HSR Project - on the road again...FINALLY........

[MG Man]

Yo, yo, welcome dey pallie
have a look round a cool forum
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[gunner]

hmmm , interesting , that vauxhall is quite the beast .
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[MG Man]

Latest update:
Clutch cable has been installed and adjusted. A brief moment of anxiety occured when I pumped the pedal a few times nad heard a metallic 'clang' followed by a very soft pedal. Close examiation indicated the release bearing was not moving forward enough to act on th p ressure plate. I initially thought the clutch fork popped out of place, but as it turns out, there was some hidden 'play' that showed up when I pumped the pedal. All looks fine now.

Other work done today included refitting of radiator and relevant hoses, alternator and throttle linkage...al that's left now is some minor wiring, reinstall a battery, renew engine and gearbox oil, and try for ignition! I plan to use the same gearbox oil that Narend used in the Rexxxie
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[MG Man]

Plan today was to change engine oil.change gearbox oil, put in some fuel, full up cooling system, and steal a battery to start...........

DEcided to put some NP Ultra cuz the pil in the cramkcase was in the car for maybe a year now, and its nice and black..........no sense contaminating the Kendall.......

first hurdle: sump drain plug is a 1" nut, and the crescent just wasn't cutting it............drove to Madcrixz to borrow a spanner (Thanks Yo!), and finally changed the oil.....Stopped by the mechanic on the way back to get a jerrycan for some gas, and at the parts place to get a 17mm allen key for the gearbox drain plug...........hard luck, no 17mm so gear oil not changed

So gas in, oil in, some oil out all over floor......., removed cam covers to lube the cams, reconnect VDO oil unit.......wire snapped off yeah, that happens with 25 year old wiring........drive back out to find some spade connectors to reconnect the unit............rel ratch going on now

Time to fill radiator...........in goes the water..........out comes the water, which naturally found the puddle of black oil so seems I have either a leak in the rad or loose hose..............either way, patience was wearing tin so I gave up

Next week for sure............

in the meantime, this is what Bucket Tappets look like, for those who keep asking.....those shiny round things below the cam lobes are the buckets


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[MG Man]

So lets see.........another Sunday spent tinkering...........thanks to Alan aka Zodiaque for lending a hand / toolkit / battery.......
While waiting on him to arrive I decided to take the Dremel and clean up all the grounds where there was overspray or age-old corrosion getting in the way...
so we fixed the leaky radiator hose with the world's longest string of extensions ever fitted to a ratchet and put a battery in the car........all checks complete, a moment of silence, and ignition ON......healthy ticking from the fuel pump, watched the fuel filter fill up, watch the fuel hose spray fuel everywhere.........watch Zodi's look of horror........ignition OFF tighten fuel hoses to and from filter, try again......no leaks from hoses, all looks well, watch fuel pour from carbs.....watch Zodi's look of horror, ignition OFF
gee Alan, yuh think de floats stuck?
Remove carb lids, free up check valves......I should have remembered this would happen but anyways........carbs sealed, try again
wait for fuel pump to slow its ticking.......no smoke, no fire, no fuel leaking.........turn key
a few lazy tumbles as to be expected.
We spent a few minutes tumbling, waiting for the engine to open up after being quiet for almost a year
Then I decided a bigger battery was needed, so we swapped for Zodi-s battery, which gave the same response as mine
so I pit mine backmin and tried again...........this time, nothing.......ignition on...check.....turn to start.....Nada.......not even Nada III

The only variable was when we put my battery back on, the negative clamp BROKE
yeah, who breaks a battery clamp? Me, apparently
So I swapped for an old one, still nothing.....fitted the broken one and used a vice grip to hold it tight onto the battery terminal, still nothing

Plan now is to fit a new negative ground and see if that was the problem. If not, then something else has gone wrong............




The Saga Continues
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[Yeo]

[MG Man]

well I checked the specs on the batteries
the power master 11 plate which I tried first was 575 cranking amps
the Rocket 13 plate, which was a physically bigger battery was only 500 cranking amps, so I doubt it could have fried anything, but I'll check the fuses all the same!
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so another Sunday spent in the garage.....football? what football?
This time I brought out the big guns, my tech advisor Hammond
First order of business was to remove the carb covers and clean everything up, which included microfine filters, jets and all the plumbing. There was an alarming amount of grit in the filters, which when mixed with the varnish from being idle for a year, meant most things were gummed up. So out came the Bars and Gum Solve. Two hours later and everything was good to go..........

Then the issue of last week's starting mystery. Checks indicated I had one of the negative grounds placed incorrectly. I had run one from the terminal to the body, and another to what I thought was the block, except that it was mounted on the wrong side of the engine mount amateurs eh

So that was fixed and time to start.........new 600 cranking amp Power Master battery engine tumbled strongly but no spark. No check-light either, so Hammond mad use of a piece of wire to troubleshoot. Turned out to be the points, which we cleaned up and then tried again.

Deep breath, ignition on.........tumble.........rAAAAAAAAppppPPPPP rAAAAAApppPPPP.....cough..........choke ............wheeze.........
instant ignition, and a lil misfire, but we had it firing on all cylinders
A bit more tinkering and she was idling smoothly at 1050rpm All the more musical with the exhaust not connected yet, so we had full volume out of the collector box

Next plan is to drain the old fuel....seems the $40 I put in last week was not enough to overcome the old gas (there may have been more in the tank than I thought)

So now that she can start, next plan is to clear the other cars out and see if she can move.....hopefully the clutch is adjusted mostly correctly.....but this will have to wait till after dex
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[MadCrix]

steupse and i had the 17mm allen rench for u jackass

and where my 2 1" spanners eh eh
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May your arse lock up like a vise grip when you shift at 9000rpm - HondaHo

[MG Man]

^^^drat
the spanners in the Almera, and I had the Corolla yesterday
for dex nuh, cuz I still need the hex nut as well to change the HSR gearbox oil
Is a pity u weren't there yesterday to witness the event
plenty backfire and spitbacks b4 Hammond got her running smooth surprisingly no flame from the carbs, just the exhaust
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[MadCrix]

yea yuh doh call a coolie
u jsut racial
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May your arse lock up like a vise grip when you shift at 9000rpm - HondaHo

[NarendZORCE]

I got the call when she fired up - WAAAHHHHHHEEEEYYYYYYYY!!!!!!! She sounding healthy! Can't wait to see her run

[gunner]

wha , that slow ting , lol
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[MG Man]

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