out. Going through the Mont Blanc tunnel was definitely an experience… 4K revs held throughout… absolutely deafening for anyone near us – (Sorry Andy and Paul !!)

We continued on through into Italy and were stopped by the Police, brandishing machine guns. To be fair it was just a routine stop down a highway… they see a British car with stickers on the side, it’s bound to gain some interest… just a shame they couldn’t speak English as I think they were quite interested in the car.

A short detour to Monaco and then back into Italy saw us arrive at the overnight stop in Ventimiglia. Not exactly the Ritz, but a friendly enough place to get some rest. Next day, we set off for our lunchtime rendez vous in Lesa with Alberto from the Italian TR register. Again, we were made to feel more than welcome and following a quick fan belt change (it was looking a bit frayed to risk taking into the Alps), we set off.

cont...

 posted Mon 31st Jul 2006
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