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DFD702K.
Jun 24, 2020 10:45:22 GMT
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Post by rosieuk on Jun 24, 2020 10:45:22 GMT
Looks likely I'm going to be swapping the Wolseley for a Moskvich of all things - or buying the moskvich and trying to crowd fund the Wolseley restoration and conversion to supercharged diesel. The Wolseley doesn't actually look that bad but its just tatty - needs a respray, interior work including repairing drivers seat, body repairs and other bits.
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Post by dave1800 on Jun 25, 2020 2:54:43 GMT
Hi Rosie
What transmission would you use with the diesel engine?
David
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DFD702K.
Oct 31, 2020 19:25:00 GMT
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Post by rosieuk on Oct 31, 2020 19:25:00 GMT
Hi,
As far as the transmission it looks like the sump should be a match for the in sump transmission of the ADO17 by shape but I'm not sure until I'm able to look at it - and at the moment it's completely academic anyway given what's happened recently. Given the fact that the Six and 18/85 use exactly the same transmission down to the ratios, I'd be surprised that there might be more than one design of engine block between the diesel and the petrol since the injectors seem to be in the spark plug holes.
A problem might be the ratio of the transmission/fd because I am guessing that the diesel version of the 1800B doesn't rev as highly and has a completely different torque band, although that might be somewhat compensated for by the supercharger.
Another issue is cold starting - you can get heating elements that go into the intake manifold of diesel pickups that preheat the intake air instead of the pin type heat plugs that diesels like the XUDT etc used to use amongst others, it'd be a matter of making a suitable intake and control circuit etc.. But that should be enough for UK grade cold weather - since an 1800 diesel Marina, cold soaked, can be started apparently with the judicious application of a hairdryer into the intake - until suitably warmed.
As I said, pretty much academic since the black car is held together by rust, force of habit, and bathroom sealant to keep the water out. The police have looked at it and impressed they were not. Its certainly not safe on the road when you can put a thumb through the sill.
At the moment I don't have a working clutch thanks to road debris damaging hydraulics and no apparent way of getting it repaired because of all the delayed MOT havoc around here - I suspect a pinhole leak in the hydraulics somewhere which will need to be repaired, plugged and then bled.
The situation with the black car has done so much damage to my health I need to concentrate on that, lost 10kg weight due to stress and also other serious issues as a result - ironically I wouldn't have even gone near it but for the other sellers utter disinterest in ebay regs and unpleasant attitude re the fact I wanted to pay by card to get purchase protection - not by bank transfer - ironic really.
Im remarkably tired of the human race in general at present - there are good people around but I'm finding they're harder and harder to find. This cv19 has really seemed to bring out the worst in a collective & definitely a legislative basis - except for Ardern in NZ and the attitude of the Ghanaian president, to paraphrase "we know how to fix the economy, we don't know how to bring humans back to life. So currently we're concentrating on the humans and the economy can for the moment get stuffed".
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