Sunbeam

I wanted the wheel spacers from the parts wreck. Trolley jacks are so yesteryear.

Been dailying this for a couple of weeks. It’s not terrible. But boy, old cars are low geared. This thing easily has enough torque to maintain 100 k at 1000-1200 rpm lower.

Original was 0.6 ohm. Spec is 0.238-0.435. Was putting out volts, just not enough

Motorbike electricity question: I have a WR250 that was failing to charge the battery. I followed the instructions in the workshop manual and the stator primary coil failed the resistance test, it was out of spec high. So I bought a new stator from Moto1 (RM branded), fitted it and now I have no spark. So I got the multimeter out again and both the primary coil and the pickup coil are open circuit. WTF? Do these things have a habit of being DOA?

I hear good things about Circle track engineering in chch. I found them hard to communicate with so I had a driveshaft rebuilt (new slip join spline welded on) by MS Coombes. Did a good job but I thought at $1300 it was a lot of money for what it is. This is nearly 3 years of inflation ago.

I went to the upholstery shop today and they’re going to adjust the way the trim is stretched over the backrest. We decided the mounts and the frame were straight. It was raining today and I don’t often take it out in the rain (because water soluble) but it’s nice that it doesn’t leak, the heater is good, and the wipers are effective. The stuff we take for granted these days.

After: It was difficult to get an exact match colour-wise, but in the car it’s pretty good. Of course the only supplier of said vinyl is an angry Greek shark and it was eye wateringly expensive, but ya know YOLO. Final bill was horrific and I don’t want to talk about it anymore…It would have been cheaper to buy an Alfa 156 with tan leather and pilfer the seats. Also, small problem. The driver’s backrest now looks on the piss, it leans outboard. Sigh.

Thanks OSers for helping me think through this. Confirmed egr cooler internal split. It’s bypassed, and I will investigate having the ute tuned and deleted.

Turns out these things are notorious for it so that’s why I tried it. I’ll pressure test the cooler to make sure

Didn’t think so until I discovered a low tide situation in the radiator, expansion tank was at the proper level. I guess if there is enough air in the radiator it doesn’t suck out of the overflow anymore

EGR cooler bypassed/egr disabled and a bottle of injector cleaner and almost no smoke today. Not ready to claim victory yet.

^prefer to avoid…

I started it this morning and unplugged an injector one by one but this was inconclusive, miss might be random. Was going to take it to the local garage to scan, but he’s shut up shop permanently to go mining! Now I have to find a new wof guy too-uuurgh!

Fixed..

Can’t see any leakage, doesn’t mean it’s not there. Looks like new injectors can be had for $500 which isn’t too bad by modern standards