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JR FLYWHEEL
Joined: 25 Mar 2008
Posts: 77
Location: Hornchurch Essex
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| 1stpop wrote: | | Not sure how much help I can be but I'm currently working on my 103E. Having lots of fun and a lot of head scratching and possibly a little swearing as well (when kids are out of earshot). But I do have a good list of suppliers for spares and stuff like that if its any help? My next job is re-wiring for some reason the regulator has not been connected up as it is in the workshop book - only 1 wire in the A post and none in the A1? hope this will improve its running? |
Hello 1st pop, Ive just been down to my garage and took these snaps of my own pop-1955 103E-converted to 12volt.
I would be interested to hear about your list of suppliers
hope these help
regards flywheel ( john)
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Greg
Joined: 03 Dec 2007
Posts: 445
Location: Dreamland Margate
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Rick wrote: | Hi Greg, I soaked the rope pieces for a day or so prior to fitting them, the main gaskets themselves dont need soaking if I remember right, and it didn't seem to leak when all back together (I tightened up all the sump mounting bolts a little at a time so as not to risk warping the sump mounting faces). I used a dab of grease here n there to hold the gasket in position while offering the sump up to the bottom of the engine.
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Cheers Rick, I shall give that a go, I've fitted one but am not happy with it,...Round 2  |
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Old-Nail
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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JR your Pop pics are making me want another one! 
Do you have any pic's of the car from other angles? She looks superb. |
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Uncle Joe
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Flywheel, theres one thing I dont understand. The regulator looks to be connected wrongly. Or are you not running a dynamo? |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Uncle Joe wrote: | | Flywheel, theres one thing I dont understand. The regulator looks to be connected wrongly. Or are you not running a dynamo? |
You are right UJ there is no connection on the "D" post which is where the main dynamo output would be.
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Greg
Joined: 03 Dec 2007
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Location: Dreamland Margate
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:11 am Post subject: |
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Didn't have much time earlier but I really like your Popular J.R, wish I had a Garage for mine 
As Old Nail says, have you got any more pictures? Very Tidy 
All the Best, Greg |
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Uncle Joe
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:48 am Post subject: |
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UK, thanks for confirming my suspicions. I wonder how it charges?
I do remember someone posting with battery problems. Could it be Flywheel, I wonder? I cant find the post... |
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JR FLYWHEEL
Joined: 25 Mar 2008
Posts: 77
Location: Hornchurch Essex
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| Uncle Joe wrote: | UK, thanks for confirming my suspicions. I wonder how it charges?
I do remember someone posting with battery problems. Could it be Flywheel, I wonder? I cant find the post... |
Hello you guys,
Thanks to you all for posting, I'll put some more pictures on here when i get the old boy off his stands and running about.
I guess i was very lucky when i bought this car, i was in the right place at the right time. ( and the wife liked it too) The chappie who owned it before me, had lost interest, and i think the car had been laid up for nearly four years unused. It was running: but in a dirty state.
After 16 years of my ownership Ive done some work on him, Rebuilt engine, exhaust, new boot lid, wheel bearings, and then just tidying and cleaning up the paintwork and interior.
I do remember one heart stopping moment, when i took him for mot one year. I left him with the mot tester, but when i returned to the garage this chap admitted he'd left the ignition switched on to test the trafficators, and the coil had exploded. ( i never went there for mot again.)
Ive just nipped down to the garage to have another look at my reg box, and yes the D wire is connected, and im running a dynamo. ive taken another pic hope it comes out ok. Ive never had any trouble with charging.( fingers and toes crossed now ive said that)-Had me going there uncle joe...LOL.
Pic shows me pointing to wire connected to the "D"
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Regards to all
flywheel-(john) |
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Uncle Joe
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| You had me going for a minute...I was beginning to think that you had a one wire alternator set up or something with a totally new way of being wired in! |
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Job-Rated
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:19 am Post subject: |
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What a fantastic little car you have there, John. She's a beauty!
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JR FLYWHEEL
Joined: 25 Mar 2008
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Location: Hornchurch Essex
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| Uncle Joe wrote: | | You had me going for a minute...I was beginning to think that you had a one wire alternator set up or something with a totally new way of being wired in! |
Cheers uncle joe. |
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JR FLYWHEEL
Joined: 25 Mar 2008
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Location: Hornchurch Essex
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:05 am Post subject: |
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| Job-Rated wrote: | | What a fantastic little car you have there, John. She's a beauty! |
Thanks JR,
I think i was lucky, The other owner just did'nt want it any more and, it was just sitting about in a garage unused. ( what a find for me)
Regards, thanks for posting
flywheel(john) |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| JR FLYWHEEL wrote: |
Pic shows me pointing to wire connected to the "D" |
Ahh yes I see now, its those sneaky folk at Lucas putting the extra terminals in at 90 degree's on the later RB106's
Lovely looking motor
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ukdave2002
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| 1stpop wrote: | | My next job is re-wiring for some reason the regulator has not been connected up as it is in the workshop book - only 1 wire in the A post and none in the A1? hope this will improve its running? |
Hi 1stpop
The control box has several fuctions, it does act as a regulator , but also protects the dynamo by compensating for load,this is why you have the "A" conection which goes to the battery and the "A1" connections which serve the "accesories" lighting etc. There is no advantage in having all circuits fed from the "A" terminal. Some control box's have more than one "A1" with fused protection for different loads.
| Uncle Joe wrote: | Personally I used to connect the F and D terminals on the regulator together. That gave full dynamo output to the battery all the time. Of course, when I forgot and left them on too long, it did have a tendency to desroy the battery.... 
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What you have created here UJ is known as a "Shunt DC Dynamo" the dynamo voltage and current would just keep going up until either the battery failed, the wiring burned out or the dynamo field coil failed 
We have to experiment with these things to see what happens |
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1stpop
Joined: 03 Dec 2007
Posts: 109
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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I think I've worked out the problem with the wiring - It looks as though it has been wired up for a three brush generator and it only has a two brush one on (this is the correct one for the car) - after looking through a couple of pop owners hand books I found a couple with the wrong wiring diagram printed but luckily mine has a note added later by the publisher about the change in generator..
Gonna put it straight and and possibly add a couple of fuses too - just to be safe |
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