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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas: What joy!
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas. 1969 Triumph 2000 Mk2 saloon/ 1977 Triumph TR7 16V rally car/ 1982 Triumph TR7 DHC/ 1992 Mini Mayfair (Mrs R's)/ 1992 Rover 214i. Monday, June 08, 2015. So with a day off work and a load of parts from Chris Witor today was a good day to crack on with PMW. Unbolting the rear trailing arm suspension bushes went better than feared so it was straight on to the usual method of setting fire to the old bushes to help remove them. It looks like I'll be doing a complete rebui...
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas: July 2015
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas. 1969 Triumph 2000 Mk2 saloon/ 1977 Triumph TR7 16V rally car/ 1982 Triumph TR7 DHC/ 1992 Mini Mayfair (Mrs R's)/ 1992 Rover 214i. Sunday, July 05, 2015. I now hate wheel cylinder circlips. What a pain and I realise many people have the knack of fitting them but I certainly don't, they are the creation of the devil as far as I am concerned. Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Followed by a search on ebay and I found a company called Mini Mine who sell this tool. Simple tem...
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas: October 2014
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas. 1969 Triumph 2000 Mk2 saloon/ 1977 Triumph TR7 16V rally car/ 1982 Triumph TR7 DHC/ 1992 Mini Mayfair (Mrs R's)/ 1992 Rover 214i. Saturday, October 25, 2014. Follow up bits and pieces. After last week's efforts I ordered up some bits and pieces from Chris Witor. Carb float chamber gasket, manifold bridging piece and second hand clock. Then the front carb float chamber gasket had split so the 45p replacement fixed that! If nothing goes wrong (! So the guys came over a...
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas: December 2014
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas. 1969 Triumph 2000 Mk2 saloon/ 1977 Triumph TR7 16V rally car/ 1982 Triumph TR7 DHC/ 1992 Mini Mayfair (Mrs R's)/ 1992 Rover 214i. Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Where's the nearest scrapyard? Just about had enough of this car now. Took it out for a run to check out the various issues. Clutch worked fine - so that's a good thing but I haven't yet checked the integrity of the slave cylinder couplings. What joy. More faffing about there then. Finally to cap it all off when...
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas: A bit one sided
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas. 1969 Triumph 2000 Mk2 saloon/ 1977 Triumph TR7 16V rally car/ 1982 Triumph TR7 DHC/ 1992 Mini Mayfair (Mrs R's)/ 1992 Rover 214i. Saturday, June 13, 2015. A bit one sided. So today 6 hours of work on the 2000. I really must be a slow worker! Here's my first attempt today to get the first bush in the trailing arm using threaded rod, washers and an old socket. Not succesful again as the bush was distorting but not going in. This method worked for the second bush too :-).
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas: 10CR Prep
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas. 1969 Triumph 2000 Mk2 saloon/ 1977 Triumph TR7 16V rally car/ 1982 Triumph TR7 DHC/ 1992 Mini Mayfair (Mrs R's)/ 1992 Rover 214i. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Having got PMW into a position where it seems to want to play ball I am now moving on to general preparation for Club Triumph's 10 Countries Run. Here's PMW up on axle stands for those checks plus I could see that I think there is no more clutch fluid leaking from the slave cylinder so that's a relief. I have not done...
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas: Show and struggle
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas. 1969 Triumph 2000 Mk2 saloon/ 1977 Triumph TR7 16V rally car/ 1982 Triumph TR7 DHC/ 1992 Mini Mayfair (Mrs R's)/ 1992 Rover 214i. Sunday, June 21, 2015. A Triumph weekend with Saturday at Woodvale Show in Southport. First was meeting up with 4 mates from Club Triumph Pendle and Pennine at Darwen Services on the M65. As you can see, I had the top down on UNJ but the weather was typical stuff! Then Sunday it was back to PMW. I did get the offside rear trailing arm bolt...
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas: August 2014
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas. 1969 Triumph 2000 Mk2 saloon/ 1977 Triumph TR7 16V rally car/ 1982 Triumph TR7 DHC/ 1992 Mini Mayfair (Mrs R's)/ 1992 Rover 214i. Sunday, August 31, 2014. I have been having all sorts of problems getting PMW to run anything like right, so much so that I need a recovery truck to get me home recently. The engine was easy enough to turn when I assembled it and it starts easily so I don't think there's an issue there. So, re set it to 8 BTDC and went for a run. How to ke...
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas: Special tool!
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Martin Randle's Car Collection sagas. 1969 Triumph 2000 Mk2 saloon/ 1977 Triumph TR7 16V rally car/ 1982 Triumph TR7 DHC/ 1992 Mini Mayfair (Mrs R's)/ 1992 Rover 214i. Sunday, July 05, 2015. I now hate wheel cylinder circlips. What a pain and I realise many people have the knack of fitting them but I certainly don't, they are the creation of the devil as far as I am concerned. Https:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Followed by a search on ebay and I found a company called Mini Mine who sell this tool. Simple tem...