When it does go i'll let you know if there are any spares left,may be something of use..
Mark
Thanks Mark, I really appreciate the thought. It's a shame to hear that you're thinking of selling the car, but then if you're not really using it that much I guess it makes perfect sense. Best of luck whatever you decide to do with it...
Great story and love the place you picked up the car, landscape design at its best with an interesting specimen in every view. Good luck with the car it looks just perfect.
Thanks Dude. The best thing about the landscape design is that whenever Mikeys Dad feels like it (usually when he's a bit drunk), he just jumps in the bulldozer and re-landscapes it. While we were walking around the place, one of Mikeys good mates (who is there all the time) said, "I don't remember this bit of track?" Mikey's response, "That's because it wasn't there until a bottle of Jamesons a few months back, I lose track of the place myself!"
It's such an awesome place.
Stick a load of Cillit bang in the engine and rad, Bang and the lime scale is gone
Hi MM,
You are doing the right thing with the engine and rad, something mildly acidic to react with the base scale (caustic soda won't work being a base too, just eat all the aluminium away
).
The scale you have all around the engine will be due to lack of coolant changes and using hard tap water to fill the rad. Rain water is better if you can get a couple of gallons from somewhere?
The scale is also an incredible insulator, with a conductivity of ~2-3 Wm-1K-1 which is very low compared with copper 401 Wm-1K-.
Get it cleared out and you will at least be moving the heat from the engine to the water, and the water to the air!
With the seals, sticking them on with a glue gun will only be a temporary measure, hot melt glue loses it's adhesion after around 30 days :/ Contact adhesive is a much better prospect, I did some of the under bonnet seals on the XM
Thanks guys. Before reading any of this I'd gone and bought some brick acid to use in the rad. I just didn't feel the limescale remover was working well enough, so 5 litres of Wickes finest poured into the rad and it certainly seemed to make more fizz than the other stuff.
James (VileRug) had a glod look through the pipework around the engine and came to the same conclusion that I did, that it all looked surprisingly good, just a bit brown....with the only real evidence of limescale build up on the bottom sections where it just settles. The actual waterways themeselves all look good.
As for the seal, thanks Dude, I'm aware of the (lack of) longevity on the glue-gun side of things. That was, in part, on purpose because it is only a temporary fix until I can afford the proper seals and also because it's so easy to get off ready for when I do the job properly.
Thanks Dude. I've looked at lots of other options, but the seal type on the Jag/Daimler doors is nothing like any of those, it actually sits into a box channel rather than having that clip-on type seal that nearly every other manufacterer uses. I'm just going to run it as it is for now until I can buy the proper and complete set. Even at £4 per meter, that probably adds up to more than the £135 for the genuine kit by the time you've done all four doors all the way around?
You could fit an electric heater pump to get more water through the heater matrix, have done this in the past and it is very effective. I'm currently trying to remember what we got the pumps off though....
I'm hoping that just getting the valve to operate (details to come) will make it work. As it is, it's just jammed shut not letting any hot water into the matrix. You'll see the progress made in the next update ;D
Everything about this scene:
Just no! From the outset, this car was never going to be a Withnail & I tribute/pastiche/cliche (I'm actually aiming this comment at everyone who has posted up pics and references to the film
)
As I quoted on a status on Brian Damaged's FB page, "As you know with me too Brian, it's blaggers all the way! None of this poncy airy fairy hippy stuff with Richard E Grant. The more people post Withnail & I up on RR, the more I want to punch them in the face."
Don't take it the wrong way Dude, I just feel more in tune with going bank robber spec than removing a headlight and dressing like a hobo in the hope of getting a good rogering from Uncle Monty.
Delete.
Did the thermostat open all the way (the pic makes it look as if it does not open all of the way
. The rad cores look like a familiar sight. It will be great to see what plans you have in store for this car once they start coming to fruition
:
It was really difficult to photograph, but it did open up a fair way. I've got a new one to go in anyway, so it's not too much of an issue hopefully...and along with the ongoing rad treatment and heater matrix work, fingers crossed things will be a lot better in the not too distant future.
Forgive me for asking but I did spy a tasty looking Stag in the background of one of your shots sitting nicely on Revolutions. Any more information on it?:
That Stag had some interesting mods done to it. Unfortunately I was busy photographing other things and didn't really take note of what had been done, but I did catch the bit about a custom sectioned grille with the headlights moved and something about making things wider? Put it this way, the others were around it long enough (considering how many other cars we looked at) to make me remember that there were some special things going on with it. I'll see if I can find out more...and maybe, just maybe, Butterz took a photo of it??
W*nker ;D
I'm so envious of you right now, this is all kinds of awesome x
Thanks Amigo. I need to speak to you....got some ideas involving this car, some guys, your good self and some camera equipment.
I know it's a Daimler and not a Jaaag, but I think this needs a sheepskin coat, a rollneck jumper and a Zapata moustache
I'm feeling more akin to dressing like Bob Hoskins as the 'heavy' in Mona Lisa and convincing my GF to dress like a hooker so I can cruise around the dark streets of Bristol with her in the back while playing some Genesis and looking hard as nails*
*Many things tell me that his will never, ever happen but it doesn't stop me from fantasising about it! I've got the right kinda car so I'm one step closer than a lot of people.
Great car, great pics, great storey
as usuall
I recon blocked rad or waterpump impellers rotted away from the way you describe the overhesting, shame the cabin heater wernt working that might have kept the temps down enough to get home in one go ?
Thanks Dude, that was the first thing I tried when the temp gauge started rising, "Damn...no heat, that's not going to help!" The water pump all seems fine from what we can tell. I'm just taking it one stage at a time for the moment...I don't have the money to be sorting everything at once, so just ruling things out starting with the cheapest/easiest to check/fix.
Love it Bruce, what an awesome car. Your plans for it sound ideal as usual, it should make an awesome road-trip car. I've got a massive hankering for something classic and silly as a daily later in the year, and this isn't helping! (in a good way though
)
Sorry if I'm not helping the cause....but you know it makes sense to have something that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If that makes sense?
get some silicone grease on those door seals and they'll soon plump up.
and before you fit that other heater valve, have look if the valve still shrouds the bore when fully open . if they are like the MGB one, then they are a poor design and block water flow to the heater. use one off a black cab
Thanks Matt, I'll give the silicone grease a try, but even as it is, it's a LOT better than having nothing there at all.
As for the heater valve, I've refitted mine for now after a long day spent working on it all on Saturday. Once everything else is back in and (hopefully) working, I'll see if it's OK. Fingers crossed.