1968 Austin 1100 Mk1 (Take 2)
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Re: 1968 Austin 1100 Mk1 (Take 2)
Riveting is almost too easy to do, you think it'd be more difficult & wonder if you've done it right.
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Re: 1968 Austin 1100 Mk1 (Take 2)
Rubber spiders knocking?SiC wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:39 pmWhat are my chief worries going to be on this?fried onions wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:34 pm I think that will be the least of your worries with this car.
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Re: 1968 Austin 1100 Mk1 (Take 2)
You'll have to enlighten me on what rubber spiders are. Displacers?Eddie Honda wrote:Rubber spiders knocking?SiC wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:39 pmWhat are my chief worries going to be on this?fried onions wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:34 pm I think that will be the least of your worries with this car.
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Re: 1968 Austin 1100 Mk1 (Take 2)
Nah, the inboard driveshaft joints. Y'know, the rubber crosses used before they moved onto pot joints.
Oil would invariably leak onto them and they'd swell up. Aftermarket alternative was made of Delrin.
Oil would invariably leak onto them and they'd swell up. Aftermarket alternative was made of Delrin.
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Re: 1968 Austin 1100 Mk1 (Take 2)
Ah yeah I know exactly the ones you mean. When they go apparently they're pretty efficient at eating through the gearbox casing.Eddie Honda wrote:Nah, the inboard driveshaft joints. Y'know, the rubber crosses used before they moved onto pot joints.
Oil would invariably leak onto them and they'd swell up. Aftermarket alternative was made of Delrin.
One side has replaced with new ( ) and the other looks original. I'm not sure how easy the bearing ones are to get nowadays.
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Re: 1968 Austin 1100 Mk1 (Take 2)
Yes, these bastards
Only surpassed in shitness by piss-poor rubber doughnuts on Hillman Imps and Triumph GT6s.
Only surpassed in shitness by piss-poor rubber doughnuts on Hillman Imps and Triumph GT6s.
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Re: 1968 Austin 1100 Mk1 (Take 2)
Yep, 1100's were shit. Fair to say that it was corrosion which finished most of them off more than anything mechanical, hence the Magenta.
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Re: 1968 Austin 1100 Mk1 (Take 2)
Not that shit. Could be flung round corners swift enough and still hold their own (once up to speed) many years later. Looks good in its Italian suit and not the automotive potato that the 'leggy was.
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Re: 1968 Austin 1100 Mk1 (Take 2)
They've never been a favourite of mine but I do like to see them about and being fettled like this one is. They were big-selling cars, no mistake, even well into their production life and represented a brief period when BMC were as good as anything Europe could do in the volume market. I wouldn't have thought equivalent Renault, Simca or Fiat offerings would have fared any better in the rust stakes had they been as numerous over here. ADO16s were notoriously neglected by the kind of buyers who hardly bothered with minimal 100E, Minor or A35 servicing at sufficiently regular intervals and I recall many of them that were polished to death but completely and utterly ignored underneath. Foreign stuff tended to be bought by more enthusiastic types when there was a healthy chunk of import duty involved.
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Re: 1968 Austin 1100 Mk1 (Take 2)
I can't say they're shit or not as, despite being under two of them for a fair old bit, I've yet to drive one...
Yes they did like to rust but if BMC really wanted (or afforded) to, those rust traps easily could have been designed out on the MK2. But then it's not as if other cars of the era were that much better. Just their rust traps were easier to repair and also with so many ado16 about, made little sense to repair.
Exactly the same problem as of now currently with late 90s/early 00s cars. The Focus MK1/306/etc are very good cars (practicality, reliability, efficiency, etc), but when they rot there isn't enough value of emotional attachment in them (because "a car") to justify saving them. Hence their numbers are thinning out really rapidly now. Journeyman cars that were built in the millions.
I'd still had preferred a Mini but I'd of course had to spend twice what I did for this for a 60s one and it'd be delivered as boxes of bits!
Given this is a Scottish car, it's quite a miracle it's still here over 50 years later!
Yes they did like to rust but if BMC really wanted (or afforded) to, those rust traps easily could have been designed out on the MK2. But then it's not as if other cars of the era were that much better. Just their rust traps were easier to repair and also with so many ado16 about, made little sense to repair.
Exactly the same problem as of now currently with late 90s/early 00s cars. The Focus MK1/306/etc are very good cars (practicality, reliability, efficiency, etc), but when they rot there isn't enough value of emotional attachment in them (because "a car") to justify saving them. Hence their numbers are thinning out really rapidly now. Journeyman cars that were built in the millions.
I'd still had preferred a Mini but I'd of course had to spend twice what I did for this for a 60s one and it'd be delivered as boxes of bits!
Given this is a Scottish car, it's quite a miracle it's still here over 50 years later!