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    Bwarp's 1972 Hillman Hunter SUPER

    in Projects and Build Ups

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    Forum user AllTorque is a legend.

     

     

     

    Car was stopped about 50m down a 30 degree incline from my house. There was no way we couldve pushed it up the hill ever. So Roger gets out his stretchy rope and attaches it to the end of my hunter, and puts the other end on his legacy. we start towing up the hill and *PING* the rope breaks off the little metal hook thing. So Rog uses his superior scout knowledge and ties a decent knot in the end of it, and reattaches to both cars. We take off back up the hill and I manage to coast the Hunter part way up the incline in my driveway before it stops. we've got another 10m or so before it gets in the garage. Rog puts his life on the line and pushes on the boot of the hunter while i release the hand brake. The hunter weighs considerably more than the man, so it starts rolling backward. Rog says "is there any big tough neighbours around?".

     

    at that very moment a van full of, what looked to be, a polynesian ball sports team, pulled up our street and asked us if we needed a hand. We certainly did. Then 3 huge dudes rolled out of the van, and pushed on the back of the Hunter and it did a sweet launch into my garage, almost effortlessly.

     

    it was a christmas miracle.

     

    then Rog pulled apart my electrical thing and told me i need a "rotor" and "distributor cap" to start with as all the magic smoke in them has escaped. so i'll find some with the magic smoke still in it, and then the car might work.

     

    This is the diary of a car virgin, signing off. 

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    Bwarp's 1972 Hillman Hunter SUPER

    in Projects and Build Ups

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    I dont even know what to start looking at to fix this car haha.

     

    it was missing haaaaard under load once it warmed up. when it was cold, it seemed fine. but now its cold and it wont start at all.

     

    while i was looking for what could be wrong i found a few things i managed to fix immediately. High stop light has never worked. This was because it was unplugged. so i plugged it back in and now it appears to work again.

     

    Alternator is also missing a nut on one of the fixing bolts, so i can fix that at some point too.

     

    a wire on the top of the alternator has snapped off, and none of my haynes/gregorys manuals have any reference to an alternator that has the weird random wire on the top. i reconnected it with insulkation tape, but it's not starting still. its just a random skinny blue wire.

     

    I pulled all the plugs out and cleaned them up, they appear to be OK, but i might nip down to ripco and get s'more fresh ones. they're a bit black and sooty.

     

    i pulled the cap thing with the leads off, and "inspected" it then realise i have nfi what i was looking at. heh.

    Moped registration question

    in General Bike Chat

    Posted

    Bump

    I've got an MR2B form. I know that vehicle type needs to be '01' even though its not on the form, but what should "body type" be?

    Closest on the form is MC (motorcycle), but I'd wondered if the one for moped is actually different as there's no reference to Mopeds on this form.

    WLG LVV certification - who's good?

    in General Car Chat

    Posted

    Ken's fine, but he doesn't tolerate fuckwits well. RFB types especially.

    This.

    Don't bother with him if you resemble rfb.

    His first comment to me was "I hate lowered shit"

    He pulled me up on super reasonable stuff about my suspension geo that I hadnt considered. So I fixed and he was happy as.

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    Bike spam thread

    in General Bike Chat

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    sweet. some of the shit i found online about running in a two stroke told me to ride it on flat ground for 5-600 MILES before opening it up to high revs, and or sustained periods of RPMs.

     

    I live on a bloody hill.... and it'd take me years to do 500 miles on a scooter. it'll be blown up by then due to my atrociously careless rebuild techniques. 

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