MOTOR CHAT

[jimihendrix]

Re:

It's a Series 1 Elite, actually it's not too bad, rear drive shafts need re-built (these things eat rear shafts), needs a fuel pump and Battery few other bits and bobs, it sat outside parked half in a hedge for six months, drove fine on the way home though (Hamilton to Paisley)

Long term the interior will need tidied and it really needs a respray.

Didn't know a lot about Elites before i bought it, looked at the shape on Google images, kind of like a Reliant Scimitar (another car i fancied), imagined the rear seats folding down, may be able to get a bike in the back i thought, ha, fat chance , rear seat is fixed and the tiny boot will hold two bags of shopping.

Will upload more pics later.

 

[The Ken]

Re:

Love it Jimi, mate had one 20 years back, your's looks better than his did then

 

[velomaniac]

Not that I can drive (least ways not a 'proper'car legally) but because of my period of three wheeled Reliant ownership i rather like Scimitars too so if this looks similar I'll watch this latest build with interest.

 

[clubby]

Bets on how long before it's lowered and has a massive turbo fitted?

 

[RobMac]

Bets on how long before it's lowered and has a massive turbo fitted?

Yeah that sounds like him, brash and vulgar :mrgreen:
Ees a petrol heed after all.

 

[mattr]

Glad I got my fast car phase out of the way when I was being paid to break them.

 

[RobMac]

Glad I got my fast car phase out of the way when I was being paid to break them.

"Scrap Merchant?" :shock:







:mrgreen:

 

[keithyr]

Looks great Mark.

 

[mattr]

Glad I got my fast car phase out of the way when I was being paid to break them.

"Scrap Merchant?" :shock:







:mrgreen:

some of them were only fit for scrap after they were finished with.......

 

[jonthefish]

Broken head?

Hoping you wise men and women can see what I cannot.

Toyota Hilux Surf 3L 1994 Jap import. Drives ok for 300 miles with coolant levels steady. Then overheats and pumps frothy coolant onto Scotland via expansion tank. So far so busted cylinder head/head gasket (usually the former on these).

From cold, the coolant starts pressurising and bubbling instantly on start up. Got to be combustion gas in coolant then. However......test for combustion gas consistently negative and no hint of white smoke at exhaust or combustion smell from rad or expansion tank. [No oil in coolant or vice versa but the way the head cracks on these this means nowt.]

Have flushed rad, block and heater matrix both ways, replaced radiator cap and thermostat, done known airlock fixes. Same bubbles and coolant loss from start up. Flushing coolant did reveal much "radweld" coppery crap in cooling system :evil: .

So.... Symptoms say cylinder head or gasket gone. Can anyone explain tester not finding combustion gas in coolimg system? It bubbles like toil and trouble so huge amounts of gas are getting in there. The gas tester definitely works for CO2 (goes blue to green if breathed on or held by exhaust). Bubbling coolant (now just water) simply smells like hot water - no hint of fumes. I'm loathe to pull the cylinder head off it just to check but cannot think what else to do.

Ideas???

cheers

EDIT- meant to put this in Motors. How to move?