Roger Keys

Heres an odd one.

Under heavy braking oil pressure drops, basically to zero if its from a high enough speed.

Plenty of oil, including overfilling it.

Checked the dipstick against my other Stag. All ok too.

Is this a known issue, ie cracked pick up pipe etc?

Any ideas? Is there baffling in the sump on these?

Just got cracking with some prep tonight. Lots of parts to swap off old stag onto the new one. CV shafts and prop, calipers, rear drums, LED headlights etc,etc,

And fit my Federal headrests.

Going to be a busy weekend.

Im with these two ^^^^^^^

Tinkering round the edges is going to happen. Totally changing the event however is something else entirely.

I may gives one Stag a wash

Yes me!!

I can only describe it as outstanding. (stag) Of course, not all LED lamps are made equal. Much research done.

I bought the extra expensive ones from these guys. No complaints at all. http://www.dynamoregulatorconversions.com/

Websites a bit hard work though............

Quoted from chunky63

I shared the marshalling at Okehampton and discussed tiredness with lots if the teams.

May i make a suggestion to include another check point in the tiring stretches. In between WZL and Okehampton its a rather tedious M5-A30 journey in the middle of the night, a brief stop at Exeter services might help. There might be other places as well.

Cheers
Jon

Quoted from Jonny-Jimbo

I was planning on coming off at Junction 51 for Leeming, and cutting through the B roads, but it seems like the A1 may still be closed at that section too. Maybe a change of plans for us!

Quoted from Howard

Roger,

I am doing one again for anyone with a Garmin Nuvi SatNav as mentioned in my earlier post:-

"These days I use the SatNav as my primary navigation system, but for a run like the RBRR this is not simply a matter of entering the post codes of the various halts.

After getting the road book I boot up my computer with Google Maps & the Garmin Base Camp program. Every road & turn is traced from the road book using the satellite aerial photos to check any details not shown on the maps (eg the specific location of a stop) and the detailed route is created in the Base Camp map.

Maps of each sector are printed from the computer and then the route is uploaded onto the SatNav & we are ready to go.

All this takes a some hours work, but makes life a lot easier on the run. Since the large scale computer maps have been studied in detail I form a good mental picture of where we are going reducing the risk of getting lost

If anyone would like a copy route in Garmin format, please contact me via PM (please include your entry no)"

Cheers

Howard

On the last round britain run, someone did a sat nav file for the actual route.

This was most excellent and certainly helped us, allowing more sleeping time.

Has anyone done one for this years event? And if so, would they be willing to share????

CW 1 inch lowering springs all round and Konis. Rimmers still have stock of Konis (or they did).

Just a fantastic set-up. Did the 1CR on this. Very composed, but not hard or uncomfortable.

The Konis are expensive, no doubt, but you can tell. Had spax on the rear of the estate. They were OK, thats about all i can say. Konis next time when its back on the road.

Quoted from cliftyhanger

Paint the car. yesterday teh starter capacitor decided to go lumpy and leak some stuff that set like a rock, ending the DA sander use. I guess better that than a spraygun with a litre of freshly mixed 2k.

New part ordered, so service should resume this week!

Entered.

With the Stag. Though it would be great to do it in the Sprint again, which i did the 1990 run in, and the subsequent 4. Prob a big ask though

I think you maybe over analysing this.

From here it looks to be under control. As mentioned above, your current fan switching suggests you are trying to control it to too narrow a window.

Because you now have data, you are seeing things that the rest of us are oblivious too. Dead handy though to fault find if you do have a problem.

Recently fitted a pertronix to a 2500S. It doesn't get any easier. Had one on my dodge charger for a few years too. No complaints at all.

Ive got the 1 inch lowering coils from Chris Witor, Koni shocks all round and my lovely new contis. At no point on the 10CR could i get it to understeer or oversteer, even when being downright silly.

Bear in mind that if you have too much bar, it may well corner flat but you might get more understeer if you cant load the front tyre enough. And you will also reduce compliance on poor roads.

I was very pleased with the simple mods on my stag, and, after the 10CR, cant see any reason to change it. And thats from a born tinkerer! Dont under estimate how much of a difference a decent set of shocks can make. The Konis ARE expensive, but they are good.

Quoted from cliftyhanger

Gill and myself both thoroughly enjoyed the event. Made some lovely new friends, saw new places and drove some great roads. And ate some delicious cakes! (and Tim, you are a thoroughly over-generous chap!)

Quoted from timbancroft61

Started on my car months ago, still working on the thing right up to the limit.

In fact, totally pi**ed off with the whole shooting match.

Everything seems such a PITA!

Quoted from Howard

Base Camp is very good but most certainly lacking a good manual.

To start with it depends on which maps you have loaded. The basic map set only shows the major routes and cities so you have to upload the maps from your satnav. Once that is done you can access all the details and more importantly you can save them on the PC so you don't need your satnav plugged all the time.

Also there is a box on the menu bar which allows you to select the resolution you want. To see everything you need to select "high" but not a good when zoomed out to see the whole of Europe

When I was plotting the route I had both BaseCamp and Google maps (on Firefox) open so I could switch between them. I am not aware of any method of linking them directly, but I haven't looked. It was possible to enter the start co-ordinates in google birds eye view and to actually see that it was a large public car park so I knew it was correct.

Hope that helps, but if you need any more help, we can chat at during the rally (Red TR7)

Howard

Quoted from Howard

I have moved from maps to using a Garmin Nuvi satnav (full European Maps) with their free BaseCamp software on my PC.  Using BaseCamp takes some learning, but the level of detail is amazing with even the smallest road shown on full zoom. I entered the Control Point Lat/Long then dragged and dropped the route to exactly match the road book while using Google maps (satellite view) to make sure that it is correct. (The hardest part is getting the PC to talk to the SatNav, but that is another issue)

A map is essential as a back up in case something goes wrong and we need to take an unplanned detour, but otherwise the navigator sits back and enjoys the view

PS: The Nuvi includes free map updates, so will remain accurate for a number of 10 Country Rallies.

PPS I like to look at my old map books showing the routes we have driven & I have done something similar with this. I printed out the map showing each day's route & filed it with the road book.

What "real" maps are people? using. Ive got the largest scale one available, but a lot of the roads in the book are too small to even feature on said map (phillips multiscale one). Which rather complicates using said map.

Bit stumped on that.

Quoted from tiggrr1

Gearbox problem sorted out 🙂

Just needs the tunnel putting back in.

Change Engine oil, fit Mintex 1144's up front and good to go 😎

Quoted from thescrapman

Roger

Jonathan Fallowell who is up at Coventry area has a couple of boxes he is trying to shift, there is an advert somewhere on the forum. Someone did ask, but i am sure a deal could be done for the bellhousing off one of them as it is kinda urgent.

I have a type65 out back that has sat for too long so is probably no good as a gearbox anymore, but bellhousing is all there. Was on a Dolomite though, not sure if that makes a difference.

Fitting LHD headlights. Surely, it cant be any easier on most of our cars. Just 3 screws abd swap them over?

Quoted from tiggrr1

It's not my gearbox that is busted,

I mistakenly thought it would be an easy job to shoehorn a dolly sprint gearbox into a GT6 🙁

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Quoted from tiggrr1

I have not given up yet, just a little hacked off at the moment.