I have been convinced today that I must start a thread on the R10.
It will be a slow build, and nothing fancy such as a Resto or Rebuild. It will be just stuff I do to up grade the car to where I want it. And I am not going to give a frame work as to what I want to do. It will be spur of the moment, and as I have time to do things.
OK, the car. The papers say it is a '68 R10 with 1108 motor in it. It came from the east, brought over by a friend, who thought he wanted to get into classic cars. I feel he had been done by the seller, as he was told it had been resprayed and was in good condition, and had a very recent warrant of fitness. Running wise it went well, needed a proper service and tune up. But it was an oil leak on wheels, it had stone age tyres on it, that were very cracked on the sidewalls and treads. It ran very warm and did not like long uphills. Pulled to one side, and even worse when you got the brakes to work, and one front and one rear calipers and the master cylinder were leaking. So it needed quite a bit of work to get a road worthy for registration in WA.
Motor and gearbox came out and and all the brakes were stripped off and parts were bought, full set of seals rear and front wheel bearings. When I took the boots off the side shaft tubes a mug of oil fell out of each side. So it was all cleaned and serviced and painted and re-assembled. A rad recore was done as it was very blocked. I also pulled the fuel tank as everything was out and had it dipped and cleaned. New top bushes in the front suspension. So in reality it was a mechanical re-build. When I got it running and went for a test, I was most impressed with the change in character. It was a very nice car to drive, and it went over the pits whit a pass first time, and the guys were most impressed, in particular not a drop of oil.
My friend drove the car a bit, but I think it was not what he wanted and the outside did look a bit rough. And I think he fell out of love with it. Also he had not put it on club plates so it cost a lot each payment time for a car that was sitting. So it was put up for sale, I made a reasonable offer which was refused, so I left it alone. Then it came up for sale again at reduced price, and after 2 weeks I sent him a text reminding him of my offer, he came back and accepted, and we did the deal. and so I have a classic car that is on the road, and Saturdays and Sundays are set aside in the workshop to do my Grenouille Verte.
And so it has started!!!!
Ray
It will be a slow build, and nothing fancy such as a Resto or Rebuild. It will be just stuff I do to up grade the car to where I want it. And I am not going to give a frame work as to what I want to do. It will be spur of the moment, and as I have time to do things.
OK, the car. The papers say it is a '68 R10 with 1108 motor in it. It came from the east, brought over by a friend, who thought he wanted to get into classic cars. I feel he had been done by the seller, as he was told it had been resprayed and was in good condition, and had a very recent warrant of fitness. Running wise it went well, needed a proper service and tune up. But it was an oil leak on wheels, it had stone age tyres on it, that were very cracked on the sidewalls and treads. It ran very warm and did not like long uphills. Pulled to one side, and even worse when you got the brakes to work, and one front and one rear calipers and the master cylinder were leaking. So it needed quite a bit of work to get a road worthy for registration in WA.
Motor and gearbox came out and and all the brakes were stripped off and parts were bought, full set of seals rear and front wheel bearings. When I took the boots off the side shaft tubes a mug of oil fell out of each side. So it was all cleaned and serviced and painted and re-assembled. A rad recore was done as it was very blocked. I also pulled the fuel tank as everything was out and had it dipped and cleaned. New top bushes in the front suspension. So in reality it was a mechanical re-build. When I got it running and went for a test, I was most impressed with the change in character. It was a very nice car to drive, and it went over the pits whit a pass first time, and the guys were most impressed, in particular not a drop of oil.
My friend drove the car a bit, but I think it was not what he wanted and the outside did look a bit rough. And I think he fell out of love with it. Also he had not put it on club plates so it cost a lot each payment time for a car that was sitting. So it was put up for sale, I made a reasonable offer which was refused, so I left it alone. Then it came up for sale again at reduced price, and after 2 weeks I sent him a text reminding him of my offer, he came back and accepted, and we did the deal. and so I have a classic car that is on the road, and Saturdays and Sundays are set aside in the workshop to do my Grenouille Verte.
And so it has started!!!!
Ray
