Dutch Rover V8 "4600" - (former 2200TC topic)

Thanks guys! :D

GrimV8 said:
First pic is great when I scroll the van out 8)

No offence to any modern van owners :mrgreen:
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The van is a bit of a bummer, sadly the buildings next to this castle are used frequently, hence the van. :)

Dave3066 said:
Thijs Leuven said:
Nothing much to work on currently, she's running lovely!
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Famous last words Thijs :D

Glad to hear she's running well, she certainly looks well.

Dave
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Hehe, I just called all doom over myself now haven't I? :mrgreen:
 
And she's still running lovely! Took out the horrible, non functioning, car speakers installed in the doors and sorted that out.

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Apart from that the carburetors are sweating rather badly... I don't have any previous experience with the SU carburetors, are they hard to do up?

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What I'd love to have is one of those big Webasto sun roofs... 8) Are they hard to come by and at what kind of price do they sell? I imagine it would be easiest to get hold of a complete roof fitted with a sun roof instead of cutting op mine.
 
Thijs Leuven said:
And she's still running lovely! Took out the horrible, non functioning, car speakers installed in the doors and sorted that out.

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Apart from that the carburetors are sweating rather badly... I don't have any previous experience with the SU carburetors, are they hard to do up?

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What I'd love to have is one of those big Webasto sun roofs... 8) Are they hard to come by and at what kind of price do they sell? I imagine it would be easiest to get hold of a complete roof fitted with a sun roof instead of cutting op mine.
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me to i would love to fit a webasto roof, im respraying rosie next year so might try and sort one,
your car looks really well, love the tc s
marcus
 
My car has had coolant leaks since the day I purchased her. Yesterday I (finally :oops: ) had a closer look at where these leaks were situated. Turns out both the small pieces of hose attached to the T-shaped adaptor (attached to the thermostat cover) are old, crackled, beat up and therefore not quite water tight... In the Haynes manual I have they are displayed on page 67 and are numbered 32 and 34.

Where can I find these pieces of hose? Smink (the biggest P6 dealer in the Netherlands) did not have them in stock when I last contacted him. Are there any dealers/garages in the UK that might have them?
 
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Two lovely new pieces of hose! :)

Fitting them wasn't too hard, so that's good. A bigger problem is the leak I discovered in my radiator... :( It doesn't seem to be very big. Is there a 'cheap' way of fixing this rather than replacing the entire radiator? Could it be welded or are there some kinds of adhesives/paste that I can model across the hole? :)
 
If the leak is in one of the side tanks it might be possible to braze it. But an leak involving the core is pretty well terminal. There are all sorts of things you can buy which claim to seal it up. But none of them are a long term fix and the only debate is how little time they are going to last. The better news is that there is every reason to think that you have radiator repair shops in Holland just like anywhere else, and they should be able to put a new core in your existing radiator. At the very least that will save on the postage to the UK for a replacement!

Chris
 
Thanks for your quick reply Chris!

It's in the core, so I'm guessing that is going to need replacing. Bit of a bummer, still can't drive her right now untill this is sorted.
 
That is a fine choice of car! I had exactly the same car, even with the boot mount when I was a student and it was an everyday classic then too (1993). Of course mine had the steering wheel on the correct side unlike yours, but nothing's perfect. Similarities do not end there as I had my father enslaved at weekends also....

Now in 2012 after a few years in normal cars I am back at it, although the Rovers are more ornamental than transport I am ashamed to admit. That's what 5500 mile distance to the parts suppliers will do....

Nice job....
 
I would show the rad to a repair shop. Anyone competent should be able to fix it, even if it means closing off the whole tube. You could try an epoxy glue on the leak, do you have Araldite over there? I have used it before on plastic tank radiators and it seems to work well.
 
Thanks for the kind comments. :)

I'm currently looking for a repair shop close to me for a proper fix. The car needs to be good, so no temporary fixes on things as vital as the cooling. I'll keep you posted. 8)
 
Okay, slowly but surely I'm growing more certain that I've completely lost my marbles... :LOL:

Fired up the car this weekend, filled her up to the brim with coolant and water to find the exact location of the leak. The leak was nowhere to be found. Drove her around a bit, checked the level of the fluids in the cooling systeem. Not a drop spilled. The only worrying thing is that as soon as I rev her up to 3,000rpms the temperature gauge almost directly shoots way beyond the 100 degrees. It's not possible that such an amount of water heats up that quickly. Sticking my finger into the coolant directly afterwards confirmed my suspicion, quite hot but nowhere near the 100 degrees my car was telling me it was.

Assured by my findings, I drove her from my parent's place to mine which is a 20km drive. On the highway the temperature gauge was indicating way more than 100 degrees, way more. Stopping and checking the temperature with my index finger reassured me that the car was not overheating. :)

All of a sudden I seem to have a electrical problem rather than a cooling problem, but it's still very very scary driving around with a temperature gauge beyond the danger zone... :LOL:
 
Sounds like a voltage regulator problem.....though really it could be any other thing :mrgreen:


Graeme
 
Since the electronics are my favorite part of my car *cough cough* I'm slowly but surely learning to live with my messed up temperature gauge. :LOL:
 
An easy thing to test is the temperature sender on the outside of the thermostat housing. If you pull the wire off and touch it on the engine block the needle on yout gauge should move to maximum. This will show you (or not) that your gauge is working and the sender is faulty.
 
For the first time in months I've had a problem with my Rover! :shock: Dragged me all through the very cold, salt free parts of the winter but now she's had quite enough of it.

Drove her over to my home today, but in the parking lot she gave up on me by not wanting to get out of reverse gear... You can move the gearlever about a bit, but it won't come out of reverse by any means. Tried backing up the car a bit, but that wouldn't help either... Had to ask a passer-by to push me into a parking spot. :oops:

Any clue what this could be? Have to say that I haven't checked the gearbox oil in ages, might it just be a low oil level?
 
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