67 Wolseley MkI 18/85

[Admin]

What a transformation, I saw those cappings at Keef's and they really did look shabby! Nice work on the doors too

[Penguin45]

Thanks, chaps.

They look like this:





O/s ones fitted - they clip over the top edge of the door and are retained by two screws at the bottom. The "sticky-up" brackets I thought we needed are a red herring. I did need to make up the arm rest brackets, though.





These are handed of o/s and n/s, which is why I've made 5 . Bent one over the wrong way and can't bend it back properly .

Time for some cleaning and then start fitting things up.

Chris.

[tommydp]

Well done! It looks great!

[Penguin45]

I've got one back together:



I like that.

Chris.

[dave1800]

I am really impressed, you put my past efforts to shame

[Penguin45]

The rest are now done:





Pleased with that. Fiddly but satisfying.

Chris.

[Keef]

May 22, 2011 18:54:51 GMT Penguin45 said:

Is it just me or does it look more luxurious now?

[Penguin45]

Mmmmmmmmmmm - yes. It's also "right". That might be it....?

Thanks again, Keef.

Chris.

[Penguin45]

I have dealt with the irritating "clonk" on taking up the drive. This was the Hardy Spicer universal joint in the right hand drive shaft. I had initially thought that the cause was the inboard drive flange, as there appeared to be loose bolts where it joined the main drive shaft. A discussion with Mike Jordan suggested that there shouldn't be any nuts and bolts, rather studs through the inner flange. Anyway, he kindly dropped off an old shaft, and Wednesday evening, I set about removing the shaft from the car.

Should be a nice easy job, really. Wheel off, nut off, driving flange and disc off, caliper and dust shield off, release brake flexi hose and pop the ball joints and steering arm end to release the hub as I decided to do the wheel bearing at the same time.

Things started well enough:


Hydraulic puller soon had the driving flange off.


Naughty "split pin" - more bodgery discovered.


Steering arm joint was tight.


Very tight - broke the tool.


Borrowed Adrian's fork, which did the job, but wrecked two of the three dust boots.

Still not coming off - finished up destroying the brake line through the wing and having to chop the flexi hose off at the fixings with the angle grinder and a slitting disc. Add to that that one of the dust shield bolts had to have its head ground off and the caliper bleed screw sheared off, so by Thursday evening I was having a "thoroughly bad day".

Lets take the shaft apart and make one out of two.


Nice try - the circlips weren't going anywhere. I did manage to remove two after a titanic struggle involving plenty of swearing, which at least allowed a couple of the bearing cups to be driven out.


Drive through screwdriver and lump hammer are the ideal tools. Mike old driveshaft came apart very easily, but also had a worn UJ.


Badly damaged yoke.


Mangled cross from the UJ.

So........


Fit proper studs to inner flange from my drive shaft.


Assemble new UJ into Mike's yoke and shaft ('cos the circlips came out nice and easily). QUite straight forward - use a suitably sized socket and the vice to squeeze the new cups home. Assemble my CV joint with new boot onto the drive shaft and the job was done.



Nice.

[Penguin45]

As for the rest of it........


Made up new brake line.


Graphic evidence if what happened to the old one.


There it goes, down to:


- the new flexi pipe.

Drilled out the remainder of the dust shield screw, then set about the bleed screw. Easyouts wouldn't touch it, even with heat, so it was drill it out in 0.5mm steps. Very nervewracking if you're working free hand....... Ran an old 3/8" UNF brake pipe fitting through the threads and they cleared nicely.

Wheel bearings took twenty minutes with a large drift and lump hammer to knock the races out and replace. Clean everything and plenty of grease, then time to reassemble.

With clean parts and fixings and plenty of copper grease, the whole lot went back together in under an hour.



Done, no clonk.

P45.

[sherpa]

Top write up man you are Chris.

I always look read these with intrest.

Cheers!

[tommydp]

Well done! Looks great! I enjoy the pictures!

Tommy:-)

[Penguin45]

I have just returned from a week in Cornwall. 820 mile round trip and the car has behaved immaculately. 1.5 pints of oil used and 35.8 to the gallon is not at all bad for the old girl, especially as there were 5 of us and the boot was full.

However, the week before was a bit of a nightmare. Set off the previous Tuesday to go to the LOCI meet up at York. Pulled the car out of the garage and left it idling whilst I closed up the garage and came back to see a pool of liquid forming under the rear of the car. This was a split hose from the fuel pump outlet to the fuel pipe. Being in a bit of a hurry, I whipped off the reinforced hose and jammed on a short length of rubber hose I found lying about and set off. I got eight miles........ Damn thing kinked over and stopped the fuel flow. No tools, so wait for the RAC to come and rescue me. Older chap, so knew about the cars, although he took offence at the badge on the front.



Still, he got the car going, although by now it was late in the evening, so I turned round and went home.

The following day, I started up the car and the fuel pump didn't stop and there wasn't fuel tiddling out of the tank. Opened the bonnet and it was pouring out of the overflow from the rear carburettor. Doubtless it was crud stirred up by my rescuer, but I ordered up a pair of float valves from Burlen anyway and fitted them on the Friday. The world was good again. Went for a spin to check and it wasn't. Brake pedal almost to the floor. Still stopped all right, but there was no way I was prepared to run down to Cornwall with all the kids with the car in that condition.

Saturday afternoon was clear, so I set to to bleed the entire brake system. Nearside caliper promptly sheared its nipple off. Heard this before, haven't we.......? This time it was a case of fitting new seals to the spare caliper and getting that onto the car. Finished up destroying the flexi-pipe and the brake pipe - we've heard that before, as well. By Sunday evening, I'd got everything back together and on the car, bled everything as best I could - the pedal was all over the place. My mate Adi came down to give me a hand and we decided that the brake servo had lost the will to live. Bit like me then, at that point - somehow, me, the boys and one senior girlfriend (NOT MINE!) HAD to get to Widemouth Bay (A mere 354 miles away) by Friday evening. Mothers 80th - be there or be disinherited......

I managed to scrounge up a second hand servo locally on Monday evening, got back and bolted it it on. I did, of course, manage to mangle more pipework in the process, so Tuesday evening saw new pipes being made up and fitted, prior to Adi "The Leg" coming down to help out. We pumped and pumped and pumped. We did it again on Wednesday evening as well. I think we put about 3 litres of fluid though before we were satisfied things weren't going to get any better. I'm afraid the camera rather got laid to one side in the panic to try and get this work done, although I did take a couple of subtle before and after shots of the engine bay.



Before........



....... and after. Looks a bit neater if nothing else.

Teri (Mrs Adi) came down on the Wednesday evening to see what we were up to and got rather bored. Here's what she did to my notice board.



Anyway, the brakes are still not quite as I'd wish, although they are perfectly adequate - pedal is still a little low on the first press, before the servo brings it up on the second. Got to still be a little bit of air somewhere in the system........ Grrrr.

Anyway, had a good week in Cornwall, Mother very happy, kids spent the week surfing and the world was a good place once more.

Chris.

[Penguin45]

Rah! High fidelity sound system installed in the car. Only a teensy weensy one, mind you. Miniature Chinese power amp has finally turned up after a month's wait. This has had to be dismantled and re-assembled upside down in the casing to allow me to mount it under the dash rail. This gave me the opportunity to paint the casing black (Red metallic anodising is just not 1960s). Couple of screw holes drilled and the job was a good one.

A couple of small, sturdy, passive computer speakers were aquired from Maplins and have been tucked up under the dash.

Finally, MrsP has got me an MP3 player with an FM radio capability. Having read through the instructions twice, I asked the kids to put music on the device. Nicholas (Twin 1) has loaded up the pile of CDs I dug up, with much tutting and rolling of eyes at Dad's incompetence. I have managed to set the the thing to shuffle all by myself, so there is perhaps hope for us older technology duffers.


Not a lot to see.


There it is.


Secret speaker - there's another on the other side - it's the 21st century - I think I'm allowed stereo.

It actually sounds rather good, but the speakers will have to be re--visited at some point as there's not a great deal of volume.

Still, for a total expenditure of £43 and a few pennies, I'm rather pleased with that.

Chris.

[Keef]

Aug 19, 2011 0:34:53 GMT Penguin45 said:

I have managed to set the the thing to shuffle all by myself

Well done P.!

Just make sure it doesn't shuffle out the door.