Unparallel Renault 16 Happenings

[Junkman]

Renault had the bible in the form of the PR900 if you ever get a chance to buy one they are an excellent book to have.

Errrr...what???

[Junkman]

What would your ultimate spec 16 be (model year and variant)? Might well be the one you have!

Yes, I like the early ones best. However, a TX has its advantages, but if I wanted a faster car than the one I have, I'd probably go further than a TX.

Them renaught engines.. I had a 17 on an old L , were quite a design for the time ?.Inclined valves, hemi head ..

Mine is still cheerfully hemifree. That came a year later with the TS.

[Junkman]

I do love a good 16 but the parts supply thing isn't ringing any bells. I was parts manager in a Renault / Vauxhall dealers in the mid 80's and you just went through the PR900 and stocked what you thought you could shift.8.

Had you been a Renault parts manager twenty years before that, you, too, could have enjoyed a pioneering computerised parts supply system. A computer was something only NASA had until then and they bragged that theirs was so small that it actually fitted in one building. By the mid 80s it was long since history.

[Junkman]

I did some research and now bought me a P. R. 820 dernière édition, which covers the R1150s from 1965 to 1970 and is written in four languages and English.



It'll probably make for interesting bedtime reading, since the Renault part numbers will help the exact square root of fuck all nowadays.

It's amazing what pops up occasionally on Mongbay.uk, though. I just snatched a NOS RH sill for 35 BIN OBO (obviously without wasting any time to put in an OBO) and a pair of NOS Boge front shocks for 25 BIN.

[CLINT]

Have you got any special Renault screwdrivers though?

[panhard65]

Renault were pretty good for keeping part numbers the small sump washer has only recently changed part number. I had a look at my PR900 this morning and it is from '93 but still has some 16 stuff (not the R1150 though) It is basically a quick reference for most common parts and used to be so much quicker than the microfiche.

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[Junkman]

Getting R16 bits is generally not too big a problem, unless it's an R1150 from 1965-1967. When they expanded the lineup in 1968 with the TS, they gave the car a complete once over. Since not really that much was changed after that, the 1967 and earlier ones are the orphans of the bunch when it comes to spare parts. You will notice that most available parts are listed as 1968-1980 and not a lot of them are backwards compatible. Initially I thought what the hell, this is just a mistake in the listings, and ordered them, just to find out that they were indeed completely different from what I needed. A mistake is sometimes also made the other way around, some parts are listed 1965-1980 because the sellers are unaware that they don't fit the pre 1968 cars. One has to be very careful when ordering bits for a 1965-1967, but it wouldn't be really me if I'd not take on the challenge. Driving an early R1150 practically as a daily is considered bonkers even in hardcore R16 circles and I'm damn proud of that.

[Junkman]

Have you got any special Renault screwdrivers though?

Sadly not. I have one that coincidentally works for the weird screws they used for attaching e.g. the scuttle panel, but I'd love to have the genuine Renault one.

[Junkman]

Right.
I got two tins of brake calipers.



They are the correct one for my car, which is fitted with incorrect ones.
The tinned ones don't have bleed nipples. So I asked which size and type they are on two forums catering for such cars. This means, I had only one question.

On both forums I was told to take them to my local brake place and they'll sort me out there. Consequently I have two questions now.

1. What is the size and type of the required bleed nipples?

OR

2. Where is my local brake place?

Sometimes I'm just very, very tired. Tired and weary. Indeed.

[Eddie Honda]

Perhaps measuring the holes in what you have deftly hidden from view in those tins-of-no-relevance would yield an answer?

FFS, at least throw us a bone.