Thread: dont whinge about LR maintenance

Originally Posted by Tins

Yeah, but in 1977 mechanical fuel injection was high tech. Seeing that pic, though, shows that there was nothing much to fear.

Edit: Obviously mech fuel injection was NOT high tech for diesels... Petrol cars were a different story.

Oh, that is just a picture I had handy to show the layout. That is an '85 petrol turbo. The '76 models are a twin choke weber carby. they didn't get fuel injection for a few years and it was electronic. the Citroen DS did get Djectronic in the late 60's. Though it shares much of its components with every other Djectronic cars of its era.

Yes compared to local cars it would have been horrendously complex. I remember when I was a kid pointing to the "alloy head" badges and "radial tuned suspension" badges on local cars and saying "Doesn't mums renault 16 have an all alloy motor .... 1960's ... not 1990s" ...... Citroen was using radial tires in 1948 ......

these days they are nothing special. Back then they must have been quite something. Still mine will never be for sale. Their isn't a modern car that interests me even in the slightest. The damn things are all the same.

Originally Posted by Tins

I don't recall that it had horn trumpets in that location.

All of the Citroen CX's sold here had "town" and "country" horns. You push the horn button gently and you get a very loud horn.. push it a bit harder and a second later (feels like an eternity when your desperately trying to avoid and accident) .... the air horns cut in .... it sounds like you have a freight train bearing down on you when they start sounding

Its all fun.

I know i sound like a nutter .... but this is my view right now if I look up from my work desk (my home office is in the back corner of the shed).

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it only gets worse if go looking at the falling down sheds and carports around the yard

Originally Posted by 350RRC

A woman I knew 30 years ago had a Mini Moke.

AFAIR the ring gear was trashed, but it might have been the clutch. Cost 3k to get fixed, which was a lot back then.

DL

It takes like 30mins to remove the engine, when i lived in the UK i had to change a gearbox on my Fiat Strada (FWD very much like a VW golf). Did the swap out the front of my mates house as no one had a garage or shed, not a difficult job but in cold pommy weather without proper tools was a bit harder.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

All of the Citroen CX's sold here had "town" and "country" horns. You push the horn button gently and you get a very loud horn.. push it a bit harder and a second later (feels like an eternity when your desperately trying to avoid and accident) .... the air horns cut in .... it sounds like you have a freight train bearing down on you when they start sounding

First time I came across that was in a 1959 Bentley Continental but it's a European thing. The FIAT 130 I mentioned did it, but there was a switch to change it.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Its all fun.

I know i sound like a nutter ....

Nope. You're just eccentric. Vive la difference! And I couldn't agree more about modern cars. I like to keep my 'appliances' in the kitchen.

Great view from the office, BTW. Is that an 11CV, or a Light 15? Or some variant I'm ignorant of?

Originally Posted by Tins

First time I came across that was in a 1959 Bentley Continental but it's a European thing. The FIAT 130 I mentioned did it, but there was a switch to change it.



Nope. You're just eccentric. Vive la difference! And I couldn't agree more about modern cars. I like to keep my 'appliances' in the kitchen.

Great view from the office, BTW. Is that an 11CV, or a Light 15? Or some variant I'm ignorant of?

I'll get to the thing someday. life it just to busy at the moment. That is my fathers Traction Avant Legere. Which means it a small body french built car, but in RHD. Apparentlly they were delivered in primer and is painted a chrysler colour from the time. So being french is has the dainty little door handles, painted grill and metal dash. Most are UK build so feature slabs of dead tree and chome all over Its only taken me about 5 years to get its gearbox back together and re-installed. I just need to go through the brakes again now as its been sitting so long..... I'll pencil that in for just after chistmas ...... 2035 .........

I'm told this car was used in the sullivans at one point. I've never seen the show though, its waaaayyy before my time

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

I'll get to the thing someday. life it just to busy at the moment. That is my fathers Traction Avant Legere. Which means it a small body french built car, but in RHD. Apparentlly they were delivered in primer and is painted a chrysler colour from the time. So being french is has the dainty little door handles, painted grill and metal dash. Most are UK build so feature slabs of dead tree and chome all over Its only taken me about 5 years to get its gearbox back together and re-installed. I just need to go through the brakes again now as its been sitting so long..... I'll pencil that in for just after chistmas ...... 2035 .........

Can't rush these things.. That you've kept it at all is admirable.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

I'm told this car was used in the sullivans at one point. I've never seen the show though, its waaaayyy before my time

Wouldn't surprise me at all. It wasn't before mine.

Originally Posted by Tins

.............Mrs Little didn't drive cars older than a year. Her previous car became the office runabout..........

Sounds like my father's relatives who were cane farmers, he described them as "sugar barons" who never bought tyres for their cars, as by the time they needed tyres they'd already bought a new car.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

It takes like 30mins to remove the engine, when i lived in the UK i had to change a gearbox on my Fiat Strada (FWD very much like a VW golf). Did the swap out the front of my mates house as no one had a garage or shed, not a difficult job but in cold pommy weather without proper tools was a bit harder.

Thanks Nick.

That was a Fiat............ this was the same as a Mini.

Point is that no one wanted to touch this job back then, hence the cost from one mob in Geelong.

Mainstream price now in D3/4 territory, just to fix ................ a weeping wallet ecu.

DL