Strums fingers....

I'd like to say I'm sat at Malvern posting via my laptop... but I'm not :-(

After some early morning deliberation - should we/shouldn't we (thanks to
some bitching I found in "Six stud" at 1am when I finally got to sit and
read it but more of that another time) we were set to go in Morph. Seat
belts on, hit the starter - fired up first time... ticked over nicely,
pushed the choke in and after about 20 seconds she died. Eventually found it
to be the earth on the petrol pump but that meant sorting a leak on the
sender in the process and pulling out half the interior on one side. Trip
around the block and the indicators died, bad earth, sorted that and the
alternator packed in... Is it me?Was I really that bad in a previous life?
Alternator from Percy is now fitted, trip around the block and dare I say it
he seems ok but only after I resigned myself to the fact we weren't going
today I decided it best to tidy up some wiring given the alternator was off.

Just got in...dark , wet and miserable BUT I've still got a full tank of
Petrol..... and a knackered alternator :-(

I think Morph may be making a protest.

Lee D
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Lee_D wrote:
> I'd like to say I'm sat at Malvern posting via my laptop... but I'm not :-(
>
> After some early morning deliberation - should we/shouldn't we (thanks to
> some bitching I found in "Six stud" at 1am when I finally got to sit and
> read it but more of that another time) we were set to go in Morph. Seat
> belts on, hit the starter - fired up first time... ticked over nicely,
> pushed the choke in and after about 20 seconds she died. Eventually found it
> to be the earth on the petrol pump but that meant sorting a leak on the
> sender in the process and pulling out half the interior on one side. Trip
> around the block and the indicators died, bad earth, sorted that and the
> alternator packed in... Is it me?Was I really that bad in a previous life?
> Alternator from Percy is now fitted, trip around the block and dare I say it
> he seems ok but only after I resigned myself to the fact we weren't going
> today I decided it best to tidy up some wiring given the alternator was off.
>
> Just got in...dark , wet and miserable BUT I've still got a full tank of
> Petrol..... and a knackered alternator :-(
>
> I think Morph may be making a protest.
>
> Lee D
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>
> Anti's - Give them enough rope and they'll be stuck in a ditch with a lot of
> rope ;-)

Sorry to hear that you have had all those problems but I do feel a bit
better that there's someone else stuck at home!!

Dave

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:05:52 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I'd like to say I'm sat at Malvern posting via my laptop... but I'm not :-(
>
>After some early morning deliberation - should we/shouldn't we (thanks to
>some bitching I found in "Six stud" at 1am when I finally got to sit and
>read it but more of that another time) we were set to go in Morph. Seat
>belts on, hit the starter - fired up first time... ticked over nicely,
>pushed the choke in and after about 20 seconds she died. Eventually found it
>to be the earth on the petrol pump but that meant sorting a leak on the
>sender in the process and pulling out half the interior on one side. Trip
>around the block and the indicators died, bad earth, sorted that and the
>alternator packed in... Is it me?Was I really that bad in a previous life?
>Alternator from Percy is now fitted, trip around the block and dare I say it
>he seems ok but only after I resigned myself to the fact we weren't going
>today I decided it best to tidy up some wiring given the alternator was off.
>
>Just got in...dark , wet and miserable BUT I've still got a full tank of
>Petrol..... and a knackered alternator :-(
>
>I think Morph may be making a protest.

sorry about that. Thats the sort of thing that made me happy to rip
out all my wiring and rewire the truck!

Can you remember what the connectors on the level sender should do and
how many you have?
My sender appears to have 2 spade terminals on top, one stump which
looks like it could have had a terminal on that snapped off and it
also has an inch long bit of braided earth coming off it (also not
attached to owt yet).
Ive run 2 wires to it and have an earth wire ready, anticipating that
i might have a level wire and a low fuel wire and also need an earth,
but no idea which is which!

Tom Woods <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny
about:
> sorry about that. Thats the sort of thing that made me happy to rip
> out all my wiring and rewire the truck!
>
> Can you remember what the connectors on the level sender should do and
> how many you have?

Vividly!

> My sender appears to have 2 spade terminals on top, one stump which
> looks like it could have had a terminal on that snapped off and it
> also has an inch long bit of braided earth coming off it (also not
> attached to owt yet).
> Ive run 2 wires to it and have an earth wire ready, anticipating that
> i might have a level wire and a low fuel wire and also need an earth,
> but no idea which is which!

Yep there are two sets of wires running to the sender. On my sender the
pipes from the Eber inlet / outlet face towards the drivers side (so we know
we are both looking at it the same) Now the connector nearest the driver has
a single wire to it, this comes from the voltage regulator so you should get
a voltage which cycles between 10.5 volts and 13.5 or so when running. The
second wire fastens to the earth on the sender (i suspect yours has
previously snapped off hence your braid replacement)... this connector (on
morph at least!) has two wires on it... one feeding the earth and the other
hoping off to feed the earth on the fuel pump.

Can't recall the colours other than the earth one being black...as in black
not covered in cack like the rest.

My sender was leaking around the nut that goes through it, got some of that
leak fix stuff from Halfrauds and it's now sorted, I didn't dare fix the
earth till the leak was sorted as there was £80.00 worth of fuel in there so
I couldn't afford to blow that away ;-)

Still here... not 100 % happy with the alternator off Percy as the Ignition
used to glow alot at low revs, I will try and get another today to replace
Morphs broken one and then I'll reconsider tomorrow AM if it's not raining
Cats and Dogs like it was last night here.

Lee D

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:11:09 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Yep there are two sets of wires running to the sender. On my sender the
>pipes from the Eber inlet / outlet face towards the drivers side (so we know
>we are both looking at it the same) Now the connector nearest the driver has
>a single wire to it, this comes from the voltage regulator so you should get
>a voltage which cycles between 10.5 volts and 13.5 or so when running. The
>second wire fastens to the earth on the sender (i suspect yours has
>previously snapped off hence your braid replacement)... this connector (on
>morph at least!) has two wires on it... one feeding the earth and the other
>hoping off to feed the earth on the fuel pump.
>
>Can't recall the colours other than the earth one being black...as in black
>not covered in cack like the rest.

Thanks - that should provide me with some hints!

>Still here... not 100 % happy with the alternator off Percy as the Ignition
>used to glow alot at low revs, I will try and get another today to replace
>Morphs broken one and then I'll reconsider tomorrow AM if it's not raining
>Cats and Dogs like it was last night here.

you could pop down to that auto electrical place down longton way and
get the bits to rebuild it. prob in stock.

Dave R <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny about:

> Sorry to hear that you have had all those problems but I do feel a bit
> better that there's someone else stuck at home!!
>
> Dave

Yep Mrs_D seems well happy too as I've just laid a new floor down in the
bathroom.

Alternator on order and should be here mid week... do I risk it on the
alternator thats on... H'mmm

I'll check the weather at 6 a.m.

Lee D

On or around Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:05:52 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>I'd like to say I'm sat at Malvern posting via my laptop... but I'm not :-(

we noticed :-(

I thought you might have had gremlins. Why didn't you just bring the disco?
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Austin Shackles <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz
funny about:
> On or around Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:05:52 +0100, "Lee_D"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
>> I'd like to say I'm sat at Malvern posting via my laptop... but I'm
>> not :-(
>
> we noticed :-(
>
> I thought you might have had gremlins. Why didn't you just bring the
> disco?

I'd got tickets from the 101 club... and lets just say there may/may not
have been a bit of moaning if we'd have turned up with the Disco given the
Caravan alone seems to be unwelcome I'd kind of got the impression that If
I'd turned up even with the Disco to offer support I'd have been as welcome
(at least on the 101 stand by certain moaners) as a fart in a space suit....
so I thought feck it. Besides which due to all this blowing up literally
last minute, no one claimed responsibility for the stand so I could not get
an official "yea or nay" as to if we could take the caravan, and if not on
the stand where it was supposed to go.

As it was Morph made his own protest. We did have the option of going just
for Saturday but the weather looked pants here and I wasn't about to risk a
wet weekend on the hard shoulder with a goosed alternator (one of many
spontaneous fault Morph developed).

Then when It came to Sunday I simply began to question that If I felt as
above a) I wouldn't enjoy it b) 180 miles round trip in a 101 in a day is
not funny.... I like my hearing c) It's just not worth the expense for 1 day
alone (not on LPG yet). We also considered popping down in the Laguna which
would have been much cheaper (for the day) but I was suitably ****ed off
that I couldn't even be arsed to get out of bed early enough to warrant a
worthwhile day of it.

That said EVERY event I've taken the caravan too I've left the Show officers
under no illusion I was taking a caravan (I still have a copy of the
origional form I submitted on the puter as I had to copy and paste a piccy
of Morph on to it... be dammed if I was sending a actual photo, the form
distinctly says "+ Caravan") yet it transpires that some whingers who DID
crash the stand at Eastnor and didn't even have tickets felt a caravan at
the back of the stand was not acceptable.

Some members of the Commitee have assured me the comments were not directed
at me but as future guidance, however as I'm the only person in my memory to
have ever taken a caravan, and having chatted to quite a few peeps about
Morph and the fact he'd towed a caravan to the shows and those peeps as club
members were likely to have read the comments I'd been made to look a royal
berk regardless.

So I was a little hacked off to say the least, not withstanding that nobody
had the courtousy (sp? - mild dyslexia & fecked spell checker) either at the
shows I attended or prior to an article in the club magazine to even mention
the Caravan being an issue, I read it the night before (1a.m.) the show.
Whats worse is I'd cut short my holiday to come back to fix Morph to attend
the frigging show. Dedication a little misdirected I think on this occasion,
though never again, my leave is too valuable to fritter away like that.

In summary I was angry (can you tell ? - I've replaced quite a few
expeletives) and Morph was broken regardless, not much I could do eitherway.

Sorry but you did ask ;-), I was and still feel somewhat cheated, as did the
Kids & Mrs D wasn't best impressed.

Still enough of my bitch'in how was it?

Lee D
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On or around Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:33:38 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>That said EVERY event I've taken the caravan too I've left the Show officers
>under no illusion I was taking a caravan (I still have a copy of the
>origional form I submitted on the puter as I had to copy and paste a piccy
>of Morph on to it... be dammed if I was sending a actual photo, the form
>distinctly says "+ Caravan") yet it transpires that some whingers who DID
>crash the stand at Eastnor and didn't even have tickets felt a caravan at
>the back of the stand was not acceptable.

Frankly, the 101FCC&R stand at this latest show was a non-starter and a
waste of however many passes they handed out. One chap turned up with a
camper-converted ambi (which looked more or less standard outside,
admittedly - but it has a different back end (if it's not in fact an ambi
but something else then I apologise); having found zero other 101s on
Saturday morning he sloped off to join the ex-military crowd. The only
other chap who used the space was Dave French who arrived Saturday night and
parked up on it on Sunday, with the 6x6, which presumably has the
rivet-counters dancing with apoplexy, after all, it represents a scrapped
101, since it's made from the pieces of 2...

Granted, Martyn would have come with Grumble had he been able, and you would
have come with Morph had he not thrown a hissy fit. But of ""proper"" 101s,
""as they left the factory"", nary a sign. There was a Vampire on the
ex-mil stand, I think, and probably a GS or two, and matey with his
ambi-camper.

So, for my money, I'd tow your van with morph and tell 'em to FRO if they
whinge, and if anyone comes and starts carping, suggest that maybe they get
off their arses and bring some ""proper"" 101s to display next time, if
they're so bothered, otherwise, STFU. And you can quote me above re the
waste of tickets: the show organisers allocated a nice big space for the
club stand which was substantially empty all through the show and the 2
blokes who did manage to get there had nonstandard vehicles. When Martyn
and whassisname with Tigger and the rest of "our" crowd turn up, at least
there's someone there and some decent presence, and it beats hell out of
100+ square metres of empty grass; and in my observation (perhaps I go to
the "wrong" shows?) by far the most obvious presence is the vehicles which
people have modified to their own needs and as such are not "standard".

If the rivet counters are that bothered, then they should make an effort to
get to the bloody show. If you'd managed to get there with yours and the
caravan, you'd have been the only representative on the stand throughout the
show.

says it all, AFAI'mC mate, at least you made the effort, even if it didn't
come off.

>So I was a little hacked off to say the least, not withstanding that nobody
>had the courtousy (sp? - mild dyslexia & fecked spell checker) either at the

courtesy...

>shows I attended or prior to an article in the club magazine to even mention
>the Caravan being an issue, I read it the night before (1a.m.) the show.

I bet you find the loudest whingers don't even own a 101, or if they do,
it's a half-restored non-runner and has been for the last 5 years.

>Sorry but you did ask ;-), I was and still feel somewhat cheated, as did the
>Kids & Mrs D wasn't best impressed.

by the previous events? don't blame you.

>Still enough of my bitch'in how was it?

good. see other post, in the Malvern thread.
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