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 Expert Posts: 4458    Location: Jelling, Denmark | Roger Red Hat - 28/3/2012 8:09 PM Seen this in the flesh! All though a little dirty, was in excellent condition! Was good to meet you mate! Sorry I had to rush off though! good meeting you to. It was nice to finally meet some one off here  let me know if you are ever in the neightborhood again. I think you are being to kind about the condition of the car though | ||
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 The TV star Metro GTa 1.1i Posts: 1061  Location: Early, Reading. | |||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | my heater box was leaking where the pipe in the picture is connected to the heater element, so spend half a day removing the four bolts and two screws, replacing the two o-rings and then connecting it all again, and may I say curse that austin-rover employee that decided to mount the plastic retaining bracket with two screws instead of two clips. those two screws is virtually impossible to undo and then redo without removing anything from under the dash  on the bright side, my latest profiling of the needle has brought the mpg up to 37 from 29. still some profiling to do, just worried about taking to much off the needle or in the wrong place.   Edited by DotMatrix 4/12/2012 11:52 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | this is a picture of the sparkplug I changes. it had gren-ish residue on the tip, so I suspected head gasket failure. but it turns out that sometimes you are allowed to get pleasantly surprised, so it turned out it didn't have head gasket failure and its running fine again now 36.5 mpg to those interested in that sort of thing  Edited by DotMatrix 4/12/2012 11:54 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | back from a weeks vacation in sweeden in this lovely car. 2000km and it only used 5 liters of oil as you can see going on vacation with the girlfriend, two children and the bags that require is no problem in a metro     Edited by DotMatrix 12/12/2012 9:04 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | so the lovely little car started to run badly and on 3 cylinders so I took the head off this weekend and found a burned valve (same valve as last time). When we started to cut the valve seat the valve seat had a "shadow" that couldn't be removed and the seat started to turn in the cylinder head so off I went to my pile of may parts where I found another 1275 cylinder head with good seats and valves that didn't leak, a head gasket was bought from the very nice owner of nordisk morris minor lager (nordic morris minor supplier and producer of many minor parts), the head gasket was fitted along with the cylinder head and everything was adjusted and the car started up nicely on 4 cylinders again after this I fitted a ABY needle I had bought which after a bit of adjustment made the car run nicer than with the needle I was previously running. So all in all very few problems with this lovely car at the moment   Edited by DotMatrix 12/12/2012 9:02 PM | ||
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 Admin Posts: 1576  Location: Burnley, Lancs | Nice work, I'm impressed by your commitment to this car, most people wouldn't bother so keep it up! | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Pietaster - 31/7/2012 1:23 AM Nice work, I'm impressed by your commitment to this car, most people wouldn't bother so keep it up! thanks ofcourse im keeping it going even though the engine is in desperate need of a rebore etc. Since my gti needs an engine rebuild this is my daily. Besides with all the welding done on it earlier this year the shell is completely solid. With the new needle the car is now up to 40 mpg and it is definetely better than the last, but far from perfect, but perhaps this also has something to do with the pistonrings and engine being worn out. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | And its now a 2.5-3 cylinder again But at least it not cylinder 2 this time. Wonder when i will get time to fix this. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | just a small update. adjusting valve clearances fixed this. they had become to tight | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Not much to update, but had a bit of fun this weekend fitting a accelerator pedal (yes I know its for a mini) also made a shiny new wheel and touched up the exhaust    Edited by DotMatrix 12/12/2012 9:05 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Cleaned the filter inside the carb the other day which made it run very nicely right up until it decided to loose compression and use a lot of oil on cylinder 4 now as well as cylinder 2 as it did previously. here is a picture of the bottom of the carb. the filter is bellow brass bolt.  Edited by DotMatrix 12/12/2012 9:07 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | so decided to find out why this car had become a 3 cylinder, so removed the cylinderhead and this is how it looked then I found an other valve, cut two valves and their seats and lapped all 8 valves in again and assembled it all up.      | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | parked the A-series up friday at 4 pm in the underground carpark under the building where I live, and then saturday morning when I came down to take the car up to my parents place to work on the rover 400 and the car looked like this!!! the picture is taken a couple of km away from where I live. it seriously sucks to come down to this! and they haven't even taken anything worth taking! broken the parcelshelf bracket, looked at all my stuff in the toolbox, emptied my glove-compartment on the floor. looks like they first tried the two locks, but couldn't figure that out, then tore one of the door handles off, dented both doors and then ended up pushing a screwdriver in next to the window to make it shatter. The things I can tell is missing is a small crowbar, a long yellow screwdriver, a pair of duckhams sunglases, and an old headset for a nokia that doesn't work. neither of which is worth any money at all!! so after the coldest drive in history (1.5 hours with a missing window, wore gloves and a hat though). so instead of working on the rover 400 I started my saturday fixing this crap! also fixed a total collapsed wheel bearing on the right hand front side. the one you see on the floor is the used one I took off. The missing ball-joint was the only good one as the bottom ball-joint was worn out. but the good top ball-joint on the used hub with bearings I found and put that on the car and assembled it all up again.      Edited by DotMatrix 2/12/2012 9:23 PM | ||
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 Elite Veteran Posts: 978 Location: Walderslade, Kent | Oh man sorry to see that, what a bunch of sorry losers! glad you got it fixed and hope you don't get too worked up about it, very annoying though. Somebodys pride and joy to Nice work on the bearings and on the Rover 400 | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | |||
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'88 MG METRO 1300 Posts: 1117 Location: Dudley, Midlands | |||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | we had some snow here in denmark this sunday  Edited by DotMatrix 18/12/2012 7:12 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | if anyone needs salt for their eggs you can have some here  | ||
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 Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | Looks like you could do with fitting some head lamp washers into those light recesses. Just add some early K series bonnet washers [sinlge jet so less pressure required] into the front wash system.  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | 111Sli - 19/12/2012 1:20 PM Looks like you could do with fitting some head lamp washers into those light recesses. Just add some early K series bonnet washers [sinlge jet so less pressure required] into the front wash system. yes. I could need something like that | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | The engine which the car was made is nearing its serviceable life at only 85000 miles with an astronomical oil consumption of 1.5 liters per 100 km. As I need two cars very soon (second one for the girl friend) I went into my room of many things and found a mini 998 engine I had. Its a 70'ies non A-plus engine with a MD256 cam 9:1 compression pistons small valve 998 head 3.44:1 final drive and a lucas 45D4 distributor. I took the engine apart, inspected all the parts and found that it was in really good condition, almost didn't need anything, only gaskets and stuff like that, no pistons rings or bearings. I will continue to clean parts and start to assemble next weekend      Edited by DotMatrix 23/2/2013 11:08 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | did a lot of cleaning up this weekend, honed the cylinders, refitted the pistons and crank, mounted the short block ontop of the gearbox and changed some gaskets that was due.   | ||
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