Certainly looks like that servo's been dealing with brake fluid - it's done the usual great job as paint stripper. Yes, the servo should be dry inside. It's really just a vac chamber "helping your foot".

Not sure I'd call it "pernickety"... "Common sense", more like. m4s01000901

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No, definitely no harm, and quite possibly useful in the event of it going walkies and reappearing with bells or in bits.. <cough> Just the three, currently... Oh, yes, indeed. They're like a half-scale Landy made out of tinfoil. Wonderful fun. (and then there's... Welcome to Barbour4x4 )

On 2cvs, galvo chassis swaps are really common - even more so than Landies. NOBODY has the chassis number stamped into the chassis (some of which are now on their second or third car), and Citroen didn't bother on the originals, either. <shrug>

If you're going to be adding a few things, add a little fusebox, driven from a single +ve from the battery - it helps keep things tidy, and tidy is safe. Put any inline fuse as near to the battery +ve as possible, definitely before any potential chafing or sharp edges. If you take the wire...

Yep. It was first rolled forward one year as a "one-off" (1/1/73 -> 1/1/74), then it was confirmed to now officially be a rolling 40.

Or were the bits weighed in under the assumption nobody sane would want 'em?

You do know that 1974 stuff is tax free now, and 1975 will be tax free next April, then 1976 from April 2017 and so on, right?

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There's gotta be a hundred quid of bits there. Probably. On a good day. A VERY good day. Maybe.

...because they're forfeit when the missus finds out what you've bought...

If he's restoring it, he'll probably be putting new wheel cylinders on anyway, so the fact he's cut the old pipe off isn't a big deal. They're totally normal pipe flares and unions. A roll of (cupro-nickel, not copper - copper work-hardens) pipe, a flaring tool, and a bag of unions is all...

No, they're not restamping it. They're going to clean it up for you and help you find where it's been all along...

Even without a tyre on the bonnet, I tend to remove the bonnet for anything more than a fluid-level check. Apart from ease of acccess, I'm getting peed off with grease from the latch in my hair...

You'll be telling me next that they've developed roads wide enough for two cars to pass each other...

Streetlights? What are they? There's none of them within at least a 5 mile radius of here... (No gas pipes, either)

True... But the mechanical one is being spun all the time, whilst the electric one is only spun when needed - and is probably a lot more efficient. I've never seen an electric fan that didn't have an automatic (or manual) switch controlling it.

When you say they're both "hot" - is that as in "sticking your hand on it and squeeling then withdrawing it rapidly"? Or have you checked their actual temperature? Remember, the thermostat stays closed below 74 or 82degC - your hand is just going to say "OUCH!" to either of those, no finer...

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