HELP! Nellie's running like crap, and it's a week till Spain
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Sean
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 Re: HELP! Nellie's running like crap, and it's a week till S cheapo points assist kits like Vellaman/Maplins do away with the condensor as does the more expensive BoyerBrandsen
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J-dub
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Re: HELP! Nellie's running like crap, and it's a week till S Roy Eastwood wrote: Bad move, condensers are not the best thing these days, for reliability if in doubt keep old condenser & clean existing points with a diamond file, if I thought points were required I would fit the new points alone. Luke wrote: ............(lots cut out)...........FWIW, if I was hoping to save a couple of pennies on a service, I'd always fit a new condenser and just clean the old points up a bit. Best to do both though! I always did both together.
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Luke
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Re: HELP! Nellie's running like crap, and it's a week till S Roy Eastwood wrote: Bad move, condensers are not the best thing these days, for reliability if in doubt keep old condenser & clean existing points with a diamond file, if I thought points were required I would fit the new points alone. Luke wrote: ............(lots cut out)...........FWIW, if I was hoping to save a couple of pennies on a service, I'd always fit a new condenser and just clean the old points up a bit. Best to do both though! There's logic in that, I suppose! Velleman kit is my preference, but presumably a more modern capacitor would do the job cheaply and more reliably?
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Louise
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Re: HELP! Nellie's running like crap, and it's a week till S ken wrote: ken ( p.s. My cranked 12mm carburettor spanner seems to have gone walkabout at Registers. Last seen in the vicinity of Louise's 2CV, the one which had a dodgy 'super-duper' plug lead...  ) Ken, I've just sent dad a text he said that he thought you had your's back and he used his, hope you find it soon
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ken
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Re: HELP! Nellie's running like crap, and it's a week till S Thanks Louise, no worries about that spanner, as I've already made a better one. More important, hope the car's running better after that bit of 'fettling in a field' and all set to go en vacances...  ken Louise wrote: ken wrote: ken ( p.s. My cranked 12mm carburettor spanner seems to have gone walkabout at Registers. Last seen in the vicinity of Louise's 2CV, the one which had a dodgy 'super-duper' plug lead... ) Ken, I've just sent dad a text he said that he thought you had your's back and he used his, hope you find it soon
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Louise
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Re: HELP! Nellie's running like crap, and it's a week till S ken wrote: Thanks Louise, no worries about that spanner, as I've already made a better one. More important, hope the car's running better after that bit of 'fettling in a field' and all set to go en vacances... ken Louise wrote: ken wrote: ken ( p.s. My cranked 12mm carburettor spanner seems to have gone walkabout at Registers. Last seen in the vicinity of Louise's 2CV, the one which had a dodgy 'super-duper' plug lead... ) Ken, I've just sent dad a text he said that he thought you had your's back and he used his, hope you find it soon Running perfectly thank you! Looking forward to our trip now 
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marky d
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Re: HELP! Nellie's running like crap, and it's a week till S Rumble602 wrote: Well I've changed the condenser, and things appear to be running a lot better. An Ecas super coil is on order, to replace the collection of duff coils Nikki has been acquiring. Sounds like the problem has been fixed, but I'll bring along a new coil I have as a spare, plus points and condenser and a length of fuel hose, should there be a shortage of either in anyone's spares kit! How good is Nellie's battery? I've a new one spare if needed. Probably not the problem, but have the valve clearances been checked recently? I had a situation once where the gap(s) on one side had closed up, causing a loss of power, etc. I had it down as a condenser failure too...
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deuchebleu
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Re: HELP! Nellie's running like crap, and it's a week till S Luke wrote: There's logic in that, I suppose! Velleman kit is my preference, but presumably a more modern capacitor would do the job cheaply and more reliably? Anyone ever fitted one of these Velleman kits. I've looked at them before but the biggest problems to my mind are where to put it and what to do about the heatsink if it goes in a box?
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samfieldhouse
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Re: HELP! Nellie's running like crap, and it's a week till S deuchebleu wrote: Luke wrote: There's logic in that, I suppose! Velleman kit is my preference, but presumably a more modern capacitor would do the job cheaply and more reliably? Anyone ever fitted one of these Velleman kits. I've looked at them before but the biggest problems to my mind are where to put it and what to do about the heatsink if it goes in a box? Yes me! And I couldn't get it to work... I think I must have wired it up wrong, so it's a job for another day  And Aidan, you are doing the tappets to right?
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ken
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