The journey of one man and his Mule(s)

[craig]

This is why I don't do working on cars, and leave it to Pete.

Chin up mate, hope the internets are fruitful, and you get it sorted.

[Magic Beans]

In a turn of fortune I have managed to get a couple of other significant, albeit not car related, tasks finished. Most important of which is configuring our home server as a full Hyperspin environment For those who aren't familiar with HS it's basically an application which pulls together loads of different arcade/console/computer emulators, all their roms , artwork and videos and works like the ultimate arcade machine.

Here's a video (with the world's dullest man!) for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y76_LLq4FI

I'm off back to the 80's and 90's now, where I belong

[pistol pete]

still confused as to what it is, but can't watch vid as im at work..

but glad you got it sorted..

i have a few adaptors if you know what sizes you want om me and ill have a look see what we have

get back to jap then you won't get all the silly sizes

[Magic Beans]

You'd love it, Pete! It's a whole world of retro gaming loveliness

Thanks for the offer on the adapter I now know the sender is ⅛"NPTF, I just need to work out what size it needs adapting to Maybe I'll get a photo and upload it on how here with measurements and some wise and kindly sort will be able to point me in the right direction

[markstevieandmads]

I always wanted to do a HS setup on an arcade machine but ended up sticking with something like maximus arcade etc.

I could never get all the software and extras together to make a working system. I wanted a complete all in one solution to download and just stick some roms in but could never find anything,

[Magic Beans]

HS is awesome and works incredibly in an arcade cab. My friend built his own full-sized cab to run it all and it's brilliant! Instant nostalgia It is a beast to configure from scratch though, especially all the videos etc

[Magic Beans]

Here's photos of the senders, in case any wise sort can ID them and offer suggestions of what I need?

Here's the sender I need an adapter for, allowing it to be attached to the larger bored sandwich plate. Apparently it's 1/8" NPFT.





And this is the sender removed from the sandwich plate, so the size I need the above adapting to fit.





Any advice most gratefully received

[slipping clutch]

Phil first thing I would do is pop to machine mart or similar and buy yourself a thread gauge approx £4.00 - save you some heart ache in the future I suspect!

[Magic Beans]

It'll be a few days now until I can sort anything, I'm out of the country until Thursday

[Magic Beans]

Back in the country after a few days away on business, driving around Ireland in what must be the slowest BMW know to man. That being the 316D with it's mighty 114bhp, which is less than half what my 1er has and weighs around 100kg more

Anyway, back to matters in hand...

I've got sick of trying to ID the thread size and ultimately the thread adapter I need for the sandwich plate so have stuck the original one back in and will tackle it later. I do now have a plug to go in the head, thanks to Nick, so that's one half of the job sorted at least

Nick suggested I should cheap the clearances before swapping the oil etc, so I picked myself up one of those tools I should have got ages ago but haven't needed to.. feeler gauges. All clearances were checked with the exhaust side all having a 0.2mm gap, which is spot on. The intake side were slightly low, being a mix of 0.13 - 0.20, so Nick kindly popped around today and swapped the shims for slightly larger ones and everything is pretty much spot on. Thanks again, Nick

I used the the need to take the cam covers off as an opportunity to do a job I've long been wanting to do, respraying them. Here's the before:



Oil, cams and other gubbins.



Temporary cover, learning lessons from the past....



Here's what I had to work with.



Degreased and scrubbed.



Prepped for surgery.



A few coats of Hammerite Smooth and some baking on the radiator later, they're done. Not perfect but they didn't need to be. If I'd wanted perfect I'd have had them powdercoated, this car's not really about that though.



Back on, fired up and leak tested.



Obviously a test drive was needed, in the rain... Light ish rain at a healthy speed comes pretty damn keen!



All in all it's another little job done and another step closer to where it needs to be. Next up is to swap the oil and filter then book in for a re-tune, trying to put some miles on it before hand. After that it's alignment and corner weighting, then it's pretty much ready for Blyton at the end of March

[craig]

Nice work on the cam covers mate, looks much better.

[Ben]

Not perfect but they didn't need to be.

Who are you, and what have you done with Phil?

[Magic Beans]

Nice work on the cam covers mate, looks much better.

Thanks, Craig Definitely better than scruffy bare old metal.

Not perfect but they didn't need to be.

Who are you, and what have you done with Phil?

I know, bad eh. Avoids it becoming a garage queen though

[Ben]

True! Looking forward to my passenger ride around Blyton

[Magic Beans]

Wear helium underpants that day, it helps with the p/w ratios

[pistol pete]

Good work buddy

Keep it up
Looking forward to Blyton defo wanna go out in it
Will be good fun... Hmmm can I get some springs on in time...

[Magic Beans]

I'm looking forward to seeing all these little cars buzzing around, followed by Frank's megabus Merc

[GeorgeL]

Not perfect but they didn't need to be.

Who are you, and what have you done with Phil?

I know, bad eh. Avoids it becoming a garage queen though [/quote]

Haha I was thinking the same just reading that there. It's true Phil as you know... Spend too long making the car perfect and you don't want to drive it.

It's looking great bud 👍 ..

[Gullzter]

Its crazy how just painting cam covers make the engine bay look almost new again!

[Magic Beans]

Haha I was thinking the same just reading that there. It's true Phil as you know... Spend too long making the car perfect and you don't want to drive it.

It's looking great bud 👍 ..

Thanks, George

The next project (there is one in the pipeline ) will be back to being both, fear not

Its crazy how just painting cam covers make the engine bay look almost new again!

It's often the little things which make the most difference. Well, whacking a turbo on it would be a big project and make a big difference too I guess. I'm not looking at doing that on this car, hell no!