It's a bit like our old cat
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 2:15 pm
I've just bought a traveller, nice enough and as (almost) always it's going to be a 'work in progress'. Since getting it - through the wonder of e bay (!) - I've had a reasonably thorough look over and into it...
It's a bit like our old cat, in as much that the bones (floor, chassis, etc) are good/been repaired/replaced, some of the bits that have been fitted by Morris 'specialists' have been done to an appalling standard.
The spark plugs were fitted straight from the box with massive gaps, points are badly fitted and gapped, timing was out, carb/mixture too rich to compensate for lack of power and rocker gaps 7 out of 8 too big by up to 8 thou!
The people I bought from seemed reasonably decent, mechanically they probably didn't have much acumen, I don't know BUT the thing is that they have been ripped off by (I was told) a well known and reputable company.
I've put the bodges to rights and the car pulls well now, the brakes are 90% better too now that I've adjusted the brakes.
Oh, I forgot to mention the servo which is fitted but inoperative, that's getting the strip down treatment as soon as it stops raining..
Yes, it's just like our old cat, I knew it wasn't worth what I'd agreed to pay for it - and did - but it will give me a lot to take my mind off things, something to work on, be worth a lot more to me than I paid for it because of the troubles we face and defeat, the fun that ownership will bring and the comments that will come over the years.
Our old fluffy ginger and white cat, that we got from a pet shop, who didn't have fleas.. they had him! Who was trained to sit and pick up pegs on command and attack my missus' feet when she wasn't looking, he has been re incarnated.
Not as a ginger and white tom cat, he's a blue Moggy!
It's a bit like our old cat, in as much that the bones (floor, chassis, etc) are good/been repaired/replaced, some of the bits that have been fitted by Morris 'specialists' have been done to an appalling standard.
The spark plugs were fitted straight from the box with massive gaps, points are badly fitted and gapped, timing was out, carb/mixture too rich to compensate for lack of power and rocker gaps 7 out of 8 too big by up to 8 thou!
The people I bought from seemed reasonably decent, mechanically they probably didn't have much acumen, I don't know BUT the thing is that they have been ripped off by (I was told) a well known and reputable company.
I've put the bodges to rights and the car pulls well now, the brakes are 90% better too now that I've adjusted the brakes.
Oh, I forgot to mention the servo which is fitted but inoperative, that's getting the strip down treatment as soon as it stops raining..
Yes, it's just like our old cat, I knew it wasn't worth what I'd agreed to pay for it - and did - but it will give me a lot to take my mind off things, something to work on, be worth a lot more to me than I paid for it because of the troubles we face and defeat, the fun that ownership will bring and the comments that will come over the years.
Our old fluffy ginger and white cat, that we got from a pet shop, who didn't have fleas.. they had him! Who was trained to sit and pick up pegs on command and attack my missus' feet when she wasn't looking, he has been re incarnated.
Not as a ginger and white tom cat, he's a blue Moggy!