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crossingpoint
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 Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:33 am Post subject: Using old cars everyday. Rover P4 TDi |
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Hi folks, this weekend I had to make a journey of 950 miles and was shocked that I only saw 2 pre-1973 cars on the road during the entire trip.
Maybe its high fuel prices keeping old cars at home, but heres my solution- http://www.frenchsfarm.co.uk/p4.html[/url] |
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Rick
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Location: UK
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roverdriver
Joined: 18 Oct 2008
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Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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If I had to drive a distance every day, then something like that would have appeal. As it is, I use my P4 as my 'driver' on every occasion that I need to go out. Yesterday I had to collect a load of roofing iron, so used the P4 with a trailer to get it.
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RobMoore
Joined: 16 Jan 2011
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Location: Peterlee
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I use my spit most days, it is my only car and I love it  |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: South Cheshire
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I use the Stag for my 90 Mile round trip into the office quite often, and have used the Morris  , but have to confess if its important I'm in the ofice, or a customer meeting I use my eurobox 
Dave |
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Calum
Joined: 07 Feb 2011
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Location: Midgley, W Yorks
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I have a 200Tdi in my Series III - fantastic engines. A friend has just done a similar conversion to you, but has put a 200Tdi into a P4 80, so replacing the 4 pot rather than the 6 pot in your case. I assume putting it into a 80 is an easier conversion?
He has also swapped the diff for a 3.54 ratio unit from a Disco/RRC to give it a bit longer legs over the standard 4.1 (I think his was a 4.1, rather than the 3.9)
Currently out in Europe doing some touring!
EDIT: Just noticed you have swapped the diff too, makes sense! |
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Nic Jarman
Joined: 05 Oct 2008
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Location: Stoke by Clare, Suffolk
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I use my Midget almost everyday and then sometimes I use my Morris 8. I did 10K in the Midget last year.
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Phil - Nottingham
Joined: 01 Jan 2008
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Location: Nottingham
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No choice but to use our classics everyday as that is all we have.
Today I used the S3 LR - wife used her Mk2 Mini Traveller (and yesterday as well) Yesterday I used the S2 LR and the P5B on Monday. Went to a rally on Sunday - 140 mile round trip - in the P2.
Yes we do spend a lot on petrol too!
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crossingpoint
Joined: 20 Jun 2011
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What a capable car the Midget is, and a great drive too. Our Mk2 Sprite has taken us to Spain 3 times (covering 2000+ miles each trip) and managed respectable speeds on motorway and mountain roads despite having the 946 engine. Fuel consumption was around 45 mpg.
The TDi does wonders for series landrovers, sadly not an option when I used them for work. Back then it was a Perkins 4203 and latterly the transit 2.5- good but noisy. Tim. |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| crossingpoint wrote: | What a capable car the Midget is, and a great drive too. Our Mk2 Sprite has taken us to Spain 3 times (covering 2000+ miles each trip) and managed respectable speeds on motorway and mountain roads despite having the 946 engine. Fuel consumption was around 45 mpg.
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Great endorsment for the A series engine; simple but robust...... the weak point on many classics I belive is the HT side of the ignition, you see many wonderfull cars, but with realy old HT leads, dizzy caps and presumably old points and condensers... fork out £25 a year on new HT components, service everything else and I believe many classics would be as reliable as any modern.
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Roger-hatchy
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
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Location: Tiptree, Essex
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£25 to renew HT side of ignition
Please let me know where you get yours
from to renew a full set on my 4 pot side valve, as suggested, would cost me just under £90, and thats before carriage
Mind you with the saving of road tax still worth carrying a full set of spare HT parts, for the peace of mind.
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xtriple
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| Surprisingly the MX has coil packs and new leads for it were £25. I was pleasantly surprised. |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| Roger-hatchy wrote: | £25 to renew HT side of ignition
Please let me know where you get yours
from to renew a full set on my 4 pot side valve, as suggested, would cost me just under £90, and thats before carriage
Mind you with the saving of road tax still worth carrying a full set of spare HT parts, for the peace of mind.
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Hi Roger
Should have been clearer! £25 is my approximate amortised cost on scheduled replacement of all the HT components, the point being to treat them as consumable items, not things that only get replaced only when they fail.
Cheers
Dave |
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Roger-hatchy
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
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Location: Tiptree, Essex
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And I was hoping for a cheaper outlet.   |
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crossingpoint
Joined: 20 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:32 am Post subject: a and b series ignition |
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A couple of months back the Luminition unit inside the distributor on my 'b' series engined car expired and I was reluctant to replace it with another due to cost, so I fitted one of the 'cheaper' type kits selling on ebay. They are sometimes as low as £12 (Britparts) mine set me back around 20 quid. Its done 3000 miles so far and all seems OK. Sadly the non lucas distributor cap bought from the same source was a very poor fit, though to be fair the company offer Lucas branded one for more money- perhaps a clue there.
I've had a similar ignition unit on a 'b' engined vehicle for a year- this has only covered about 2500 miles but so far so good.
Of course I need to cover a lot more distance to offer any worthwhile judgements, but with the very short life of most modern contact breakers sets I wouldn't really want to go back to using them. Tim |
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