Master Brake cilinder!
Kees Oudesluijs
Op 24-5-2017 om 23:04 schreef Simon Lachlan:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been to Paris and, touch wood, was able to help my nephew get
> his BJ8 up and running. In order to arm myself with all the
> information that I could get hold of I?ve asked you guys quite a few
> questions and been pretty stingy with the thanks and feedback.
>
> So:-
>
> 1. When we picked the car up at the port, it was hard to start ?
> unsurprisingly, I thought ? and it didn?t run very well. But it
> made the 100+ miles to Paris, only really baulking when traffic
> slowed us down and the revs dropped.
> 2. Subsequent to that, the car ran badly??.erratic firing and then
> flat battery.
> 3. My nephew suspected the battery and bought a new one. That went
> flat and the erratic behaviour continued.
> 4. I suspected the generator and inquired of the list regarding symptoms.
> 5. I also got my nephew to run the standard ?Does the generator
> work?? tests. It failed them all.
> 6. About this time, the front carb started to leak??nothing much, but
> the behaviour and location of the leak pointed me away from the
> float bowl.
>
> Some background, maybe some clues. We?ll never know:- there are often
> a stack of bits that come with an old car. In this case, the stack was
> pretty big and, amongst other things, was a new Indian RB340 Lucas
> lookalike Voltage Regulator/Control Box. The car was fitted with
> another Indian RB340 lookalike which looked brand new. That box was
> wearing the original Lucas?s lid.
>
> There were also a number of carb bits??.seals, jets and so forth. Plus
> a few drum brake rubber parts. Now, hindsight is a lovely thing, but ?
> retrospectively ? one wonders.
>
> 7. I brought a new generator over from the UK plus other parts and
> tools. Not easy these days what with security at the airports etcetc.
> 8. We fitted the new generator. The car started, ?no charge? red
> light went off and engine ran well for, say, a minute. Then, smoke
> from insulation on large terminal on generator. I suspected
> polarity and/or control box.
> 9. However, the attempts at starting seemed to have turned the front
> carb?s leak into a flood.
> 10. More questions to you guys. I suspected the diaphragm?..the sheer
> volume and location of the leak pushed me in that direction and
> you all agreed.
> 11. So, a two carb rebuild kit was ordered from the UK and, quite
> miraculously, turned up within 18 hours.
> 12. Removed the carbs?..what joy.
> 13. The front diaphragm was dry and split around the centre. The rear
> wasn?t much better, but it wasn?t leaking yet.
> 14. Curiously, or so I thought, the carbs showed some signs of being
> rebuilt, but rather inconsistently and not the same parts in both
> carbs. But why do the little bits and not the big one, the ?Usual
> Culprits???
> 15. Anyhow, the rebuild worked and the drip/flood stopped.
> 16. Back, finally, to the generator?..not previously having liked the
> mix of frying generator and spouting petrol.
> 17. We had no luck initially but, after tidying up all the ignition
> wiring and polarizing the generator we proceeded.
> 18. The generator still worked. It passed the ?Motor test?.
> 19. The wiring to the, just in case polarized, Control Box was OK. So?..
> 20. We swapped the control boxes and hey presto?..no red light, no
> smoke, no erratic running. ie, everything they say about those
> boxes is true.
> 21. Thereafter, the car?s run well. Starts first time and runs
> strongly once it?s warmed up.
>
> And, if you?ve read this far, thank you all very much for your help.
>
> Regarding not having a manual, I think that, between us, my nephew and
> I are virtually into double figures. I do the research, read the
> manuals, make up my mind and then, before I make a catastrophic
> cock-up, I ask the gurus. Can save a lot of time and, in this case, an
> airfare or two!
>
> Now?? now, I think it?s leaking brake fluid somewhere. In the servo
> somewhere is my guess. But the car?s in Paris; my nephew?s in the
> South of France and I?m in the UK. So, we?ll have to wait and see. It
> may be nothing, but I wonder if the car, having sat around idle for
> ages, may have dried out any number of seals and God knows what. We?ll
> see?..
>
> Simon
>
>
>
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