Lude Generation

NafemanNathan wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 12, 2019 2:27 pm

I thought you had overfenders then!

haha if i was going down that route it would have to be the Me kit

he's the little bugger that fell off the bottom of the IACV...

so added tape for a bit of a better seal and *cough* cable tied it in *cough....

job done. now idles perfect.

oh and the replacement ps hose...


hose...

Nearly your 100th page birthday

well nearly two weeks ago i returned home with the lude being pulled by a breakdown truck lol electrical fault which i found several days later (as it kept blowing the fuel relay fuse) to be my bad tape wrapping....

the end of the fuel relay i had to take the resistor box off because i fitted RC550 injectors of the opposite impedence, which means soldering all the wires together. i wrapped this in tape and left it in the engine bay but the tape obviously had eventually fallen off and was touching the engine block as an earth and so shorting out.

i have now re-wrapped it in fresh tape but put some heat shrink over it so it wont come off again, plus secured it to a none metallic hose out of the way

Did it take long to find? Nice easy fix otherwise I bet your heart had sunk initially.

NafemanNathan wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:37 am

Did it take long to find? Nice easy fix otherwise I bet your heart had sunk initially.

a few days searching - when it first went i though it was a wire my son had knocked out, then i was convinced the dizzy had died but when i swapped that at the side of the road and it didnt work i noticed the fuel pump wasnt priming and so checked the fuel relay fuse which had popped. when i got her home, i fixed the wire james had knocked out which didnt fix things, i then checked to see if the main relay was faulty which it wasnt and then started checking everything in that area for a bad earth. after i'd checked everything around the drivers footwell, steering wheel cowling etc., under the bonnet was the next search and i then noticed the relay solder was exposed

yet again my fault like the other failures ive had recently nothing to do with the car, all my unfinished wiring jobs like the two alternator incidences, plus various bolts i'd missed

Good diagnosis doctor

wifey & daughter took it out for a spin the other day while it was dry


meanwhile my sad life extends to buying more rare shiz...which arrived in this lovely cover


hmmm your thinking...


ah...er...


yes!! a 2nd Gen celebration watch done in collaboration with Casio in 1982, so its 37 years old!!

the strap has completely disintegrated so i need to get a new one, plus a new battery but that will get sorted

Now that HAS to be rare!!!

What a find!

Cheers for posting
Toadster

Whete did you find that?