Lowrider Dave - 1994 GLS (Archer)

[Lowrider Dave]

Cheers for the wiring notes Robsey, makes sense.
The wires looked white in the photo but are probably light grey, I was just surprised at coming across all three being the same colour and wondered if any were redundant.

[Lowrider Dave]

Picture of Cl- arse-kson idiot

I'll fix him with a hammer...

[Lowrider Dave]

did you remember to pull out the rubber gauze from the windscreen washer reservoir when you cleaned it?

Yep! Not too dirty. Pity the blue windscreen wash seems to have stained the plastic inside!

[Lowrider Dave]

[Joey Deacon? - wow that is a blast from the past...

Those that know, know

[Lowrider Dave]

And now the moment no-one has been waiting for… update!

New copper pipes were inexpertly bent to a rough shape that resembled a dead snake - that had died whilst having an epileptic fit- and then stuck them to the underside of the car with grey plastoscene .


Small clamp on a small pipe that may contain liquid at some point. Probably not tea.


New plastic clamps. Genuine. From Holland. Bought way too many but hey, I can sell them on for £10 each plus a packet of Rollos.


And to prove I did it and not just sellotaped things in place for a photo…




The battery tray was in pretty good condition, unlike a rabbit that’s accidentially run towards a combine harvester.


The battery tray again but this time with a rubber sheet to stop the battery weeing on it.


As Vic Reeves once said, “Dizzy!”. The car had been a bit juddery, hesitant and generally sluggish - ‘crap’, I believe is the technical phrase. So I whipped out my tool and with a flick of the wrist, released one off. Bolt that is, which was followed by two others and hence I have a distributor now adorning the roof where I could look at it’s utmost inner secrets/guts/whirlpool of infinite blackness. Although it does look like an empty spa tub.
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What I discovered was so horrific that I cannot bring myself to write about it, so use your eyes and look at this. Don’t tell the children.


Looking for something else to remove and ‘improve’ in the same way Donald Trump improves politics, I removed the dipstick oil breather pipe and got down and dirty with it.


Once I’d calmed down (cup of tea and two digestives later) and back in the engine bay, the rotor arm looked and felt a bit rough and crinkley, a bit like a McCoy’s crisp made out of sandpaper. This, like many other things I have carefully removed/broken/willfully hacked into pieces as imagine each part has a tiny picture of Noel Edmonds face on it, will be replaced with new parts.

[James McGrath]

Making good progress.

I bought a new dizzy cap for my LS about 2 years ago and still haven't got round to fitting it yet.

[Cavalier342]

Prepare for a shock as those distributor caps have gone up in price. Good progress there

[Mikebmth]

Prepare for a shock as those distributor caps have gone up in price. Good progress there

Yup, try £40 for the one on mine!!

Good work Dave, will be dropping mine off shortly with all the spare bits you have

[Lowrider Dave]

Good work Dave, will be dropping mine off shortly with all the spare bits you have

LOL! Lowrider Garage always open, but only for deliveries of tea and biscuits!
New dizzy cost me £37. Ordered new rotor and leads whilst I was about it.

[Lowrider Dave]

Handy hints #43.
When disassembling parts, push bolts into card to keep them in the order they were removed and also to stop you losing them. These were from the rocker cover but I replaced them with new bolts anyway.


I helped relieve our postman of his bulging sack…and was rewarded with new rotor, dizzy HT leads and some jubilee clips.


I thought the breather/dipstick pipe would look better if I cleaned it up and got rid of the rusty surface, so after a quick rub down I gave it a coat or two of primer.


The breather/dipstick pipe had a thin gasket which I dutifully replaced using CAD (Cardboard Aided Design)


Added a new expansion cap…


…and the new HT leads, etc


The current state of the Lowrider Garage


Regular drunkards will recall I had a running issue - i.e: It wouldn’t. Luckily some very nice people on the forum pointed out I was doing something stupid (well, more than usual) and this it now runs nicely - huzzah!

[Cavalier342]

I helped relieve our postman of his bulging sack

Sorry Sir, I am not known for having a clean mind....

[James McGrath]

Looking good Dave.

If your thinking of getting some hub caps for it the part number for your model year is: 90372634

[Lowrider Dave]

Thanks James. I do have my eye on a set of SRi fanblades or perhaps a set of Calibre Vintage...

[Lowrider Dave]

Hmmm, leather.

[tonyo]

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Hmmm, leather.

That'll make a positive change, surprising how the little details make a big difference. Doing the handbrake lever too?

[Lowrider Dave]

That'll make a positive change, surprising how the little details make a big difference. Doing the handbrake lever too?

Oh yes, handbrake lever too

[Robsey]

Loving the double entendres..

Great progress too.
Looks like the dizzy caps have doubled in price since I bought my last one in 2011.

I would be worried if your battery is weeing or splurging out anything onto the battery tray.

I cracked my handbrake and gear lever plastics stapling replacement leather covers on mine.
Might be easier with some contact adhesive. Evo-stik would work a treat and smells great for days after too.

[humbucker]

"Regular drunkards" hahaha!

[tonyo]

I cracked my handbrake and gear lever plastics stapling replacement leather covers on mine.

Me too.. Thankfully not so badly to affect the rigidity, but it's something to be careful with..

[colin1]

The current state of the Lowrider Garage
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I seriously need a garage that big

[colin1]

The current state of the Lowrider Garage
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I seriously need a garage that big

[Lowrider Dave]

I cracked my handbrake and gear lever plastics stapling replacement leather covers on mine.

Me too.. Thankfully not so badly to affect the rigidity, but it's something to be careful with..

I'm WAY too fussy, I extract the original staples by bending them back and the punch new holes into the new leather and reinsert the old staples back into the original holes. PITA, but keeps it all aligned nicely!

[Lowrider Dave]

I seriously need a garage that big

You are welcomed to my damp riddled, broken doored garage!

[Robsey]

At risk of hijacking the thread...
A garage with damp and a broken door is waaaay better than an open parking area on a windy hillside any day.

[Lowrider Dave]

Oh absolutely Robsey - after all those years of wet and cold drives/roads I was completely over the moon when we bought the house. But it seems the garage didn't have any damp course put in when built, so water leeches up through the floor. I have a plan to fix this once the V6 is sold and I have space to move stuff about and apply an epoxy paint I have discovered. At the moment I am stopping my tools going rusty with several tubs of moisture absorbent scattered around the place!