Yes I've seen your messages. I don't know what to suggest, but you have my sympathies, the v8's can be an absolute bitch when they won't run right. I eventually replaced the coil, dizzy, leads, and recon'd the carbs. And it still wouldn't run right. Then I fiddled around endlessly with the timing and now it runs very well.
Still won't start properly when it's hot though, have to crank it like crazy to get it to fire.
Alex
No, the speedo drive is on the rear propshaft, just behind the transmission brake. It is therefore unaffected by things like overdrives or high/low transfer.
It's not advisable. The O/D shouldn't really be used in 1st or 2nd as the amount of torque is too high and can result in serious damage to the overdrive. (including blowing the casing apart). Although de-accelerating with the overdrive engaged won't harm it, if you forget to dis-engage it and drop the clutch in 2nd to accellerate you could have problems.
I personally use mine in conjunction with 3rd and 4th to give me an "intermediate" gear between 3rd and 4th, thus turning a 4spd gearbox into a 6 speed one. 3rd +O/D is also useful for that little extra oomph going up hills.
Mind you, it really comes into it's own when you can cruise around at
30mph in 4th+O/D, and glide round the roundabouts at 15mph, and accellerate away without changing down. The benifits of having a six-pot under the bonnet.Alex
In article , Alex writes
Interesting point. My 4 pot petrol 109 struggled with hills, the best I managed was dropping into 2nd and flooring it, although I got the impression it used a gallon per hill when doing so.
My 4pot 109 is particularly sluggish up hills, sometimes I have to use first gear when I've got a car on the hook at the back. Thats why I like my six-pot. Mind you, I think the head gasket is about to go on it.
Alex
It depends what sort of speed humps youre going over. The 101 is good for those little speed 'bumps' (the ones that only cover most of one lane, not the whole width of the road), since the track of the 101 is wider than the bumps themselves :).
I didnt think that my ambi was that bad at normal speed humps either, but i drive over so many speed bumps each day in my car that perhaps im just used to them now! :)
Actually I have been in touch with a guy who has a set of sticks for me from a series 2 he is dismantling. I've also asked him about the freewheeling hubs and he's got some sets of those too. Can ask him what he's got when he phones me later today. Ours hubs are AVM, imported here by Superwinch I believe. Don't know if the splines are different. Ours is a 1975, and Bruce is going to count them later just to make sure we get the right ones for it.
Yep, mine are AVM too. I had to drill out the allen bolt heads to get them off last year, and 2 of the holes were damaged when doing it.Despite filling the holes with gasket goo etc, one side is leaking oil. All I need is the aluminium end - the bit with the 2wd/4wd selector, with the 6 small holes around the outer edge holding it to the hub. If you happen to have one of these going, or even a damaged one that could be made good with swapping parts from another, then I would be interested. You are in Leicester arent you? Ta Alan ( at ) darkroom.plus.com
In article , Tom Woods writes
Wasn't there that army TV advert 5 or 6 years ago that showed a 101 flying through the air?
Yes in Leicester. Sounds like the same part that broke on ours. Will let you know what he says.
Spoke to they guy who has some spare a while ago, and aparently yours should have the same number of splines as ours as it was the later ones that had the increase in number. He's almost certain he's got a pair, and is going to get in touch with me later tonight. I'll let you know what he says later anyway.
I found new rear springs made amazing difference to the ride quality of my tatty S2A/3. Before them it used to feel as though one cough snd I'd sh*t my kidneys out!
Cheers Gary
Not a nice way to put it, but it gets the point across!
Ok - so I've just come back from my first really long drive in the S3 and the speedo definitely has a mind of its own. Have had a look back through the past threads - but once again.. lots very similar nothing quite the same.
So here's my thoughts:
The speedo *never* gets above 50mph. (The vehicle its-self never gets above 55mph - but thats a problem for another day). On the motorway, the needle holds steady but its normally showing between 40 and 50 when going flat out. Have checked this against a GPS and its definitely well wrong. On one curious stretch of motorway - the needle progressively dropped steadily down to showing 18mph (without out any change in speed of the vehicle).
As the needle is steady - from the past posts I believe I can rule out the speedo cable?
So.. as they're cheap enough, was going to replace the speedo its-self with a 2nd hand unit. But I've seen talk in the past of 'LWB speedo's' and 'SWB speedo's'. Are they not the same?!
Also - have I foolishly assumed its not a huge job to swap out a speedo?
Many thanks,
MIn article , Mark Gowans writes
My IIa 109 needle seemed to show sensible speeds most of the time, and dodgy speeds at other times. Usually when it went dodgy, it would swing between say 30 and 50 continually.
Not sure about the speedos themselves, but the tyres were different diameters on SWB and LWB, so there needs to be some alteration, but not sure where it was done.
Having pulled the dash out an inch or so on my IIa, having seen the rats nest of wiring behind and promptly shoved it back, it might be a bigger job than you think!
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