Richard B Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Pre-proving run to Ace cafe Hendon in Stag okProving run to Le Mans in Stag okPost proving run to Winchester okNeed to sort steering column bearing for MOTWould like to swap to Datsun driveshafts, fit relays on headlights and fit the rectangular Lucas fog lights before October.WAM looking good for 2016 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Chaged the rear tie bar bushes in the Toledo yesterday. Needs a few tweeks as I was struggling to get all the washers back on with the new bushes, but the clonk on pulling away has gone. Also fitted some dolomite rear springs, sits the car a tad higher at he back and a bit firmer too. Both good things!(Also refitted the towbar so I can start shifting tat out of the garden with the trailer)Next week, faff with those bushes again, and get all the washers in the correct way round (it seems they are counter-intuitive, and previously fitted wrong) and swap the front springs. Plus take out the parcel tray and fix the heater which seems to be jammed by the tray , maybe reversing lamp and fog light too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveKent Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 Quoted from timbancroft61 Good to see that so many of the cars are coming together, once again the RBRR will be graced by some interesting Triumph cars.At present, we have 150no cars on the event, by far the largest amount that has started the event-blimey!Amazed to see that Dave Kent is getting his Toledo ready......normally he makes me nervous by leaving it until the eve of the RBRR to start on the car. Sad to see BOK in the pics, looking forlorn. (By the way, Dave, the window winders were in for last years 10CR)!My prep work will consist of changing the prop and re-building the driveshafts, not sure when this will happen though! Tim , BOK is still the car of choice for the RBRR, but it needs a lot of TLC so the Toledo "back up" has to be prepared first!! Does that actually make any sense?????I got a feeling we'll be in the Tolly!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleksandar Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 Team 47. We have acted on the advice given by Mr Barker at the TR international weekend.The main under car fuel pipe has been changed to a 1/4" pipe.A bracket/clamp has been made to which the pump has been attached thus allowing resighting to the chassis inboard of the nearside rear wheel for easy access.The fuel filter has also been resighted to the rear of the car between the tank and pump.The reason being that the engine bay on our RMB Gentry is not very big and in very hot weather we have always suffered fuel evaporation.Took our Gentry out for a test drive on scorching saturday all now sorted.thank you Mr Barker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Wilson Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Decision has been made to change car, we'll now be doing it in the TR7. Always 2018 for the Moss to returnMr Chinn should have received an email Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mole42 Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Quoted from Richard B , fit relays on headlights and fit the rectangular Lucas fog lights before October I've just finished making the brackets for my Lucas fog lights, and nearly finished the bracket for the Cibié Oscar spotlights. Relay panel going in the week after I get back from holiday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cook1e Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 The Flying Log now has an MOT ready for the RBRR.It failed a few weeks back on in-balanced brakes and some corrosion around the front subframe rear mounts on the pseudo chassis legs.It had a new front caliper on one side before the RBRR last time, so I rebuilt the other one with a new seal and replaced the pads with a new set of green stuff. I also replaced the rear shoes and mucked about with the rear adjusters.Got the chassis legs repaired which ended up a bigger job than anticipated as the body above the legs was also rusted through.The MOT place also had a look at the rear brakes as they were still not up to scratch. Turned out that the adjuster wheels were on the wrong sides, ie left adjuster in the right drum and vice versa. I've only ever stripped down one rear brake at a time so the previous owner must have swapped them. This meant that operating the handbrake was slackening rather than tightening the rear brakes! I'd just assumed that the auto adjusters weren't working as they are a crap design!Anyway that's all done now.Jobs to do apart from giving it a darn good service and tune up.1. Change both front wheel bearings2, Sort out one of the inner tie rod ball joints on the steering rack as it has play but not enough to fail the MOT.3. Make up a skid plate to go around the rear exhaust box. Last time on the RBRR the exhaust box was grounding out on the rough roads in the wilds of Scotland. The rear box hangs pretty low on a 1500 (or 1850) Dolomite and with a boot full of spares and 3 largish blokes on board the car was sitting low. Idea is to make a skid plate "sacrificial" wrap to go under the rear box so that it takes the brunt of the scraping rather then the box otherwise it may well wear through!4. Try and sort out the fuel gauge which gets stuck at just under half full, it's not the gauge or sender as I've changed both (in fact I've tried 3 different senders). It's not the voltage stabilizer as that's kicking out 10v max as it should. Must be something wrong with the tank. It went wrong on the last RBRR after about 1700 miles and we ran out of fuel, don't know how a tank can just go suddenly wrong! Wgen it runs out of fuel there appears to be at least a couple of Gallons left so it's like the pickup in the tank is sitting too high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveKent Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 The Toledo is beginning to look like something capable of the RBRR now.I still need to adjust the spring/ride height refit the manifolds and exhaust and change the seats, plu a few other bits and bobs.......oh, and of course see if it will MOT!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Bancroft Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Holiday, lucky devil....get into the garage!Car looks good, nice wheels! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyb Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 MGF 15inch spare's if I'm not mistaken! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Wilson Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 I can see some late nights during the coming weeks coming up as I'm doing something every weekend up to the event........... apart from the sunday of the drivers briefing weekendwaiting for the distributor to come back, once that's fitted I'll hopefully get the front suspension sorted with new inserts and new springs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cook1e Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 One important bit of prep work done tonight, actually got around to setting up the just giving page for Team "Flying Log".. About time too!Feel free to copy bits of what I've written if you are setting one up....http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/FlyingLog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radders Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Gertie the Mk1 saloon....I've now decided to fit gas shocks on the front as well as the rear and discovered a completely knackered strut top in doing so. Amazing what power steering masks isn't it? 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveKent Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Hmm, Although low is good, how low is too low?? !! Think the adjusting spanner is due for a workout!What about a VW buggy style exhaust? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveKent Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 Quoted from mikeyb MGF 15inch spare's if I'm not mistaken! Close!! I could only find 14 inch ones though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgetone Triumph Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 A couple more jobs to do after the gearbox change The extension on the short tail pipe will hopefully reduce fumes entering through the after market tailgate rubber when the windows are open The cross member mounts were long over due.....Like 6 years 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Just waiting for something else to kick us in the backside........Rbrr vitesse is running again!Head gasket went,head skimmed and also needed new valves. New gasket fitted then found the heater system full of gooey antifreeze.......new heater valve fitted.....rear Union on inlet manifold corroded so badly on one pipe Nick decided to buy a new one, unbolting it the banjo bolt snapped fortunately a quick chat on the phone with Richard Brake and I knew how to try and get the snapped bit out( pushed a bolt into the hole and welded it all the way round, then simply unbolted it)......Nick ordered a new one......today the next door neighboured fell off his ladder and landed on Nicks vitesse cracking paint on the rear wing.I went round after work today to see the damage and the new parts had arrived......so all fitted and run up to temperature. All seems good as couldn't do this before, mot booked for Saturday so fingers crossed we are getting somewhere with it now.......unfortunately life keeps getting in the way so progress hasn't been as fast as ideal.We still need to fit a softtop just in case... Check diff and gearbox levels, grease rear trunnions, strip front links and hubs oh and the radiator overflow bottle needs locating somewhere does anyone have a picture of where it goes?Then we need to get some miles on it and retourqued the head! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shed 1969 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 I cant even bare to think how much I have to do...just chugging through list one job at a time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobPearce Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Team 17's officially entered car still needs: painting, wiring harness, door locks, windows, boot hinges, dashboard, steering column, seats, handbrake, carburettors, lights... then the engine's first run in twenty years, MOT, tax, a bit of a shakedown...OK, so team 17's reserve car... needs the fuel flooding issue sorted out, new battery, probably new headlights (the reflectors have seen better days) and ideally a fresh MOT (due mid-October but better to sort in advance).Hopefully the second reserve needs nothing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shed 1969 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 You haven't 3rd reserve I could borrow if needed! per chance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve28 Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Quoted from RobPearce Team 17's officially entered car still needs: painting, wiring harness, door locks, windows, boot hinges, dashboard, steering column, seats, handbrake, carburettors, lights... then the engine's first run in twenty years, MOT, tax, a bit of a shakedown...OK, so team 17's reserve car... needs the fuel flooding issue sorted out, new battery, probably new headlights (the reflectors have seen better days) and ideally a fresh MOT (due mid-October but better to sort in advance).Hopefully the second reserve needs nothing... Sounds like our entry car, but we do have the toledo as back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Wilson Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 We're already on the reserve car, just waiting for distributor to come back from overhaul. Ideally we'd get the front suspension changed, but what is one will do if it has to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Toledo failed its MoT. But only on the horn. And that is because I moved the horn when I fitted a remote servo, and never go round to extending the wiring by the 4"... anyway, all done ready for retest. A few advisories, same stuff as every year......Onto more useful stuff. A pair of speakers have been fitted to the front doors, and a new stereo bought to provide something to play some muzak on. Just needs screwing into position and connections made. Also wondering about an air freshener, and stopping the exhaust banging when accelerating from standstill..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveKent Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Oh dear some unexpected welding needed around the front subframe mount- can anyone recommend someone to repair it to a good standard asap so i can get the Toledo MOTd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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