Spent a little bit of time getting BOB running nicely.
When driving down from Bundaberg (4 hour trip) things didn't seem 100%. Stalled a couple of times.
Turned out this was probably just the remnants of the 2-year old fuel.
Nevertheless i ordered all new ignition parts and some iridium plugs on 25% discount.
Plugs went in first with new cap and rotor arm. Not a huge difference to be seen.
Couple of weeks later changed points and condensor. Suddenly a lot of the lumpiness at idle smoothed out and there was a noticeable power increase. Dwell angle still spot on, but I think the old points were never alligned perfectly.
I'm getting another mile per gallon and have a new improved top speed. Bonus!
Got the wheel alignment sorted by the local tyre guy, too. He worked wonders and the car's handling much better now.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Guess who's back?
After two years 'rest' in the in-laws shed the time came to resurrect the Big Orange Bus.
Oh, yes. BOB's back!
Waking up the neighbours never felt so good.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Fun and brake fluid...
Check my other blog to see the fun we had this week!
>clicky<
It seems that a 10 year old Land Rover can actually require more ongoing maintenance than a 30 year old Triumph after all...
(actually it's been great fun!)
>clicky<
It seems that a 10 year old Land Rover can actually require more ongoing maintenance than a 30 year old Triumph after all...
(actually it's been great fun!)
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Up and running and of no fixed abode
Both me and the website that is.
http://ofnofixedabode.wordpress.com
... see you again in 6 months (or more).
http://ofnofixedabode.wordpress.com
... see you again in 6 months (or more).
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Roll over BOB ... make way for The Bench
Oh lordy, it's confession time.
BOB's been a brilliant car, that I can't deny. In four years of ownership and about 30,000 miles (give or take some odometer error) of use he's not once caused a serious problem. Since the engine transplant a little over a year ago, he's taken us on a couple of epic fully-loaded trips - from Tassie up to our new home in Melbourne, west out to South Australia, north up to New South Wales, and on loads of day trips into the Victorian bush. In 15,000 miles he's required just one pint of oil!
But sadly, while BOB makes light work of highways, munches up the mountain roads and is pretty capable on the odd dirt track, satisfying as he is, there are some parts he just can't reach. And this is why he's being laid up to rest ... temporarily of course.
Ella and I have been planning a little outback adventure that requires a tad more ground clearance and a little extra space. So here's BOB's stablemate. A Land Rover Defender 110 TD5 with LPG and more bells buzzers than you could ring and buzz in an entire month of sunny Sundays.
Introducing, The Bench!
Anyway, there's another website in the making where you can find out the details of our adventure (and all the technical details on the heavily modified Bench) ... i'll post a link once it's worth viewing.
BOB drove north in convoy with The Bench last week. We travelled from Melbourne to Canberra to Sydney to Brisbane to Bundaberg visiting family along the way. BOB is now tucked up in the shed to be given the occasional run while we're away. I think it's going to be the longest I haven't driven a Triumph for in about seven years!
BOB's been a brilliant car, that I can't deny. In four years of ownership and about 30,000 miles (give or take some odometer error) of use he's not once caused a serious problem. Since the engine transplant a little over a year ago, he's taken us on a couple of epic fully-loaded trips - from Tassie up to our new home in Melbourne, west out to South Australia, north up to New South Wales, and on loads of day trips into the Victorian bush. In 15,000 miles he's required just one pint of oil!
But sadly, while BOB makes light work of highways, munches up the mountain roads and is pretty capable on the odd dirt track, satisfying as he is, there are some parts he just can't reach. And this is why he's being laid up to rest ... temporarily of course.
Ella and I have been planning a little outback adventure that requires a tad more ground clearance and a little extra space. So here's BOB's stablemate. A Land Rover Defender 110 TD5 with LPG and more bells buzzers than you could ring and buzz in an entire month of sunny Sundays.
Introducing, The Bench!
Anyway, there's another website in the making where you can find out the details of our adventure (and all the technical details on the heavily modified Bench) ... i'll post a link once it's worth viewing.
BOB drove north in convoy with The Bench last week. We travelled from Melbourne to Canberra to Sydney to Brisbane to Bundaberg visiting family along the way. BOB is now tucked up in the shed to be given the occasional run while we're away. I think it's going to be the longest I haven't driven a Triumph for in about seven years!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Wee Irish fella blocking my route to work!
Bloody Bernie Ecclestone's mob are ruining my walk to work!
As I may have mentioned before I'm doing rather a lot of walking/running at the moment in preparation for a ***monster endurance event***.
Training includes walking to work through Albert Park, home of the Melbourne Grand Prix. Most of the year of course this is just a great big park with some curvy bits of road. There are cricket pitches, dogs, etc. The pit stop buildings are used as a sports halls (how Australian!).
The last couple of weeks it's been madness though, lorries coming and going. It's making walking to work relatively hazardous, but it is interesting to see just how much preparation goes into setting the venue up.
The Grand Prix is the same weekend i'm doing the 100km walk ... in about six weeks' time.
Anyway here's some (poor quality) phone photos of the preparation.
Not often you see a ticket maching next to the pit lane is it?
Or such slow
corners on a racetrack? (they're thinking about a Le Mans style start this year apparently...)
corners on a racetrack? (they're thinking about a Le Mans style start this year apparently...)
Here's the inside of the pit garages. If you look closely you can see a piece of Schumacher's old chewing gum on the floor.
This guy looked like he was a bit over the whole thing
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Chrome blind in the sunshine
It was a lovely sunny day today, perfect weather for a Triumph concours - if you like that sort of thing. I always get a bit bored looking at shiny cars, most of which never get dirty or red-lined, but I'd originally hoped to meet up with a CT forum member called Glen (or Cowman on the forum). However, he was called to Country Fire Authority duty fighting fires just north of Melbourne. I hope that's all going well for him.
So I went along anyway, even washing BOB first - that's twice this year already!
Unsurprisingly there were lots of shiny TRs and Stags, plus a Vitesse, 12/50 Herald a few Sptifires and GT6. There was a line up of competition cars, too:
I didn't hang around for the concours announcements but the car of the show IMHO was this TR Italia - nice:
There were quite a few saloons around, including an LPG with L plates, and this purple one! (not a big fan of colour-coding myself).
There was only one Mk1 that I noticed. It was white, like so many others, but had a rather unusual take on EFI under the hood...
After half an hour or so I was getting chrome blindness as usual and ready to head home. Then I met a fella called Fraser who was sheltering from the sun next to his standard tune Mk2 TC that he runs at hillclimbs all over the state.
Before I knew it we'd been waffling away for over an hour about all things Triumph and I was getting increasingly keen on the idea of a bit of hillclimbing/sprint action. I know I've been saying this for a while, but I've been put off by the assumption i'd need to cross and dot all kinds of scrutineering Ts and Is ... but Fraser's experience seems to have been quite simple: a licence, a helmet, a fire extinguisher (already in place anyway) and I'm certified to go and risk my own life as much as I like in time trial based tomfoolery... whyever not?
So I went along anyway, even washing BOB first - that's twice this year already!
Unsurprisingly there were lots of shiny TRs and Stags, plus a Vitesse, 12/50 Herald a few Sptifires and GT6. There was a line up of competition cars, too:
I didn't hang around for the concours announcements but the car of the show IMHO was this TR Italia - nice:
There were quite a few saloons around, including an LPG with L plates, and this purple one! (not a big fan of colour-coding myself).
There was only one Mk1 that I noticed. It was white, like so many others, but had a rather unusual take on EFI under the hood...
After half an hour or so I was getting chrome blindness as usual and ready to head home. Then I met a fella called Fraser who was sheltering from the sun next to his standard tune Mk2 TC that he runs at hillclimbs all over the state.
Before I knew it we'd been waffling away for over an hour about all things Triumph and I was getting increasingly keen on the idea of a bit of hillclimbing/sprint action. I know I've been saying this for a while, but I've been put off by the assumption i'd need to cross and dot all kinds of scrutineering Ts and Is ... but Fraser's experience seems to have been quite simple: a licence, a helmet, a fire extinguisher (already in place anyway) and I'm certified to go and risk my own life as much as I like in time trial based tomfoolery... whyever not?
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