vroom vroom burble :)

Wooohoo!

I got the 101 started today!

I love it when you can leave a car sitting for months and they fire up
almost instantly!

Still got a lot to do, and I have to actually finish the wiring off
yet (no dash yet just lots of spagetti!), but it feels good to have
some movement! (its in a different parking spot now)

I now need to rest my arms as they had forgotten how hard it is
manouvering 101s at low speed (on square semi-flat bargrips too!)

On or around Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:49:53 +0100, Tom Woods
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Wooohoo!
>
>I got the 101 started today!
>
>I love it when you can leave a car sitting for months and they fire up
>almost instantly!

The Ford V6 did that. standing for year, more or less. new battery, fillup
the oil and water, turn the key and almost immediate fire-up. didn't even
have to put fresh petrol in it. restores yer faith in summat-or-other, when
that happens.


best one I ever saw was a lorry-based crane with a leyland diesel (670 or
such, probably, or maybe a 760). standing for about 3 years and I don't
think it actually did as much as one revolution on the starter before it
fired up on idle.

Mind, we had one wagon there which *always* needed aerostart, even though it
was used regularly.



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On 2006-08-19, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Ford V6 did that. standing for year, more or less. new battery, fillup
> the oil and water, turn the key and almost immediate fire-up. didn't even
> have to put fresh petrol in it. restores yer faith in summat-or-other, when
> that happens.

My landy's a bit like that, it's not been stood for a year but it's
had the same battery in it for 5 years at least, it was in there when
I bought it. It rarely gets used (maybe once a month) but even in the
depths of winter when there's ice everywhere, it takes a little less
than a second to fire up without needing glowplugs. My audi takes 2
seconds to fire and has gone through two batteries in the 3 years I've
had it despite having a similar-sized battery. The pinz can take 10
seconds to fire if the engine's hot on a hot day (known problem on
that vintage).

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On or around Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:59:30 +0100, Ian Rawlings
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On 2006-08-19, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The Ford V6 did that. standing for year, more or less. new battery, fillup
>> the oil and water, turn the key and almost immediate fire-up. didn't even
>> have to put fresh petrol in it. restores yer faith in summat-or-other, when
>> that happens.
>
>My landy's a bit like that, it's not been stood for a year but it's
>had the same battery in it for 5 years at least, it was in there when
>I bought it. It rarely gets used (maybe once a month) but even in the
>depths of winter when there's ice everywhere, it takes a little less
>than a second to fire up without needing glowplugs. My audi takes 2
>seconds to fire and has gone through two batteries in the 3 years I've
>had it despite having a similar-sized battery. The pinz can take 10
>seconds to fire if the engine's hot on a hot day (known problem on
>that vintage).

the SIII takes a bit of winding on occasions. I reckon it's fuel
vapourising somewhere. Mind, I could do with hunting a fuel pump up at
Malvern - the bugger wouldn't pump after it'd been standing for a while
(couple of months) and I had to pull it off and faff with it for a while to
get it going again. Sticky valve, seemed like - it's one of those PITA ones
that won't come apart though.

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"Ian Rawlings" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 2006-08-19, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The Ford V6 did that. standing for year, more or less. new battery,
>> fillup
>> the oil and water, turn the key and almost immediate fire-up. didn't
>> even
>> have to put fresh petrol in it. restores yer faith in summat-or-other,
>> when
>> that happens.
>
> My landy's a bit like that, it's not been stood for a year but it's
> had the same battery in it for 5 years at least, it was in there when
> I bought it. It rarely gets used (maybe once a month) but even in the
> depths of winter when there's ice everywhere, it takes a little less
> than a second to fire up without needing glowplugs. My audi takes 2
> seconds to fire and has gone through two batteries in the 3 years I've
> had it despite having a similar-sized battery. The pinz can take 10
> seconds to fire if the engine's hot on a hot day (known problem on
> that vintage).
>
> --
> Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!

When i was an apprentice all them years ago me and the boss went to collect
a humber that had been stood 15 years put a battery on it stuck a gallon of
petrol in the tank disconected the coil cranked it till we had some oil
pressure re connected the coil and started it first flick and drove it out
of the barn it was stored in

On 2006-08-20, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

> the SIII takes a bit of winding on occasions. I reckon it's fuel
> vapourising somewhere.

That's apparently the pinz's problem, instruction manual says put
filter intake in summer mode and hold the accelerator down when
cranking, it starts reasonably quickly, about 5-10 seconds or so which
seems like an age when you're in a hurry! With the weedy 35 amp
alternator and two honking great big batteries it might be an idea for
me to sort out some kind of charge monitoring system. Mind you it's
not like we have hot (30C) temperatures very often!

> Mind, I could do with hunting a fuel pump up at Malvern - the bugger
> wouldn't pump after it'd been standing for a while (couple of
> months) and I had to pull it off and faff with it for a while to get
> it going again. Sticky valve, seemed like - it's one of those PITA
> ones that won't come apart though.

I'm sure that if you whack it hard enough with a hammer, it'll either
unstick the valve or come apart ;-)

I think I mentioned that one chap I know (Rory Manton, he posts here
from time to time) repaired his fuel pump body in France by soaking a
baugette in araldite to replace a piece of pump body that had broken
off, worked a treat and was still on there a month or so afterwards.
I saw it recently-ish at a local military show, still looking almost
edible.

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