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Post by sorted on Mar 13, 2021 22:53:04 GMT 1
Only car I ever worked on that was easier than these for a clutch was the old Triumph 1300 fwd version.
You removed a cover inside the car, removed gearbox end plate and used a slide hammer to remove the input shaft. Then a tin cover exposed the clutch which was changed under the bonnet, you never had to go underneath or even jack it up.
In fact you could rebuild the whole gearbox sat in the passenger seat!
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Post by Noberator on Mar 14, 2021 14:18:31 GMT 1
At the age of 54 having passed my test at 17 I can honestly say I've never done a clutch on my own cars ever (I've experience clutch slip on remapped cars tho), at 20K miles - it also had an appetite for clutch cables too. Haven't seen one of those in a long time. Can't be many left now can there? IIRC they didn't fair to good in crashes.
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Post by Joepublic on Mar 14, 2021 15:27:13 GMT 1
At the age of 54 having passed my test at 17 I can honestly say I've never done a clutch on my own cars ever (I've experience clutch slip on remapped cars tho), at 20K miles - it also had an appetite for clutch cables too. Haven't seen one of those in a long time. Can't be many left now can there? IIRC they didn't fair to good in crashes. Regurgitated Fiat (but made so that Fiat bits won't fit) so I'm not surprised There's an eastern European owners club - Yugo, Lada, Moskovich, Skoda, Tatra, Trabant etc They quite often appeared on one of the old fb groups (Autoshite) that post ban I'm no longer a member of - you need commendations from lots of members to get back in
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Post by Rhubarb on Mar 14, 2021 18:53:57 GMT 1
Haven't seen one of those in a long time. Can't be many left now can there? IIRC they didn't fair to good in crashes. Regurgitated Fiat (but made so that Fiat bits won't fit) so I'm not surprised There's an eastern European owners club - Yugo, Lada, Moskovich, Skoda, Tatra, Trabant etc They quite often appeared on one of the old fb groups (Autoshite) that post ban I'm no longer a member of - you need commendations from lots of members to get back in My ex wife had 2 Yugos when she was young.
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Post by Joepublic on Mar 14, 2021 19:45:07 GMT 1
Regurgitated Fiat (but made so that Fiat bits won't fit) so I'm not surprised There's an eastern European owners club - Yugo, Lada, Moskovich, Skoda, Tatra, Trabant etc They quite often appeared on one of the old fb groups (Autoshite) that post ban I'm no longer a member of - you need commendations from lots of members to get back in My ex wife had 2 Yugos when she was young. I've just joined a couple of groups on fb, £7250 for a Trabant FFS! www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/271176721059796/
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Post by steve on Mar 14, 2021 20:55:54 GMT 1
I built a kit car with the 1.8 Cavalier engine around 20 years ago which I still have, unfortunately uses a Carlton gearbox so clutch changes wouldn't be that easy.
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Post by remmington on Mar 14, 2021 21:00:08 GMT 1
Trabant - twin cylinder 500/600cc two stroke (real smoker). In 1989>1991 they started fitting 1.1ltr VW Polo four cylinder four stroke engines. The 1990 one on FB - must have been one of the last produced (one with a proper engine?). Duroplast body all the jokes were about (compressed cardboard) - was infact the best part about it - cotton or wool pressed into phenol resins. Which did not yellow like GRP. The bodies turned out to last too long in fact Quote ex Google "Duroplast has limited possibilities for efficient disposal. As discarded Trabants began to fill junkyards, creative solutions sprung up for disposing of them. One of these was developed by a Berlin biotechnology company, which experimented with a bacterium to consume the body in twenty days. In the late 1990s, the same Trabant factory in Zwickau developed a solution for disposing of the Duroplast shells by shredding them and using them as an aggregate in cement blocks for pavement construction." Never been in one or seen one in the flesh - but I did do a study/essay on them at school in 1979 ish. They wanted me to write about the "cold war". Everybody elses parents were posh and well educated - my Dad was a car mechinic - he had a book about Soviet/German "peoples cars" and I copied all the info out of it for my essay - got an B+ for my efforts. Trabant derived from the German word "drabant" which means "companion". I think they are collectable - not for the automotive design - they more symbolise the falling of the Berlin wall in 1989. When they knocked the wall down - there were thousands of these Trabants just dumped/lying about in East Germany because they could not/did not recycle them - as they were not made of steel and had no scrap value.
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Post by remmington on Mar 14, 2021 21:45:56 GMT 1
Trabant second use:
Rusky who works for me describes them as the "chicken coop of choice" - apparently in the village/town he was born in - that is what they used dead Trabants for. Park them up - open front windows - remove rear seat pallet - fill boot with straw. Apparently they have a bit of pipe behind the rear seats not a panel - the chickens would perch on this bit of pipe.
Then open boot lid and collect your eggs.
He reckons after decades of chickens pooping in them - they used to self combust - just catch alight on hot days - the body shells would burn for hours.
He also reckons the best thing about them is rear boot lid hinges - it is the only moving part on the whole car that needs to work. It is said they used to come out of the factory with boot lid hinges slared thick with axle grease - in prepartion for their second useful life!
He reckons his Grandmother was "posh" as she had the key for the bootlid on her chicken hutch - all the neighbours had concrete blocks rested on the boot lids to keep them down.
I like talking to Rusky about his childhood "did the foxes kill your chickens?". Not sure - I was more worried about the "wolves and bears eating me!"
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Post by Noberator on Mar 14, 2021 22:51:42 GMT 1
Haven't seen one of those in a long time. Can't be many left now can there? IIRC they didn't fair to good in crashes. (but made so that Fiat bits won't fit) so I'm not surprised There's an eastern European owners club - Yugo, Lada, Moskovich, Skoda, Tatra, Trabant etc They quite often appeared on one of the old fb groups (Autoshite) that post ban I'm no longer a member of - you need commendations from lots of members to get back in Yes it was based on a Fiat 128.
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Post by valhalla on Mar 15, 2021 1:05:34 GMT 1
My Mum had a Yugo 45 from new. It lasted about 5years.
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Post by valhalla on Mar 15, 2021 1:08:51 GMT 1
By the way, I have a bottle of genuine Yugoslavian white wine on my sideboard in the kitchen. Not many of these around either, but as something with "Product of Yugoslavia" on the label, it must be worth a fortune. Made in 1991, so it says.
Then again....
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Post by remmington on Mar 15, 2021 1:56:43 GMT 1
By the way, I have a bottle of genuine Yugoslavian white wine on my sideboard in the kitchen. Not many of these around either, but as something with "Product of Yugoslavia" on the label, it must be worth a fortune. Made in 1991, so it says.
Then again.... Sadly the bottle of Yugoslavian wine will be so sweet - like desert wine - it won't be worth drinking. My eldest Son who is a Met policeman married a refugee from the wars in the former Yugoslavia - she went to Finland then to the UK - she is a hospital Pharmacist now. Even she wont drink the sh#te. I like white wine - but this stuff is normally just too sweet to be nice.... It is a bit like - someone giving you tea with sugar in it - when you don't have sugar in your tea - it sort of does not taste sweet - it just tastes wrong. If you understand what I poorly trying to explain?
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Post by trickydicky on Mar 15, 2021 12:33:51 GMT 1
I once got completely plastered drinking Yugoslavian Slivovitz with some Croatian mates of mine 🤢
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Post by Karl on Mar 15, 2021 17:32:49 GMT 1
Feel like I’ve missed out never done a clutch on a old Astra/nova or cavalier
They were around when I started too
41 now
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Post by rhyds on Mar 15, 2021 18:24:06 GMT 1
Feel like I’ve missed out never done a clutch on a old Astra/nova or cavalier They were around when I started too 41 now Tell you what, I'll buy one, burn the clutch out, and limp it down to you for a fun saturday morning!
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