To Stag or Not To Stag

I've owned a stag for about a year and a half now (Mimosa yellow, manual overdrive, Mk 1 1/2, tax-free!) It's never let me down, no issues at all, doesn't use any coolant and drives perfectly. Bodywork is pretty good, but it could do with a respray to make it perfect, and a new hood which I have but haven't had the time or knowledge to attempt to fit. Mine runs just under half on the temp gauge regardless of outside air temp or load or speed. I've removed the original stromberg carbs and replaced them with SU carbs but retained the original air filter and elbows - so much better. It had a new stainless system when I bought it and I've stripped back the whole of the floorpan and underside, treated the metal then primed and chassis-black, then non-setting waxoyl underseal on all seams and vulnerable areas including the inner arches. Now that was a messy job!! I've been toying with the idea of selling it, but at the moment I'm undecided. Badger.

:-) Well it's unusual at least :-) My parents used to have the normal Visa and that was odd enough.

I seem to remember it claimed very good fuel consumption figures which it achieved (at least in part) by being very tall geared for motorway journeys. The problem was that they'd kinda fitted five-speed ratios to a four speed box: effectively 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th - thrash the car in 2nd gear, then change to "third" and find the revs far too low - a nightmare when pulling onto crowded motorways...

Mark

Welcome to the club :-) May you have as much fun with it as we've had (and are still having) with ours.

Mark

There is a gap, granted. Never had it die when changing up, though. And it is nice to be able to grab third for overtaking at 60-70.

Jim

Accompanied by the sound of a chisel on slate adrian snipped-for-privacy@postmaster.co.uk, managed to produce the following words of wisdom

I do hope you weren't referring to me with the bloke in pub comment!

Well, have fun with it. Don't forget to put Rimmer Bros on your speed-dial.

No problem.

The water pump isn't in the conventional place - it's on top of the block.

I *think* he meant the side of the pump housing, that's what I took it as, anyway. Badger.

I think you are being a tad pedantic there Dave, now if we had been talking about the Imp engine....

So where does it leak from?

No

Out of the *top* of the block perhaps?!...

Pump V _O_ _O_

Yup. Citroen Visa Decapotable - a 4-door convertable (although retaining the door frames) based on the Citroen Visa and using (IIRC) the

Wonder how many Talbot Samba cabrios are left...

Andrew Robert Breen ( snipped-for-privacy@aber.ac.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Indeed, the 1124 tappet-rattler. Shame they never put either of the desirable engines - the 1600 GTi or the 652 two-pot in the Decap. I s'pose a two-pot Wheezer decap would just be too close to being a 2cv-wannabe.

Too many?

The whole car was a Peugeot 104 bar the external panel-work, it was an insult to call it a Citroen!

:Jerry: ( snipped-for-privacy@INVALID.INVALID) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Then there was the LNA...

...Saxo, Synergie, C8, all the recent vans... and let's not even go NEAR the C-Crosser...

A bit more than the external panel-work, but I think it was the first shared platform (excluding the LN/LNA, which was just rebadged) and indeed much decried because of that.

It has a sight more Citroen character than a Saxo or a Xsara, though.

Pug 104 platform, pretty much, except for the 650 which was different ahead of the front bulkhead (slightly longer wheelbase, for one thing). What was distinctively Cit was the suspension settings - which were much more comfortable than the contemporary Pugs - and (in the 650 at least) steering geometry. The 650 had much nicer steering than any strutted supermini had any right to..

Yes, but to be fair so would a fungal infection... :(

Anywhere it feels like. ;-) I just wanted to help anyone who didn't know the engine find the pump as it should certainly be checked for leaks.